CHAPTER 40With these words, having afforded me clear evidence their statecalled for more substantial pleasures, the impudicious creaturesrose and made me mount upon a large chair, my forearms leaning uponits back, my knees propped upon its arms, and my behind arched sothat it was prominently thrust toward them. I was no sooner placedin this attitude than they stepped out of their breeches, tucked uptheir shirts, and save for their shoes, they thus discoveredthemselves completely naked from the waist down; they exhibitedthemselves to me, passed several times to and fro before my eyes,making boastful display of their behinds of which they wereoverweeningly proud, for, they declared, they had parts farsuperior to anything I could offer; indeed, each was womanishlymade in this region: 'twas es
