Title:  The London-Bawd:  With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women

Author:  Anonymous

Release Date:  May 23, 2005 [EBook #15883]

Language:  English

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THE

London-Bawd: 

WITH HER

CHARACTER

AND

Life: 

Discovering the

Various and Subtle

Intrigues

OF

Lewd Women

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The Third Edition.

London, Printed for John Gwillim near Sun Yard, in Bishopsgate-Steet, 1705.  Price 3 s

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THE

London-Bawd.

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Chap.  I.

Her Character:  Or what she is.

A BAWD

Is the Refuse of an Old Whore, who having been burnt herself, does like Charcoal help to set greener Wood on Fire; She is one of Natures Errata’s, and a true Daughter of Eve, who having first undone herself, tempts others to the same Destruction.  She has formerly been one of Sampson’s Foxes, and has carried so much fire in her Tail, as has burnt all those that have had to do with her:  But the mark being out of her Mouth, and she grown past her own Labour, yet being a well-wisher to the Mathematicks, she sets up for a Procurer of fresh Goods for her old Customers.  And so careful she is to help Men to good Ware, that she seldom puts a Comodity into their hands, but what has been try’d before; and having always prov’d well, thinks she can Warrant ’em the better.  She’s a great Preserver of Maiden-heads; for tho’ she Exposes ’em to every new Comer, she takes care that they shall never be lost:  And tho’ never so many get it, yet none carries it away, but she still has it ready for the next Customers.  She thinks no Oracle like that of Fryar Bacon’s brazen-Head, and is very forward to tell you that Time Was when the best Gentlemen wou’d have prefer’d her before any Lady in the Land:  But when She repeats Time’s Past, She makes a Wicked Brazen Face, and even weeps in the Cup, to allay the Heat of her Brandy.  She’s a great Enemy to all Enclosures, for whatever she has, she makes it common.  She hates Forty One