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A bavvd A vertuous bawd, a modest bawd: as shee deserves, reproove, or else applaud. Written by John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1635
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STC 23731; ESTC S111351
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warehouse if the Informer or Constable doe light upon one of her conceal'd dryfats Punchions fardils or naughtie packs and having seiz'd it by his office honestly laid it up safe in the storehouse of Bridewel yet the Bawd wil so cōpound in the busines that for a smal toy and a little sufferance she 'l redeeme the Commodity have her ware again in her owne hands A Bawd is no deceiver of her customers for what she promiseth shee will performe as for example If shee take a fee to helpe a man to a Whore shee will not cheat him and bring him an honest woman a bargaines a bargaine and shee will not saile you in a tittle shee plainly and openly shewes her selfe what shee is shee doth not dissemble or hide her function from her clyents under the veile of hypocrysie and for her creatures that live under her shee hath taught them their Art whereby they may live another day when shee is dead and rotten and as they have their maintenance by her instruction under her protection so it is fit that in requitall of her paines she should pick a revenue out of their commings in shee hath good presidents out of famous Authors for it an old brave fellow tooke great paines in teaching of his Cuthorse and the beast was so thankfull for it that hee got his masters provender and his owne both many yeeres after If a man teach an Ape to doe trickes the honest Ape will maintaine him for it I have seene a Hare get her master and dames living with playing on a Tabor The very Baboones are grave examples in this kind Tumblers boyes and sometimes their wives doe teach us this duty and the ignorant Puppets doe allow their maker and masters meat drinke and cloath For mine owne part If I teach my man to row I will have for my paines the greatest part of the profit If I dig or plow and cast my Seed into the ground I will expect the benefit of the Crop If I plant or grasse I should thinke I had but hard measure if I should not feed vpon the fruit of my labour By this consequence it is reason that a Bawd should reape where she hath sowne and eate and live vpon such fruit as shee hath planted To close up all the Summe of all is this I 'le end my Booke as Ovid ended his So long as on the Poles the spangled firmament shall whirle So long as Procreation shall beget a Boy or Girle So long as winter shall be cold or Summer shall be hot So long as poverty and spight shall be true Vertues lot When Phoebus in the West shall rise and in the East shall set When children on their mothers their owne fathers shall beget Then shall this Booke or Bawd lye dead and never till that day Shall Booke or Bawd or Bawd or Booke be scarse if men will pay Till Sun and Moone shall cease to shine and all the World lye wast So long his booke or else a Bawd I 'me sure so long shall last FINIS A Common Whore With all these graces grac'd Shee 's very honest beautifull and chaste Written By IOHN TAYLOR Printed at London for Henry Gosson 1635. * Witnesse my paper Boat * Hen. Smith in his Treat of Herodot cap. 38 pag 303. * Cornelius Agrippa in his vanity of Sciences * Idem a Lucrece was first maried to her own brother the sonne of Pope Aleaxander the sixt she being daughter to the said pope and daughter in law to him by the marriage with his son And being concubine to the said Pope he caused her after his sonne her husbands death to be married to three princes one after another First to Duke Iohn Sforza Secondly to Lewis sonne to Alphonfus King of Arragon Thirdly to Alphonsus D. Est Duke of Ferara b Her name was Constancia she was married to a Duke named Sforza but the Pope her father poysoned her because he could not lawfully enioy her Also for the like be poysoned his sister b A flattering hireling Preacher is a Bawd to the vices of his surly Patron and an hypocriticall conniver at the crying sinnes of his Audience * The Devill is the chiefe Bawd * A Glister of Holy water I thinke would better drive out the Devill * Emperours have beene Bawdes * A King of Castile or Spaine Bawd to his owne wife * No toleration * A necessary male for a man to trusse up his trinkets is a A Bawd a Gramarian b An Astronomer c A Logician d Mounthink Rarearcher or Landloper e Arithmatick a Geometry b Musicke c Poetry a Painting b Physicke and Chirurgery c Palmestry and Fortune-telling d Mercer a Grocer c Fish-mongers and Fishermen d Goldsmith * All vices are in high account and great respect but onely Bawds occupation yet many men have an itching desire in private to that which he will condemne in publike * The patience of a Bawd a The necessity of a Bavvd b The equity of a Bawd c The charity of a Bawd d The Philosophy of a Bawd * The civility of a Bawd * The temperance of a Bawd * The chastity of a Bawd * The conscience and religion of a Bawd * Of mens money * Crosse and Pyle * A Bawd is an excellent Chimmist a The industry and vigilancy of a Bawd b Or Punckes c A Bawd a skilfull Navigaton d The plaine dealing of a Bawd e A Bawd hath common sence and reason to take her part or share in her profession