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love_n	affection_n	find_v	love_v	2,574	5	5.6724	4	false

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A80750	The crafty whore or, the mistery and iniquity of bawdy houses laid open, in a dialogue between two subtle bawds, wherein, as in a mirrour, our city-curtesans may see their soul-destroying art, and crafty devices, whereby they insnare and beguile youth, pourtraied to the life, by the pensell of one of their late, (but now penitent) captives, for the benefit of all, but especially the younger sort. Whereunto is added dehortations from lust drawn from the sad and lamentable consequences it produceth.		1658 (1658)	Wing C6780; Thomason E1927_1; ESTC R209987	51,817	130

that money a house here Presently I interrupting her said that if she was resolved to depart I was sorry that I must be disobedient telling her that was the onely way for me to live No Mother know that I must sooner dye then be deprived of this my onely hope of life and joy of my heart Then did I imbrace him imploring his assistance with teares in my eyes My Cully was so taken with me and my sugar'd words that he forthwith promised before my Mother that before a day past he would provide both a house and furniture for us if we would not depart and truly he was as good as his word for on the morrow he came and discharged our Landlady of what we were indebted and coacht us to sumptuous house where all the houshold-stuffe was in the best fashion befitting a noble Man Ant. I cannot but adm●…e at the folly of this Man in spending 〈◊〉 much on you whereas he might have satisfied all his senses at a farre cheaper rate Thais O Sister I perceive you do not understand what absolute soveraignty hath Cupids dart over the person it hits It hath wrought such wonderfull effects on some Men as to cause them to leave the beds of their most fair and beautifull wives a happiness that some would venture their lives for professe love to some silly Kitchin Maid I believe neither you nor I are rightly able to dive into loves mysteries This Man had not his senses beene besotted by me certainely he might have understood his errour and folly and my unworthynesse for though those of our profession are for the most part very beautifull and well-spoken yet how depraved are our natures how corrupt and rotten how inconstant and deceitfull how do we most hurt them that we most seem to love I tell thee as a secret that that Man is most happy whom we most hate and disdaine Ant. As for my part I never profest much love to any man in my life but I had some extraordinary designe on him you may be sure it was not for his profit sometimes when I saw any my lovers to be full of money then would ● invite him to ly with me and then pick his pockets other times when he had good cloaths would I invite him to the like and being asleep would I afore acquaint some one of my Ruffians to come and take them from him awaking him first that he might see it was none of my fault with many other crafty tricks I had to inrich my selfe by their ruines Thais The truth of it is we have no such thing as love or affection but to our selves I never valued how many I utterly undid if I might but pleasure and content my selfe Nay I have made it a pastime for me to see my Lovers wound and slay one the other in contestation who should be most beloved by me whereas I loved neither for loves sake At that very time that this dotard loved me I was so provident as to insnare others likewise One among the rest was as foolish as this Man for once coming to our House and finding me along profest the greatest affection that Man could possesse alleadging that he should dye if I did not pitty him After I had considered that this my first love had spent all his estate upon the matter and that this other would and was able to spend largely and lavishly upon me then did I begin by little and little to withdraw my affection from my first Lover and did seemingly settle it on the other My former friend had not onely spent his owne estate but that too of his Creditors as much as possibly he could get upon trust so that being not able to pay his debts he was banisht out of Rome according to the custome of the City and so the Law freed me from farther trouble or importunity of this prodigal Ignoramus This second likewise because I will not be too tedious I fleeced of all his substance I made this my grand maxim to proportion the quality of my favours to the quantity of my Lovers crowns The next that came was a crafty and proud Spaniard who was so highly conceited of his owne abilities that at every step turning up his mustachio● he seemed to spurne the World in contempt His temper as is the rest of his Countrymens is hot and dry which makes them prone to leachery it was that which made him so beyond measure doat on my face But because I knew his nature to be beyond measure jealous I valued him for nothing but his gold which he had in good plenty Ant. I have heard that the Spaniard is so jealous as he will not suffer his Wife to converse with any no not stir abroad unlesse it be to her devotion and then not without a spye to watch her actions This passion as it is thought they borrowed of their neighbours the Moores For it is enacted as a Law among them that it is death for any tosee a Xeriffes wife and it is death for his Concubine too if not at the first sight of a man she cry not out Since I have spoken of the Men let me but mention a word of the Women They are sober and very loving of a delicate soft skin but some thing tawny They are extraordinary patient in travaile and very lusty after it in so much that they commonly lye in but three days Again I remembred a Proverb concerning these men which made me quite out of concept with them For it 's said the Spaniard is at enmity with Venus Vt Galiorum penes sunt exigui tamen oblongi sic Hispanorum et breves et exigui Therefore the French have got the start of them in that instrument though neither of them can boast of their sufficiency This Man I say I permitted to use me at his pleasure as long as he was worth any hing but he becoming a Bankrupt I turn'd him off Thus lived I excluding none that could give any thing worthy the receiving By this time I became an excellent proficient being extraordinarily improved in so short a time so that I became absolute Mistress of my art or rather Professor whole troopes of young heires well monyed to me but sent them away empty I could antificially take from one and give to the other and in the end deceive them both If I observed any had ribbands or good Handkerchiefes I could have the boldnesse to take them by violence as my tribute or their forfeitures If I took notice of any thing that was of a greater valew I would take occasion to praise it or the workmanship and if upon this they did not bestow it on me then would I use my naturall confidence in asking them for it Before they left me at any time I would make them ingage for another set and speedy meeting and to make them the more desirous of it I would suggest to them how merry we would be then what ravishing

troubled with him I plotted how I might make mine advantage of him Money I know he had none as knowing he had lavishly squandred it away in our company wherefore in fair termes I told him that he might frequent our house as often and as freely as even But with all I told him it would be very requisite for him to lay a side his jealous humor and comply with those that should pretend love to his love helping them to the accomplishment of their Lusts and assist me to make them dearely pay for it I advis'd him sometimes to officiate as a Pimp sometimes as a Hector othertimes as a husband to cloake her vitious actions I soone perswaded him to yeild to my demands after I had epitomiz'd to him the various waies of our gaining and pleasure of both which I assur'd him be should be partaker with us I lodg'd him in my house to be ready on all occasions viz. If any refus'd to pay Reckoning he might with his Com-rogue enforce them to it if any came in over charg'd with money he might ease them of their burthen c. Had it not been for his assistance we had mist of many a gallant prize to relate all the severall cheats and trappannings we acted through his meanes it would be a thing too tedious for you to hear and to me irksome to relate as now loathing as I hope you do my former courses for which I shall desire the assistance of the Almighty to help me to repent seriously for them Wherefore I say for brevity sake I shall onely assert one trick we serv'd a French Gentleman Which was thus seeing a country girle I had standing at the doore he was extreamly in love with her for though she was borne of poore parentage yet had she an excelling beauty which the neatnesse and gallantnesse of her habit did much augment At first to ingraciate himselfe into her favour he did use to send her amorous letters and sometimes verses accompanied with some token oft times of his love Among the rest a copy as I remember was to this effect which our Champion seeing and having drencht his wits in wine would by all means write an answer to it for our private mirth and therefore I shall let you participate of some of it in the rehersall of the one with the other 1 Madam some beauties have the power To make one love-sick for an hour It may be for a day or two But so to captivate a heart That it should never never part Alone that art remaines in you Ans Some buttocks Madam have the power To some four times in an hour By Physick some a day or two But for to to have a taile That at all times shall never faile One such alone belongs to you 2 Though other beauties have the skill By tempting frowns a heart to kill And by degrees a soule undoe And in a twinkling of an eye At once to bid one looke and dye Madam that art remaines in you Ans Though by degrees some have the skill By tempring dung a Jakes to fill And so poor Citizens undoe But so to dung as that at once Matter t' afford to build a sconce Madam that belongs to you 3 Fair Mistress to your flaming eyes A heart I faine would sacrifice If I had ere a one in store But having lost mine long before Well I may wish sigh and adore But for my life can love no more Ans Ye Privies whence gross vapors rise Somewhat from thence I 'd sacrifice But cannot get ought of that store Far having dung'd not long before I for my life can't no more This was the best entertainment his love-sick verses could receive at our hands when at any time we receiv'd any such fopperies we made it our pastime in private to laugh at his folly We valew not a rush Platonick loves Socratick's that which our five senses moves At once to sport in pleasure Ant. Surely you were not so respectlesse of your future benefit as to disrespect his passion by your Daughters not sending his letters an answer some way satisfactory in complying with his affection or againe to jeere at his poetry in such a manner as that he should take any notice of it Thais O not for my Daughter us'd to extoll his verses to him above all she had ever read to retaine him still under her power and likewise she would send him letters which were compos'd of no hing but indearing expressions of a tender jl bn kkl affection to him she us'd to expresse her fained love to him not onely by writing but like wise in speech and in behaviour One time I remember when he was with her she fell into a swound seemingly meerely because she askt him for something of an indifferent valew which he refus'd to give her whereupon she presently fell to the ground first speaking in a lamentable tune now I see he hath abated his love towards me for I askt this onely to try his affection After she seem'd to be some what recovered thus she exprest her selfe which I did put into time Ah! now undone I am I feele my heart For love to breake the greater is my smart His falsnesse kills me now I wish to dye That Mens ingratitude I no more may try This simple French-man thought what she had said came from the bottom of her heart she exprest her selfe so handsomely and therefore presently granted her desires and not onely so but vow'd to be her perpetual servant and lover but as for her part she resolv'd he should be no longer so then his mony lasted There was not a day past wherein he saw us not to his excessive charge leaving commonly behind him in money as our fee as much as he had expended in making merry which we spent jovially for his sake Lightly it came and lightly it did fly Whilest beauty lasted riches could not dye Having not a continuall spring or mine of Coyn he soon sounded the bottome thereof which as soon as we perceiv'd we bethought our selves of a way to excommunicate him which we did thus by the assistance of our sword-man In the first place we acquainted him that there was a great Lord in love with his Mistress whether she would or no and was so perditly affectionate and jealous of her as that he vow'd the death of that man that he should find in her company Wherupon we advis'd him to see us seldome for his own safety sake He was forc'd to submit himself to our wills but could not for his life make his own subservient and obedient to reason but would needs injoy once more with my daughter those pleasures that are onely proper to sensuall appetites We being acquainted of the night he would come we prepar'd our devices accordingly he came attir'd in his richest and onely garbe as I thinke for to my knowledg he had pawn'd most of what he had before for our use or whither he had borrow'd

be imploy'd in then by indeavouring to kill this hydra that hath kild so many or at leastwise discover to men its den that thereby they may not come neare it unlesse they will be guilty of selfe murther By this monster I mean all loose women but especially common Whores whom I advise you not to cheapen unlesse you intend your damnation to be the price not onely so but if you use their company they will likewise be your bodily undoing For as they are for the most part faire so are they witty and crafty out of all arts have they suck't the poyson of their craft so that it 's almost impossible to be undeceiv'd in their company I can speake this by experience as having been often cheatted in the rottennesse and deceitfullnesse of these female commodities and therefore I may the better be your pilot to keep you from splitting against their Seylla and Caribdis I may tell you that I have been as petulant as others and I have been heretofore so far from apposing that generally beloved thesis of injoying pleasure as that I rather studied how I might be an assector promotor of that doctrine but now experience hath reformed my judgement so that I can now look on a handsome woman with as little ardour as upon a well proportion'd statue which that you may so do shall be the continuall prayer of him who is Your Countryman A DIALOGUE Between ANTONIA And THAIS ANTONIA I would willingly heare by what meanes and for what ends your Mother and you first arriv'd at Rome THAIS Since fortune favours me with opportunity I shall be willing to satisfie your curiosity in this my Narration I need not tell you in what manner we came to this City since by the way there did nothing occur of moment therefore be pleased to understand that as soone as we came hither we inquired out what place in the City was most resorted to by Courtiers and young Gallants which as soone as we understood thither speedily did we repaire where we met with a Woman who got her living by letting of Lodgings with this Woman we found very good accomodation what was provided for our necessary food was neat and dainty as for the furniture of our Chamber it was both rich and eye-pleasing Here we continued eight days before which were expired our Landlady had sufficiently loud blowne the trumpet of my extraordinary beauty fit composure of body excellent be haviour and other rare both naturall and artificiall excellencies of soul and body with which I was indued but above all the rest she being almost blinded with the raise of my sparkling eye and rare symetry of my beautifull complexion I say she acquainted a Young Spark a great hunter of City beauties and delights how she lodged a Female Creature that might be tearmed the Master-piece of nature Presently upon this bare relation he acquaints others of his associates with this businesse and they their friends so that in a small time this disease being so catching and infectious there flocked a number of these Female-mongers before our Lodgings I presently smelling their designes and therefore kept my selfe extraordinary retired the more to inflame their appetites yet would I stand at the window at such a convenient place that I might see yet not be seen when I saw any young gull to gape and gaze very earnestly for a sight of me then would I put my head out of the Casement to spit downe not discovering to him above halfe my face but I would hastily catch in my head the more to deceive his eye-sight and cause him to conceive the more of my honest chastity so that by this craft I appeared to be more virtuous and beautifull For the eye being hindred from what it eagerly desires to see kindles in the affections a fierce indeavour to satisfie themselves in the pursuit of their injoyment By this time there were few of Love's Champions which had not notice of me in so much that our House was almost filled with amorous Visitants our Landlady in the meane while made her benefit on this occasion for they sufficiently greaz'd her fist to mediate for them Now did my Mother begin to bestir her stumps and being she was a Woman sufficiently tutored and experienced in Pandarisme her long exercise in that noble art made her a perfect Crafts-Mistresse wherefore she would pretend sometimes that suspition would not suffer her to admit of such variety of Company and that she much feared in time that it might pervert the chaste minde of her onely Daughter and then would she break out into these expressions Is it possible for me a staid Matron to be led away with faire speeches which may prove the ruine of my Daughters chastity and the dishonour of our antient Family God forbid that I should permit any thing that might be the cause of contaminating her hither to immaculated flower of Virginity whereas God knows it was long since that I could not be at rest till I had tryed and tasted of the sweet pleasures of concupiscence I have many times heard and I accordingly did put it in practice that in love affaires we must make hay while the Sun shines or whilest fortune favours I accounted it a matter of discretion to use that to day which I knew not whither it might be offred me to morrow As soone as vigorous nature had provokt me to surrender up my Virgin for t I was willing for scare of displeasing her to let it be taken at the first assault For I was very sensible that my Virgin-bud now disclosing it selfe delay would but blow it wider the longer it was suffered to grow the sooner it would fade wherefore these things and many other after I had duly considered on I thought on no better way then in my frequent wanton motion to sympathize with the Heavens in its continuall agitation Well my Mother if she thought any of these Gallants were neere enough to heare her would continue expostulating with her selfe what shall I regard either their faire speeches or quality No honesty shall be more prevalent with me Besides are we not discended of a noble Progeny And are we not so sufficiently in fortunes favour as not to be destitute of that of which we may lead an honest life Many other such expressions did she use which did make a wonderfull addition both to my beauty honesty and nobility My Lovers being thus captivated by the real and imaginary splendor of my perfections continue still their congregations before my lodgings every one had the hopes to crop the chiefe flower of my Garden At last I could not resist the motions of my mind but would sometimes stand at the window and seeme to take wonderful delight in those that I thought were most rich and wealthy as for other Reck shares as a brave presence gallantry of habit or a nice and quaint gate who foot it so to a tittle that it seems their senses

him nothing but sugar'd words which he took for the quintessence of affection and so quid pro quo would returne reciprocall love to me Cuckolds according to the Proverb are the most loving husbnds Thus did I by dissembling handsomely obtaine liberty both to gormondize to be wanton and to be prouder My devotion seldome reach't farther then good apparell for which cause I would goe to Church to observe what was the newest fashion or who had a better gowne then my selfe and then go home and be sick till I had it some body should pay fer't I could have wisht there had beene nothing worne but silke satten cloth of Gold c. had it not been for envy to see others as well clad as my selfe I would seldome stir abroad till I had wel read my face in a looking glass that I might artificially mend the errata's as if my cheekes were too pale then would I adde something of the vermilion Then when I had review'd it and found the faults thereof corrected I would venture boldly to show this Picture of my own drawing by withdrawing the courtains I meane my hoods Thus did I trimme my selfe as a French cooke garnisheth a dish the more to provoke the appetite to a taste Ant. Did'st thou thus trick up thy selfe to please thy husband onely Thais Noe yet I would pretend it was for his sake though my maine aime was to cause amorous customers to valew the more what was within by the richnesse and splendour of the bush And this I did knowing that one man alone is not able to guide a womans light vessell You know that when the spur of lust Pricks us on to a false gallop it requires a very lusty and experient rider to set us many times for all their sufficiency they are thrown Now that my saddle might not be empty it was requisite to have severall Horse-men that when one is out the other may be in I did all that I could to confine my selfe to my husband I very often gave him caudles cock-broth lamb-stones c. for Purgation sake But these wrought so violently with him that they left nothing within him and now as I was a consumption to his purse so he fell into the like of his body and now was it high time for him to repent which he might thank me for bringing him to it so soone though for my owne particular I sent it to travaile with an intent not to have its company till I was three score yeares old My husband being dead I followed not the custome of some widdowes that make costly Funerals the sonner to get them husbands But I buried him very obscurely first that I might imploy the money to a better use as in buying good cloaths living in pleasure c. and next that my husbands so shaddine death might nor be too much divulged as dying so suddainly Besides I bad no desire to come under those conjugall servile bones Were all females of my opinion no woman should marrie without the approbation of ten Doctors and seven Mid-wives at least you have not heard so many storyes concerning dilapidations as I have it makes me even lament with teares the condition of well wishing women that have the hard luck to meet with those doe-littles You may perceive Sister that I am a Jewelless for as I have good skill in the choice of Stones so am I never better then when I am bulied about them Ant. But Sister I wonder how thou did'st dissemble thy joy at the death of thy husband Thais I bid it under my mourning Gowne though I laught in its sleeve I would often fetch a customary sigh and if need did require I did weep for joy It requires a very discerning wit to distinguish a Womans teares For sometimes they proceed from sorrow other times from deceit and sometimes from anger and to be sure they can command them upon all occasions The time of mourning being expired I did cast of those sad weeds and clothedmy selfe like a flourishing spring after a hard and tedious Winter And now the hot rayes of my beauty being displayed they did attract Lovers to me like atoms in the Sun beames which fill'd my chamber as people doe a play house Ant. Now thou art reduc'd to the same condition as thou wer 't before marrige Thais It 's true onely with this difference that I am richer and more experienc'd in the World and so the better able to act my part in it Had I not been inspired with wisedome and cunning even from my Cradle I could never have expected to have lived so well at this time I ever prefer'd profit before pleasure though I often joyn'd them together otherwise poverty by this time had been my portion And that whereas one such as I have narrowly escaped the malice of fortune a hundred else have rotted of the Pox in an Hospitall or dyed out of want in some ditch The feare of which often stings us in such a manner as that we should hardly injoy our selves were it not for hopes that our deceits and couzonages will get us estates before that time Besides we have hopes of a trade to trust too which requires a small stock to set up withall onely two or three Country Girls a barrell of Beer and a Gallon or two of strong Waters If our trading is but small we can begin with lesse for you know the Honey-pot may admit of many flies to lick in it But of this I shall speake more largely of when I shall come to depaint the Baude with her implements Ant. Pray Sister continue your discourse Thais Whilest now I was a profest Whore again I indeavoured with the utmost of my craft to attempt any thing what ever it was and how wicked so ever the designe that might be any ways beneficiall you may perceive all along my ambitious minde for it was my study from fourteen years old to this present how I might excell all in our profession intending no lesse then to be stiled their Queene As for all kinde of wickedness I dare out-vie them all though the simplest of them is too too vild How many Men have I rob'd cheated and undone How many have I caused to be wounded nay sometimes murdred besides beatings and petty-larcenies Againe which is the chiefest thing how many gallons of thrice concocted blood have I extracted in those many venereall combats I have been in Ant. By the smock of Venus God forgive me for swearing thou art an arch deceitfull Quean Thais If I am so can you expect lesse from one that has been experienc't in so long and forc't to use such devices Ant. But wilt thou never repent for these thy wickednesse Thais What need I as long as the Pope stands our friends besides Cardinals and some of the eminent Clergy who will speak a good word for us hereafter he hath given me good hopes by giving me a generall pardon for sins past present and to come So

that now I hope my soul will injoy as many pleasures Celestiall as my body hath Terrestriall Ant. This is some part of my present comfort but I feare me the Pope and all the rest that tell us fornication is but a veniall sin will sooner open the Gates of Hell to us then those of Heaven And now my dreame is out for last night me thought I was dead and as I was entring Hell Gates I saw the Pope as Porter of the Gate instead of his triple Crowne he seem'd to have a pair of huge hornes with which he kept out a vast number of his Clergy-men that prest on him to get in telling them that the place was so full of them already that there would be no roome for others if he permitted them entrance and so to make roome for me he fell a pushing with his horns which made such a sad slaughter among their beads and crucifixes as never was the like seen Thais Thou makest me to laugh heartily at this thy phantasticall dreame Ant. It were all one if thou weepest because they are as much used by thee one as the other and for as little cause Thais It is very true for there is nothing so serviceable to our occupation as laughing and crying to which must be added lying which I made use of as often as Plow-men eate bred and cheese By a lye I got once a brave gold chaine It was thus there was a rich coxcomb was even sick for love of me this Man to seeme the more majestically before me had borrowed a very rich gold chain of his neighbour and he likewise had borrowed it of his Wife Now we were at that time he wore it appointed to see a great show I easily perswaded him because I had a desire to it to let me weare it at that time Away we went accompanied with my necessary implement a Pimp being come into the middle of a great crowd I slipt of my chain and conveighed it speedily into my Pimps hand When I thought he was gon with it far enough of I made a hideous cry that I was undone calling out stop theefe and because I so well counterfeited my griefe by my teares my Lover thought I had really lost it and so seeing there was no more to be done but to sit down quietly under the losse he suffer'd me to injoy the benefit thereof if I would grant him some few nights pleasure which I told him his merit required if I had not lost his chain and thus we compounded the difference If it may not be troublesome to you I shall tell you two or three more such like stories Ant. Your stories are so pleasing that I am sorry the nights approach will sooner finish your agreeable discourses then I am willing Therefore not to loose time pray proceed Thais When I lived at Florence it happened that an old drie bon'd fellow fell in love with me He could not love my beauty more then I did his Purse He wish't well to veneriall pleasures as being addicted to them in his youth though he could do little He was fit for nothing but to sleepe and snore by a womans hot side lying there like a senselesse block She that marries such a man may never feare of his being too vigorous and lustie and so be inforced to say it 's enough my Deare for this time This old Amorist the day before the nocturnall combat indeavours to provoke and stirre himselfe up by imbracing kissing and feeling mee nay he tooke many restoratives to strengthen his nerves And now thinking he had inabled his body to correspond with his desires he went to bed with me and so prepares himselfe for a battery But alas poore man as soone as the fight began his Standard fell just as he was entring the breach And no wonder for this member is as really dead as the rest of his body is a dying It serves him but as the Eunuchs quill for an aqueduct Thus you see it 's no propitious conjunction when Saturn is coupled with Venus Now least he should leave me unexpectedly by reason of his impotency I was resolved to have a good parting blow Wherefore I told him that the best way to strengthen his body was to make a good feast and there at to eate and drinke freely He was very willing to do it according to my motion Upon this I invited most of our society about the City The banquet was served up in dishes most whereof were silver ones which I had on purpose borrowed of the old man After we had most plentifully eaten and drunke the table cloath was taken away but I forgot not to set by four peices of plate and so I sent home the rest But the old man finding missing so many was ready to have run distracted and in that humour came and demanded them of me But I told him that a little after he was gone from my house a cousen of mine defired me to lend them her which I presum'd to do upon that mutuall affection there was between him and my selfe He being pleas'd at this did rest satisfied at that time but some while after he demanded them of me againe and then I told him I had forgot to fetch them home the next newes I heard he was dead It was joyfull newes to me for-the gaines I received by it Ant. I think thou well deservedst what thou hadst For my part I thinke if he had offred me twice as much I should hardly have suffered him to come nigh me The very thoughts of him even nauseat's my stomack his stinking breath his tisicks besides his impotency an insupportable griefe to a woman Againe be hath his sally port almost continually open out of which he thunders at a time at least a hundred claps not missing one of the number and this thunder is but a fore-runner of a shower of raine which will follow to wit a stinking liquid humour c. Thais Now after I had spent the summer of my life in all manner of these kind of cheates and debauchments the autumn thereof began to appear And now was it high tune for me to cast the anchour of my owne carnall pleasures For since I was not able to reforme and restore comelynesse to my face by Ceruse and Vermilion nor make my stinking breath sweet by perfum'd comfits my Lovers began by little and little to leave me and therefore I was resolved to make use of the last meanes of a lively-hood by turning Bawd Now I confesse I was forced to choose a very ill time to set up in For our Gallants had learnt by experience how expensive and dangerous it is to keep a Whore and therefore now they went a wiser way to work viz. by keeping in their houses handsome Girles which serv'd as Servants by day but as their Wives by night and so by teaching them what it is to lye with a Man make them turn Whores the sooner and so augment the number