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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19558	Amanda: or, The reformed whore. Composed, and made by Thomas Cranley gent. now a prisoner in the Kings-bench, Anno Dom. 1635	Cranley, Thomas, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 5988; ESTC S118905	47,524	98

and told her that if she were at leasure if it pleased her I would come over the way to her she told me I should be welcome and desired me to come With that going to my Study and taking some idle pamphlets that I had there I went unto the house where she lay she kindly met me at the doore and so conducted me to her chamber where with reading sometimes and sometimes with talking we spent a good part of the afternoone and after many questions asked her I perceived that a little siege would batter the fortresse of her honesty and understood by her that her meanes was small and her friends not many and her selfe as she seemed willing to take any honest course that should sute with the credite of a Gentlewoman with many other speeches to that purpose but taking leave of her for that time she intreated me that I would be no stranger at her Chamber for that she should take it very kindly if I would come and sit with her at my leasure times when I had nothing else to doe which I promised her to performe But afterwards considering with my selfe if I should often resort thither it might be a cause that some malignant tongue would speake worse of me then I deserved and thereby draw a scandall upon my selfe which once gotten would not be easily shaken off I did therefore forbeare going to her chamber yet every day she sitting in the Embroyderers roome we had conference together and so continued our acquayntance where often talking with her at length she told me she was to goe from thence and to lie in the Towne and asked me if I did not goe sometimes abroad in the City I answered her I did and desired that if she pleased to tell me where she lay in the Towne I would make bold to visit her at her lodging she told me where I should finde her who shortly after going from the place where she then lay sent a note in writing intreating me not to forget my promise to visit her at her lodging and therein set downe the place where I should enquire for her It was not long after but I had occasion to goe into London in company of another Gentleman and passing neere the place where she lay determined to goe visit her and so enquiring for her at her lodging we were told that she lay there but she was that day abroad at dinner with certaine Gentlemen but where or with whom they knew not whereupon we returning thence it came in our minds to goe to a Taverne not farre off to drinke a pint of Wine and if occasion served to enquire whether such a Gentlewoman did lie in the streete and what she was where comming in we were brought into a little roome sitting our company where as we were drinking of our Wine we heard musicke and much mirth in the next roome unto us and enquiring what company was there we understood that there were two or three Gentlewomen with divers gallants in their company that dyned there that day but what they were we could by no meanes understand whereupon I intreated one of the drawers to helpe me privately to a sight of them for I thought I did heare the voyce of one that I knew he presently brings me to a secret place where I might discover the whole company and amongst them all I perceived the same Gentlewoman that I came that day to visit and noteing her carriage with the rest of her associats she seemed to me more jocund merry and familiar than any woman respecting her honesty and her credit would have beene I desired the Gentleman that was with me that we might stay and see the conclusion and parting of that company who was contented and thereupon understanding that they intended to sup there we resolved to sup there also by our selves in the little roome where we were at the first placed by which meanes we both heard and saw most of their conversation presently after supper they dismissed their musicke and having all of them well steeped their braines in Wine they then began to shew of what metall they were made where after much rude and unseemely behaviour they discharged the house and went their way my friend and I having likewise payd our reckoning followed after them to see the uttermost event of this meeting they had not gone farre from the Taverne but the company parted and onely one Gentleman conducted my acquaintance to her lodging where so soone as we saw them to enter the house we betooke our selves likewise to our lodgings having by that daies worke sounded more of her disposition then I had done in all the time of my acquaintance before For whereas I was till then led by report and some suspition which I drew from my owne conjecture I now saw so much of her carriage that I could not conceive that her former report had wronged her Not many daies after I tooke an occasion to write unto her and the effect of my Letters was this That I had lately bin at her lodging to have seene her but could not be so happy as to finde her within therefore I desired in regard that I had not the priviledge to goe often abroad that she would give me leave to write unto her and withall that liberty in writing that she would not take any thing distastefully but to read it over with patience and deliberation and desired likewise her answer in writing This Letter I sent unto her and received an answer in writing that she was sorry that she was not at home at the time of my being there which if she had knowne of she would have remedyed and desired she might see me if I could coveniently otherwise if I would take the paines to write unto her she would be so farre from taking offence at any thing that I should write of that she would thinke her selfe much bound unto me for the same and did faithfully promise to reade it with patience and due consideration and withall desired me that I would write unto her in verse because it was a thing she much affected and would be pleasing unto her in the reading Having understood thus much by her answer I determined to use the strongest arguments that I could for her reformation hoping that my writing might perchance worke so much with her as it might bring her into a loathing of her former life and perswade her to such courses as might be more profitable both to her soule and body Wherefore taking some paines for her conversion I wrote these lines following and making them up in a little booke sent the same unto her the successe whereof you shall afterwards heare To the faire Amanda 1. BOld of thy promise and obliged word From which I doe presume thou wilt not start Whereby thou didst so willingly afford Acceptance of my lines with gentle heart And what I write to take is in good part This is one ground that

of straw 180. Where being full of aches sores and biles Thy beauty turned to a tawny hue And that consum'd which was so faire ere whiles Vnknowne of those that thee but lately knew As a just vengeance to thy merits due Breathest thy last beneath some open stall Or di'st diseased in an Hospitall 181. There lies thy pompe and glory in the dust Thy body cloth'd with rags and all too torne Thy flesh comsum'd and wasted by thy lust Loathed condemn'd disdain'd and held in scorne Not one of all thy friends for thee will mourne Nor hardly thinke thee worthy for to have To hide thy stinking corps a simple grave 182. Loe here Amanda view thy selfe at large Behold thy life and after that thy death Peruse each line and letter I thee charge Let it not be forgotten in a breath To thy best thoughts I doe the same bequeath Advisedly consider of the matter I tell thee what is true and scorne to flatter 183. And if it take effect as I desire And breede a sorrow for thy time mispent If it shall cause thee from thy course retire And be a meanes to make thy heart relent And be reform'd by my admonishment Assure thy selfe that thou hast gain'd a friend That shall not faile thee till his life doth end 184. For my sake therefore I adjure thee here To turne thy course and bend another way For thy friends sake to whom thou shouldst be deere Come home unto thy selfe and doe not stay For thine owne sake I charge thee to obey And in compassion of that soule of thine Live not in darknesse when the sunne doth shine 185. Pity thy yeeres that are but young and tender Pity thy fathers care thy mothers love For thy sad kindreds sorrow pity render Let thy acquaintance some compassion move Looke not still downe but raise thy thoughts above If no thing else prevaile let feare of God Worke thy conversion and his threatning rod. 186. Strive to regaine the honour thou hast lost And seeke thy ruin'd credit to repaire Thy conscience is benum'd with follies frost Let thy warme teares of sorrow thaw the ayre That chils thy heart with nipping cold despaire And so dissolve thy crusty yce of sinne That hot repentance may let mercy in 187. Redeeme the time that thou hast spent in vaine And persue honour as thou followd'st vice Although unwilling yet thy selfe constraine Against thy will to vertue be not nice Tire not in acting goodnesse twice or thrice But persevere from one unto another As happy daughter of a blessed mother 188. And when thou hast this little Pamphlet read And seene the scope whereto these lines doe tend Let them not passe an hower out of thy head Vntill thy sorrow make thy life amend And worke a reformation in the end Doe not oh doe not put them from thy heart But to thy sickly soule some helpe impart 189. Then shall my prayers flie aloft with thine And my desires seeke earnestly thy blisse Thy happinesse shall be to me as mine Thy godly sorrow for thy life amisse Shall breed such joy as none shall be like this The comfort that thy soule shall thereby taste Shall be a Crowne of glory at the last 190. In hope therefore of this my good successe And of a happy welcome to these lines Wishing thou mayst thy wicked lusts suppresse I leave thee unto him whose grace refines Praying his blessing unto these designes Heavens grant thee that which none on earth can give A life prepar'd to die a death to live When I had written these lines I made them up in a little booke and by a friend which I had sent them unto her lodging with a letter likewise to be delivered unto her both which my friend presented to her owne hands and she receiving of them thankfully read over the letter presently in his sight and told him that so soone as she had perused the booke which should not be long she would send her answer unto me and so my friend taking a courteous farewell left her and returned telling me of the kinde welcome both of the letter and the booke which I was glad to heare of and therefore hoped in a short time to receive her answer which I did wish might be according as I both expected and desired I wayted for her answer about ten daies and not hearing from her well knowing in that time she might at her leisure have read it over I began to wonder what the reason should be imagining that eyther she was loath to bestow so much paynes as to reade it or else having read it she was offended at it and being willing to be satisfied herein yet unwilling that she should take any notice of my desire I sent another friend not to her lodging but neere unto it to the end that I might be assured whether she still continued there or whether she were removed to any other place my friend taking occasion secretly to enquire of her understood by one of the neighbours that she kept her old lodging and that she had lately beene very sicke and was not then recovered Of which her sicknes when I understood I was in some hope that she had considered seriously on the contents of the booke and that it had wrought so farre with her that she had layd the same to her heart and was thereby drawne to a strict examination of her owne life which might be the meanes of troubling her conscience so farre as that it might breede a distemper in her body and so be the cause of impayring her health desirous therefore to understand how she digested it whether there were any other cause of her disease I sent my friend to her lodging to see how she did not taking any notice that I had knowne of her sicknesse and withall to excuse my not comming unto her all that time whither when he came he was willingly conducted into her chamber where she then lay in her bed and delivering his message unto her she told him that she had beene very ill and wonderfull desirous to see me and entreated him to signifie so much unto me and that she was minded to send a messenger unto me but that by reason of her sicknesse she knew not how conveniently to doe it not speaking one word unto him concerning the booke My friend not staying long with her and promisig to acquaint me with her desire departed and telling me what her request was and in vvhat case he found her I resolved vvithin fevv daies to visit her and accordingly within a day or two after I came unto her chamber where being entred I found her sitting in her chaire by the fire and weeping exceedingly I comming in so suddenly and she turning her head espying of me presently leapt out of her chaire and comming towards me tooke me by the hand and looking earnestly in my face she began to speake to me to this effect the substance whereof for memory sake I