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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02092	A disputation, betweene a hee conny-catcher, and a shee conny-catcher whether a theefe or a whoore, is most hurtfull in cousonage, to the common-wealth. Discouering the secret villanies of alluring strumpets. With the conuersion of an English courtizen, reformed this present yeare, 1592. R.G.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12234; ESTC S105909	39,793	48

much company may venture the fréedome of her hart by the folly of her eye for so long the pot goes to the water that it comes broken home and such as looke much must néedes like at last the Fly dallyes with a flame but at length she burneth flax and fire put together will kindle a maid in companie of yonge men shall be constrayned to listen to the wanton allurements of many cunning speeches if she hath not eyther with Vlisses tasted of Moly or stopt her eares warily shee may either bee entised with the Syrens or enchanted by Cyrces youth is apt to yeeld to swéet perswasions and therfore cozen thinke nothing more daungerous than to gad abr●ade neither cozen doe I allowe this wanton dauncing in younge virgins tis more comendation for them to moderate their manners than to measure their féete and better to heare nothing than to listen vnto vnreuerent Musicke Sylence is a precious Iewell and nothing so much worth as a couetenaunce full of chastitie light behauiour is a signe of lewd thoughts and men will say there goes a wanton that will not want one if a place and person were agréeable to her desires if a maidens honor be blemisht or her honestie cald in question she is halfe deflowred and therefore had maidens neede to bee chary least enuy report them for vnchast Cozen I speake this generally which if you apply particularly to your selfe you shall find in time my words were well saide I gaue him slender thankes but with such a frump that he perceiued how light I made of his counsayle which hee perceiuing shakt his head and with teares in his eyes departed But I whom wanton desires had drawne in delight still presumde in my former follies and gaue my selfe either to gad abroad or else at home to read dissolute Pamphlets which bred in mee many ill affected wishes so that I gaue leaue to loue and lust to enter into the center of my heart where they harboured tyll they wrought my finall and fatall preiudice Thus leading my life loosely and being soothed vp with the applause of my too kind and louing parents I had many of euery degrée that made loue vnto me as wel for my beauty as for the hope of wealth that my father would bestowe vpon mee sundry sutors I had and I allowed of all though I particularly graunted loue to none yéelding them friendly fauors as being proud I had more wooers then any maid in the parish beside amongst the rest there was a welthy Farmer that wished me well a man of some forty yeeres of age one too worthy for one of so little worth as my selfe and him my father mother and other friendes would haue had mee match my selfe withall but I that had had the raynes of lybertie too long in mine owne hands refused him and would not bee ruled by their perswasions and though my mother with teares entreated mee to consider of mine owne estate how wel I sped if I wedded with him yet carelesly I despised her counsayle and flatly made aunswere that I would none of him which though it pinched my Parentes at the quicke yet rather than they would displease me they left me● in mine own liberty to loue Many there were beside him mens sons of no meane worth that were wooers vnto mee but in vaine either my fortune or destenie dro●e me to a worser ende for I re●used them all and with the Beetle refusing to light on the swéetest flowers all day nestled at night in a Cowsheard It fortuned that as many sought to win me so amongst the rest there was an od companion that dwelt with a Gentleman hard by a fellowe of small reputation and of no lyuing neither had he any excellent quallities but thrumming on the gittron but of pleasant disposition he was and could gawll out many quaint ribadrous Iigges songs and so was fauoured of the ●oolish sect for his foppery This shifting companion sutable to my selfe in vanitie would oft● times be iesting with me and I so long dallying with him that I beganne déepely oh let me blush at this confession to fall in loue with him and so construed of all his actions that I consented to mine owne ouerthrowe for as smoake will hardly be concealed so loue will not bee long smothred but will bewray her owne secrets which was manifest in mee who in my sporting with him so bewrayed my affection that hee spying I fauoured him began to strike when the yron was hotte and to take opportunitie by the forehead and one day finding me in a merry vaine began to question with me of loue which although at the first I slenderly denyed him yet at last I graunted so that not onely I agréed to plight him my faith but that night méeting to haue farther talke I lasciuiously consented that he cropt the flower of my virginity When thus I was spoyled by such a base companion I gaue my selfe to content his humor and to satisfie the sweet of mine owne wanton desires Oh heare let me breath and with teares vewaile the beginning of my miseries and to exclayme against the folly of my Parents who by too much fauouring mee in my vanitie in my tender youth layde the first plot of my ensuing repentance Had they with due correction chastised my wantonnesse and supprest my foolish will with their graue aduise they had made mee more vertuous and themselues lesse sorrowfull A fathers frowne is a bridle to the childe and a mothers checke is a stay to the stubhorne daughter Oh had my parents in ouerlouing mee not hated me I had not at this time cause to complaine Oh had my father regarded the saying of the wise man I had not beene thus woe begone If thy daughter bee not shamefast holde her straightly least shee abuse her selfe through ouer-much libertie Take heede of her that hath an vnshamefast eye maruell not if she trespasse against thee The daughter maketh the father to watch secretly and the carefulnesse he hath for her taketh away his sleepe In her virginitie least shee should be deflowred in her fathers house If therefore thy daughter be vnshamefast in her youth keepe her straightlie least shee cause thine enemies to laugh thee to scorne and make thee a common talke in the Cittie and defame thee among the people and bring thee to publique shame Had my parentes with care considered of this holy counsaile and leuelied my life by the load-stone of vertue had they lookt narrowly into the faultes of my youth and bent the trée while it was a wand and taught the hound while he was a puppie this blemish had neuer befortuned me● nor so great dishonour had not befallen them Then by my example let all Parents take head least in ●ouing their children too tenderly they 〈◊〉 them vtterly least in manuring the ground too much with the vnskilful husbandman it were too fat and bring foorth more wee●s then floures least cookering their

children vnder their winges without correction they make them carelesse and bring them to destruction as their ●●rture is in youth so will their nature grow in age If the Palme tree be supprest while it is a sien it wil contrary to nature be crooked when it is a Tree Quo se●●el est imbutarecens seruabit odoren test a di● If then vertue be to be ingrafted in youth least they prooue obstiuate in age reforme your children betimes both with correction and counsaile so shall you that are parentes glorie in the honour of their good indeuours but leauing this digression againe to the loosenesse of mine owne life who now hauing lost the glorie of my youth and suffered such a base slaue to possesse it which many men of woorth had desired to enioy I waxed hold in sin grew shameles in so much he could not desire so much as I did grant whereupon seeing hee durst not reueale it to my father to demand me in marriage hee resolued to carry me away secretly and therefore wisht me to prouide for my selfe and to furnish mee euery way both with money and apparrell hoping as he sayd that after we were departed and my father saw wee were married and that no meanes was to amend it he would giue his free consent and vse vs as kindly and deale with vs as liberally as if wee had matcht with his good wil. I that was apt to anyil agreed to this and so wrought the matter that hee carried mee away into a straunge place and then vsing me a while as his wife when our mony began to wax low he resolued secretly to go into the Country where my father dwelt to heare not only how my father tooke my departure but what hope we had of his ensuing fauour although I was loath to be left alone in a strange place yet I was willing to heare from my friendes who no doubt conceiued much heart sorrow for my vnhappy fortunes so that I parted with a few teares and enioyned him to make all the hast he might to returne hee being gone as the Eagles alwaies resort where the carrion is so the brute being spred abroad of my bewtie and that at such an Inne laie such a fatre yoong Gentlewoman there resorted thither many braue youthfull Gentlemen and cutting companions that tickled with lust aymed at the possession of my fauour and by sundry meanes sought to haue a sight of me which I easily graunted to all as a woman that counted it a glory to be wondred at by many mens eyes insomuch that comming amongst them I set their harts more and more on fire that there rose diuers brawles who should bee most in my company beeing thus haunted by such a troupe of lustie Ruffiers I beganne to finde mine owne folly that had placst my first affection so losely and therefore beganne as deeply to loath him that was departed as earst I likte him when hee was present vowing in my selfe though hee had the spoyle of my virginitie yet neuer after should he triumph in the possession of my fauour and therfore beganne I to affection these new come guests and one aboue the rest who was a braue yoong Gentleman and no lesse addicted vnto mee then I deuoted vnto him for daily hee courted mee with amorous Sonnets and curious proude letters and sent me Iewels and all that I might grace him with the name of my seruant I returned him as louyng ●nes at last and so contented his lusting desire that secretly and vnknowne to all the rest I made him sundry nights my bedfellow where I so bewitcht him with sweet wordes that the men began deepely to doate vpon me insomuch that selling some portion of land that he had hee put it into readie money and prouiding Horse and all things conuenient carried mee secretly away almost as farre as the Bathe This was my second choyce and my second shame thus I went forward in wickednesse and delighted in chaunge hauing left mine olde loue to looke after some other mate more fit for her purpose how hee tooke my departure when hee returned I little cared for now I had my content a Gentleman yoong lustie and indned with good quallities and one that loued mee more tenderly then himselfe thus liued this new entertained friend and I togither vnmarried yet as man and wife for a while so louingly as was to his content and my credite but as the Tygre though for a while shee hide her clawee yet at last shee will reueale her crueltie and as the Agnus Castus leafe when it lookes most drye is then most full of moysture so womens wantonnesse is not quallified by their warinesse nor doo their charinesse for a moneth warrant their chastitie for euer which I prooued true for my supposed husband beeing euery way a man of worth could not so couertly hide himselfe in the country though a stranger but that he fel in acquaintance with many braue Gentlemen whom he brought home to his lodging not only to honour them with his liberall courtesie but also to see mee being proude of any man of woorth applawded my beautie Alas poore Gentleman too much bewitcht by the wilinesse of a woman had hee deemed my heart to bee a harbour for euery new desire or mine eye a suter to euerie new face hee would not haue beene so fonde as to haue brought his companions into my company but rather would haue mewed mee vp as a He●ne to haue kept that seuerall to himselfe by force which hee could not retaine by kindnesse but the houest minded Nouice little suspected my chaunge although I God wot placed my delight in nothing more then the desire of new choyce which fell out thus Amongst the rest of the Gentlemen that kept him company there was one that was his most familiar and hee reposed more trust and confidence in him then in all the rest this Gentleman beganne to bee deepely inamoured of mee and shewed it by many signes which I easily perceiued and I whose eare was pliant to euery sweete word and who so allowed of all that were bewtifull affected him no lesse so that loue preuailing aboue friendship hee broake the matter with mee and made not many suites in vaine before hee obteined his purpose for hee had what hee wisht and I had what contented mee I will not confesse that any of the rest had some sildome fauours but this Gentleman was my second selfe and I loued him more for the time at the heele then the other at the heart so that though the other youth beare the charges and was sir pay for all yet this newe friend was hee that was maister of my affections which kindnesse betwixt vs was so vnwisely cloaked that in short time it was manifest to all our familiars which made my supposed husband to sigh and others to smile but hee that was hit with the horne was pincht at the heart yet so extreame was the affection hee bare to mee