He is a eunuch-bashaw, that has charge of the women and governs all their public affairs, because he is not able to do them any considerable private services.

Phædra's arms, and scorn'd the proffer'd joy, It had not moved your wonder to have seen An eunuch fly from an enamour'd queen: How would it please,

Soon after my arrival at Tangier, the English letter-boat, Carreo Ingles, master, Matteo Attalya, brought twelve eunuch slaves, African youths, from Gibraltar.