"His genius being addicted to Poetry" he published his first poetical and satirical piece which Winstanley recorded as "Venus Cabinet Unlock'd". This may be a reference to Giovanni Benedetto Sinibaldi's "The cabinet of Venus unlocked, and her secrets laid open. Being a translation of part of Sinibaldus, his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things out of other Latin authors, never before in English" (London: Philip Briggs, 1658). Head married around that time. A second addiction to gambling cost him the profit he made as an author and with his shop.