Writing in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, Gordon Williams sees Aubrey's "wanton sport" in a 1641 mention of moulding cocklebread, a "sexual sense" in a prayer mentioning the practice from 1683, and considers it "transparent" in the 1683 Fifteen Real Conforts Of Matrimony which "tells how 'Mrs.
In A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, Gordon Williams notes Aubrey's "wanton play" in a 1641 reference to shaping cocklebread, finds a "sexual connotation" in a prayer from 1683, and perceives it as "obvious" in the 1683 Fifteen Real Conforts Of Matrimony which discusses how "Mrs.