Pliny pretends to have seen Lucius Cossitius, who from a woman was turned into a man upon her very wedding-day.

Pontanus and others report the like metamorphosis to have happened in these latter days in Italy.

And, through the vehement desire of him and his mother: "Volta puer solvit, quae foemina voverat, Iphis." Myself passing by Vitry le Francois, saw a man the Bishop of Soissons had, in confirmation, called Germain, whom all the inhabitants of the place had known to be a girl till two-and-twenty years of age, called Mary.

He was, at the time of my being there, very full of beard, old, and not married.

He told us, that by straining himself in a leap his male organs came out; and the girls of that place have, to this day, a song, wherein they advise one another not to take too great strides, for fear of being turned into men, as Mary Germain was.