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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13434	A common vvhore vvith all these graces grac'd: shee's very honest, beautifull and chaste. Written by Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1622 (1622)	STC 23742; ESTC S111365	15,048	33

Did cause the Bastard * Hercuier of the mighty Ioue To please his Iole he tooke a Wheele And laying by his Club did Spin and Reele Great loue himselfe could not this snare escape Lust led him on to many a shamelesse Rape Poore Hebe Hele * Jupiter transformd himselfe to all these shapes to attaine his desrie Danue and Europa Alemena Io Semele and Leada Antiopa Asterie Ganimede These and a number more his fancy fed To compasse which his shifts were manifold T' a Bull a Ram a Swan a showre of Golde To dreadfull Thunder and consuming Fire And all to quench his inward flames desire Apollo turn'd faire Daph●● into * The Bay tree or Lawrell Bay Because she from his Lust did flye away He lou'd his Hiacinct and his Coronis As feruently as Venus lou'd Adonis So much he from his Godhead did de●●ne That for a Wench he kept Adme●●s Kine And many other Gods haue gone aftray If all be true which Ouids Booke doth say Thus to fulfill their Lusts and win their Truls We see that these vngodly Gods were Guls. The mighty Captaine * Achilles who was flaine befotted to his Death for the loue of Polixena of the Mermidous Being Captiu'd to these base passions Met an vntimely vnexpected slaughter For faire Polixena King Priams Daughter Lucretia's Rape was Tarquins ouerthrowe Shame often payes the debt that sinne doth owe VVhot Philomela lost and Tereus wonne It causde the lustfull Father * Tereus K. of Thrace care of his own Son Itis made into py-meat by his wife Frogne eate his Sonne In this vice Nero tooke such beastly ioy He married was to Sporus a young Boy And P●riander * A Tyrant Prince in Corinth was with Lust so led He with Mellissa lay when she was Dead Pigmalion * Plutarte with an Image made of Stone Did Loue and lodge I 'le rather lye alone Aristophanes * Appius murthered himself because Virginias father had slaine her to free her frō his Lust joyn'd in Loue would be To a shee Asse but what an Asse was he A Roman Appius did in Iayle abide For Loue of faire Virginia where he dyde Our second Henry * K Henry the 2. King of England Aged Childish fond On the faire feature of faire Rosamond That it rais'd most vnnaturall hatefull strife Betwixt himselfe his Children * At Woodstocke and his wife The end of which was that the jealious Queene Did poyson * Mrs. Shore Rosamond in furious spleene The fourth King Edward lower did discend He to a Goldsmiths wife * She was I●cobs daughter whose Rape was accursedly reuenged by hir bretheren Simeon Leu● Genesi● his loue did bend This sugred sinne hath bin so generall That it hath made the strongest Champions fall ●●r Si●●em rauisht * 2. Sam. 12. Dina for which deed 〈◊〉 number of the Sichemites did bleed ●●d Sampson in the prime of manly strength 〈◊〉 Dallila was ouercome at length ●●ng * 2. Sam. 13. Dauid frayly fell and felt the paine ●●d with much sorrow was restor'd againe ●●ough Saul his foe he no way would offend 〈◊〉 this sinne made him kill his loyall friend 〈◊〉 much with Thamar Incest did commit ●●d Absolon depriu'd his Life for it ●●d Sal●●● allow'd most Royall meanes 〈◊〉 keepe 3. hundred Queenes 7. hundred Queanes 〈◊〉 whose meanes to Idolaty he fell 〈◊〉 most as lowe as to the Gates of Hell At last repeating he makes declaration That all was vanity and spirits vexation Aboundance of Examples men may finde Of Kings and Princes to this vice inclin'd Which is no way for meaner men to goe Because their betters oft haue wandred so For they were plagu'd of God and so shall wee Much more if of their sinne we partners bee To shew what Women haue bin plunged in The bottomlesse Abisse of this sweet sinne There are example of them infinite Which I ne're meane to reade much lesse to write To please the Reader though I 'le set downe some As they vnto my memory doe come Flora a Whore in Rome great wealth did win By her deare trading and her Commings in Which wealth she freely gaue when she did dye Vnto the Roman people generally For which they all to shew their thankes vnto h●● Made her a Goddesse and did Reuerence doe her And Laies of Corinth ask'd Demosthenes One hundred Crownes for one nights busines For which a crew of Whores did set vpon her A Whore she was and Whores to death did stone There was a famous Whore * Shee was seruant to Exanthus fellow to Esope the Fabulist Rhodope nam'd Who for her gaine at such high price she gam'd That she most liberall did the Charges beare A stately high Piramides to Reare Great Iulius Caesar was much ouerseene With Cleopatra the Aegiptian Queene And after she insnar'd Marke Anthony For which they both by their owne hands did dye Semiramis plaid the inhumane Trull a Queene of Babylon slaine by her sonne whom she would haue had to haue layne with her And was enamour'd with a beastly Bull So did b Pasipha wife to Minos king of Creete Pasipha but me thinkes 't is strange That Queenes so far from womenhood should range Mirha Adonis mother caus'd her father The flow'r of her virginity to gather If wise Vlysses had not well beene arm'd Inchanting Circes had his honour charm'd When lustfull Paris stole the lustfull Punke Faire Hellen had the Ship that bore them sunke Then thirty Kings in peace at home had staide Nor Troy or Troians in their ruines laide Faire Messalina a most royall Whore Wife vnto Claudins the Emperour The sports of Venus in the Stewes did play c Messalina and Faustins two Empresses Sometimes full fiue and twenty times a day Marcus Aurelius did faire Faustine wed And she with Whoring did ad-horne his head And many Princes and great Potentates With Vulcans crest haue arm'd their noble pates This to the poorest Cuckold seemes a bliss That he with mighty Monarchs sharer is That though to be Cornuted be a griefe Yet to haue such braue partners is reliefe These Whores Whoremaisters which I haue nam'd And thousands more in Histories defam'd With partiall selfe-opinion did approue Their sensuality and lust was Loue. When as the ods is more then day from night Or fire from water blacke from purest white The one with God one with the Deuill doth dwell Loue comes frō heauen and lust doth spring frō hell But the old Prouerb ne're will be forgot A Leachers loue is like Sir Reuerence hot And on the suddaine cold as any stone For when the lust is past the loue is gone But loue is such a blessing from on hie Whose zealous feruency can neuer dye It out-liues life and the ascending flame Mounis to the God of Loue from whence it came Lust made * Genesis Seths sonnes with fornication vaine Ioyne with the daughters of accursed Caine. And