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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54807	The whore's rhetorick calculated to the meridian of London, and conformed to the rules of art : in two dialogues.; Retorica delle puttane. English	Pallavicino, Ferrante, 1615-1644.	1683 (1683)	Wing P213; ESTC R22922	90,077	254

If I have in any degree transgressed those rules of decency young Ladies have prescribed themselves it is you and you only that could have been the Author of my miscarriage If you have made me forget the dictates a severe modesty would enjoyn which I had yet hitherto preserved inviolated you ought not first to act the Seducer's part and then likewise to inflict the punishment I know the writing of this single Letter is a crime for which I never can make sufficient atonement and yet I am irresistably hurried on to the committal of it I clearly see those plain and safe paths honour and prudence have chalked out for me but notwithstanding my uncontrollable fate drives me on in the rugged course of a precipitate and indecent love Seeing then it is impossible not to love you it is equally impossible my love should be fictitious You may assure your self there can be nothing Womanish that is inconstant in that affection which has for its basis the starry firmament of your charming countenance That flame can never be corrupted nor consumed that has chose for its seat the Heaven of your face for its Sphere the light of your bright Eyes and the splendor of your shining Vertues Be not then insensible my pretious hope after my tears and prayers flowing from the untainted source of your Adorer's Eyes and that pure fountain of immaculate love the unfortunate Catherina's languishing and distressed Soul I will again be guilty by turning suppliant once more Consider then I beseech you my pain of which you have been the sole cause It is vertuous and just you should apply a remedy to those wounds which as they have been created by you so they can only be cured by an excess of your generous goodness Katharina Dor. I like the Letter well if it were not a little too tedious and the flights seem a little too high to be thought real among the old Romantick Heathens such braveries might pass but they can scarce be digested among Christians M. C. It is very well Daughter First you will have me satisfie your curiosity and then you find fault with what I say like a bold Guest that thrusts himself uninvited to a Gentlemans Table and then finds fault with his entertainment Dor. Pardon me Madam A modest censure is no finding fault with what you say The Letter was good but every thing has its defects so that is best which has the fewest imperfections M. C. She considered the person to whom she addressed her self but many other Letters were more concise of a more sober and perswasive strain Pray Heaven Child thou mayest have vertue to follow the wise Katharines sage and unerring foot-steps Dor. Amen M. C. A Whores eloquence as if it were an artificial composition has no small resemblence to the Body natural for it pretends to a distinction of Members some essential others for ornament which chaining together the several periods render the work perfect and intire I will therefore follow the Idea this example sets before me in giving some further Laws to make the conjunction more agreeable in which consists the last part of a Womans perswasive and in like manner in this Venereal act there are some things indispensably necessary others like a Fringe or Lace to a Petticoat are added in conformity to the mode or humour of man and so requisite to make the Work agreeable and compleat Dor. You still observe a regular method M. C. I would not here prescribe any set unalterable Precepts because the Whore stands obliged to alter in many particulars and change her method as may make the deepest impression in the capricious head of that Man she is about to perswade It will be at all times necessary to gratifie her Lover in the position of her Members to place them in that part of the period which may create most pleasure in his particular fancy Let her industriously avoid all harshness or ruggedness especially in those parts that are more exposed to the Lovers touch A morbid smooth skin is one of Venus's chief attributes and one of the Whores most forcible arguments As her Bed must be clean sweet and soft so ought every part of her Body to make it a scene suitable to the delicacy of amorous joys let her be curious in her Perfumes Essences and sweet Waters to procure the satisfaction of the smelling sense which will much advance her Lovers joys and make her appear a compleat Sphere of delight and pleasure My Rhetorick must not be deficient in shewing the several slights that may be fitly adapted to captivate every Sense of a Mans Body and each faculty of his reasonable Soul She must be nicely clean in every action and part of her life not omitting to advance as much as possible the natural whiteness of her Skin with the assistance of artificial means An exquisite night-Dress for the Head is a thing not to be neglected by any Whore that would be absolute in all her numbers and one of those Lessons you are to learn among other things at your entring under the tuition of another Mistress as I have said you must for some Months And yet if the Ladies Hair be short as indeed it ought and her constitution will bear it she may well in my opinion at warm seasons of the year omit covering her Hair with any attire which of themselves afford the Eyes and Touch a pleasing diversion and yet in that negligence there is a decorum to be observed to render such a fantastical Undress more agreeable All her Linnen whether about her Bed her Person or belonging otherwise to her Lodgings must be exquisitely neat and pure as well as rich and costly And when this cannot be had the former must not be wanting Dor. I approve mightily of neatness in a Whore as well as a luxurious magnificence because in these you make her agree with a Lady of quality and reputation M. C. Assure your self Dorothea that nothing advances a Whores credit and reputation more than these external appearances of pomp and grandeur as a stately and majestick deportment in her Looks Gestures Words and Actions does forcibly extort respect and veneration so costly Cloaths rich Furniture do singularly advance her profit and advantage The price of her vendibles does notably increase when they are dispensed in a splendid and magnificent Shop and it is in this as in other Trades they that are richest are ever thought to be furnished with the best Commodities have most Customers and sell their Ware at the dearest rates Dor. You gave me already a tast of this Doctrine M. C. Pray thee Girl do not put me off the Hinges Dost know how Seneca excuses his repetition of the same Precepts Dor. No. M. C. Because people are again and again guilty of those Vices which he was reforming Therefore says he my Precepts ought to be inculcated over and over Dor. It was morally spoke M. C. A glittering shew dazles the Eye and

its ordinary sphere if the Warfare of Venus be made hereby more regular and more methodical both Combatants the Masculine besieger and the besieged Female are informed of one anothers designs and so by easy consequence to shun the danger and hazzard of a Battel The Author has the vanity to believe the last part of the Dilemma true and that these few sheets though comprised within the terms of a decent civility may be comprehensive enough to supersede any lewd revelling on the same subject THE Introduction IN England's famous Metropolis not far from the Piazzas in Covent-Garden there dwelt a young and most beautiful Virgin who by the poverty and indigence of her Parents was obliged to one continued retirement This Fair Maid had scarce as yet that blessing of Providence fulfilled in her person who promised the Sun should shine on all mankind laying aside the distinction of good and evil The want of ornaments suitable to her age sex and quality were motives strong enough to engage her in this sad and miserable confinement but alas this fair Creature 's Fate was yet much harder she wanted even that provision of necessary attire sufficient to repulse the injuries of heat and cold Dorothea's Father for so was the fair one called had much more Nobility in his Veins than Money in his Purse and for the support of a numerous Issue that angry Heaven had bestowed upon him there was nothing left but the honour of his Family and the memory of his own brave actions It was his fortune or choice rather from the beginning of the late intestine broils to have imbarqued himself in Caesar's quarrel the Estate his Father left him and which had continued in his Family some hundreds of years had suffered the same rigorous destiny that his royal Master had first undergone So when Brutus had washt his hands in that Sacred Blood and when the true Augustus for there needed no adoption by the unanimous prayers and desires of all his Vassals had seated himself on his Fathers Throne this Gentleman then expected some thing more than a return of the Golden Age he thought there was something due to the merit of his services that might have superseded a tedious attendance and take away any necessity of turning suppliant or offering up a begging petition but what a wonderful and surprizing disappointment was it when he thought his misery had been at an end to see a new scene of troubles appearing to him more tormenting and more dreadful than the first He began to think the doctrine of invoking Saints was nothing improbable in that he had experimented the necessity on 't in his own person His attempts proved notwithstanding equally insuccessful that way with his former endeavours in as much as he wanted a Golden sacrifice to mollifie the Saints Heart finding then these Parasites deaf to all his intreaties inexorable after all his Prayers he is finally resolved to make a bold attack on Jupiter himself from him he found a reception full of mercy goodness and generosity even like the Fountain from whence it flowed but there casually happened a fair Danae in the way that received some part of the Golden Shower and intercepted for some time the rays of that sacred influence This unfortunate Gentleman's miserable Family had occasion much more to yawn for want of Bread than excess of Sleep and were forced to be very frequent in blessing themselves lest the Devil should enter their Bodies as being for the most part defenceless and empty Houses The revolutions Philosophers talk of on occasion of a vacuum rather than suffer which angry Nature would invert the Universe were oft-times found true in these unhappy persons who in their empty Guts found the effects of natures wrath in a horrid grumbling and an extraordinary confused noise The Peripateticks give us to believe if two Walls were placed opposite to one another and the Air extracted from between them Nature would in an instant bring them both level with the Ground or make the two Walls meet and lovingly imbrace each other By all which I presume they mean no more than this and what is signified in the vulgar Proverb That the nature of a hungry Belly has a mighty antipathy to Stone Walls The Male part of this disconsolate Family by divers Arts and Shifts to be exercised in that spacious City made it their business to avoid these inconvenient and griping hardships but poor distressed Dorothea her sex not permitting her to keep her Brothers company in their frequent sallies was of the rest in the most deplorable state she wanted it seems a necessary point of Faith being equally destitute of Food and Rayment The pressing wants this Virgin had undergone had sufficiently armed against all Cupid's darts and all the dangerous effects of love Ceres and Bacchus the essential supports of an amorous flame had been hitherto this fair Maids implacable enemies what small favours she had received from that Rural Goddess had such a strong mixture of Gall and Wormwood as too too much imbittered the benefit to deserve the tribute of a mean thanksgiving Among all the Gods and Godesses Thetis only remained her constant and faithful Friend and her she payed in her own Coin with daily offerings of sacred Vestal Tears One day and it was that dedicated to St. George and by us particularly celebrated in memory of our great Kings Coronation whom Heaven preserve was the pensive Dorothea left alone in the House to contemplate her own misery and misfortune She stood at a Window that lookt into the Street which yet scarce afforded her sight the benefit of the passing objects it being almost choaked up by a jealous wall that engrossed the fair Dorothea's looks hindred all that passed from the enjoyment of that charming vision and deprived the unfortunate Maid of opportunity to gratifie her eyes the only sense she was then in a condition to please In this Melancholy posture was the beautiful Virgin constrained to reflect on her self and not without an inexpressible anguish of Soul to ruminate on her cruel Fate After a million of confused thoughts and some showrs of pretious tears her pitiful but just resentments as she since told me burst out in these or the like expressions If something of Christianity or possibly my Parents Instructions did not at present influence my Soul I should certainly at this instant exclaim at providence and fly in the face of Heaven I would boldly approach the Almighty's Throne to know what one action of Dorothea's life has merited this rigid penance this complication of misery and pain but since I am taught and commanded sufferance where there is no room for patience since I must believe and expect the best after all hope seems taken away since I am obliged to think Justice an essential attribute of the Divinity though I experiment nothing in my own person but a cruel severity since after all I stand engaged to look on the strokes and