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cause_n	great_a	life_n	see_v	3,300	5	3.3210	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67526	Youths safety: or, Advice to the younger sort, of either sex More valuable than gold. Laying open the wicked practices of the town-shifts, sharpers, sharks, beau's, sweeteners, rakes, intreaging town-jilts, to cheat, ruin and disgrace gentlemen, shop-keepers, apprentices, gentlewomen, servant-maids, &c. Serious reflections and good counsel, how they may know them, and avoid their snares. With their knavish-practices in gaming, and other matters worthy of note. By observation whereof, persons of either sex, may raise their fortunes. By J.W.	J. W.	1698 (1698)	Wing W76; ESTC R219267	52,150	90

other Devices to ensnare Young-men If he perceives they are not Amorous one way he attacks them another if Marriage charm not he has a Crack in a corner for him whom he calls Cousin by whose assistance he chains them to him or entangles them so fast in the Net of Flattery and Deceit till he can pluck their Plumes He denies not but she is a Married Woman though indeed there is nothing in it but this by another Statagem serves a turn for she being very ●ocose and familiar one or other of the Youngsters he brings her acquainted with will push on for a Favour as he foolishly terms it but she in the midst of yeilding puts on a Coy Look with what do ye mean by this rudeness Will struggle and pretends on a suddain all the unwillingness in the World if she picks not his Pocket she will be sure to get his Pocket-book or something that is remarkably known to be his which perhaps at that time he misses not nor does she give him time to do it for in a great huff with Threats and bent Brows sometimes forcing Tears which she has at command she flings away and if a Bully-Rock pretending to be her Husband enter not presently with a Sham-Constable and Warrant to demand Satisfaction for the Abuse done to his Wife to be sure within a Day or two the Youngman is sent for to the Tavern hemn'd in by two or three grim look'd Fellows charged with the rude Abuse which has made the Woman Miscarry and endangered her Life then threatned with abundance of hard Words mingled with dire Imprecations if he deny it they produce what she took from him as a demonstrable Witness So that at legth not knowing what to say or think of the matter he proposes to save his Reputation and the farther danger he may incur an Accommodation and so they fleece him of his ready Money Rings Watch c. but these wanting if of Age they take something in part and bring him into Bond which they have ready to fill up themselves for they are as fraid to have it known as he is for that they are sure will spoil their Market If this seems to be the last Stake then Mr. Shift leaves our Youngster if not when he hears of it he rages raves and storms at a prodigious rate vowing they shall repent putting such a Trick upon his Friend Then by degrees growing milder begins to chide the Youngman for being so unadvisedly rash when the truth is he went away and left them together to no other end then to bring this about And if before it was made up he had been sought to mediate the matter it would have been as hard to have found him as a Needle in a Bottle of Hay for he absented his Lodging and disguised himself not to be found and indeed it behoved him since he laid the Plot and comes in for two Thirds of the Profit Sometimes there is another Stratagem of this nature in the wind though the Youngman frolicks on a Barren Heath where nothing will grow yet the subtil Female will in a little time appear pregnant with a Cushion and sending for him to a Tavern or some other more convenient place with a He or She confident to back the Design and calls her Sister upon his first approach with a feigned Passion will burst into Tears sobbing and sighing under her Hood for a pretty space whilst the Youngman stands in admiration what should cause this sudden Passion and who this should be doubtful whither to advance or retreat the Dissembling Sorrowful Crack Companion intreats him to sit down and shutting the Door carefully listens as to be informed if any be near and then in a grave set Speech begins Sir do not you know my Sister here And when he protests he does not well continues he or she you did once to her Shame and the Disgrace of our Family never stained before though now perhaps you would willingly blot her out of your remembrance But that shall not excuse you nor serve your turn hold up your head Betty and let the Gentleman see your Face more plainly to refresh his treacherous Memory nay never blush for the matter what 's done cannot be recalled But one would have thought you might have been wiser before this had happened Upon this our seemingly distressed Damsel rises wipes her Eyes uncovers her Face and shews something like a great Belly and with a Sigh says Sir do you not know me I am sure by woful Experience I have cause to know you and shall to the last moment of my Life What you cannot call me to remembrance I 'l warant now I wish I had never seen your Eyes nor you mine And then she falls to weeping and wringing her Hands Well well says her Confident this is no jesting matter never mince it you know my Sister well enough you were introduced by such a one as a Lover but like an ungentile Wretch as you are over-powering the poor Creature with Drink that base Man withdrawing and leaving you together you rudely played a wild Freak see Sir pointing to her Belly the effect of your Frolicksomness Therefore to be short either Marry my Sister to repair her lost Honour and in some manner blot out the Stain you have cast on our Family or we will make not only the City but all England too hot to hold you The Youngman now calling something of the Face before him to mind and remembring his Folly stands as one Thunder-struck amazed and confounded not knowing what to reply whilst the pretended Sister enumerates what Matches she might have had and what mighty Fortunes this has hindered her of and to be brief if he have any thing of an Estate they terrify him for want of taking better Counsel into a ruinous and fatal Marriage if not which mostly succeeds he strains himself by all the ways he can it matters not to them whither lawful or unlawful to give her a present Sum of Money with a Bond or solemn Promise to maintain the Child at Nurse if it lives least his Friends knowing it he should be Disinherited or cast out of their Favour and the whole redound to his perpetual Disgrace and so for the present it is laid asleep but at length comes a Bill for the Charges of her Lying-in and a Child is borrowed of a conniving Nurse and produced whose Nursing he must be content to pay for though he got not one nor she never had any or he conceits worse will follow And out of this his supposed Friend has a considerable Snack These are not all the Intrigues to bubble Young-men and gull them out of their Money for sometimes walking together Sweeteners are laid by appointment in their way who purposely drop Money or Brass-Rings gilded and suddenly taking them up as if realy found our Hawks-eyed Shift steps forward and cryes halves Gentlemen you have found something and it is but reasonable we should see