Wherewithall shee barred and propped the doore, and came to me againe, and embracing me lovingly about the neck with both her armes, spake with a soft voice and said, I doe greatly feare to discover the Privities of this house, and to utter the secret mysteries of my dame.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
They were accompanied by a number of females who had their Privities covered with a kind of small mats.
"The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765"
J. E. Heeres
As touching the fifth article, which purported this in effect that I should not suffer the lady Elizabeth's Grace to have conference with any suspect person out of my hearing, that she do not by any means either receive or send any message, letter or token, to or from any manner of person, which, under your honourable corrections, must thus answer to that, as touching conference with suspected persons, if your Lordships mean strangers, and such as be not daily attending upon her person by your assents and Privities, with the help above said, I dare take upon me that to do.
"Studies from Court and Cloister"
J.M. Stone