as much as an old Cavalier, for at that Age she was
forc’d to leave off Whoring and turn Bawd:
Her Teeth are all fallen out; at which her Nose and
her Chin are so much concern’d, that they intend
to meet about it in a little time, and make up the
difference. She’s the most like a Medlar
of any thing, for she’s never ripe till
she’s rotten. She is never without
store of Hackney Jades, which she will let
any one Ride, that will pay for their hire.
She is the very Magazine of Taciturnity; for whatever
she sees, she says nothing; it being a standing Maxim
with her, That they that cannot make Sport, shou’d
spoil none. She has Learnt so much Philosophy
as to know that the Moon is a dark-Body, which makes
her like it much better then the Sun, being more Suitable
for her Business: Besides she’s still changing
Quarters, now Waxing and then Waining, like her:
Sometimes i’th’ Full, and flush’d
with store of Customers; and at another time i’th’
Wane, and beating Hemp in Bridewel. She
has been formerly a Pretender to Musick, which makes
her such a great Practitioner in Pick-Song,
but She is most expert at a Horn-Pipe.
She understands Means a little, but Trebles
very well, and is her self a perfect Base.
Tho’ she lives after the Flesh, yet all is Fish
that comes to her Net: For she is such a cunning
Angler, that she don’t fear getting her Living
by Hook or by Crook. She has Baits ready for
all Fish, and seldom fails to catch some: Of a
Countrey-Gentleman she makes a Cods-head;
and of a rich Citizens Son a Gudgeon;
a Swordsman in Scarlet, she takes for Lobster;
and a severe Justice of Peace, she looks on
as a Crab: Her Poor Customers,
are like Sprats, and Pilchards, who are
more considerable for their number than they are for
their Value; whilst the Punk is her Salt
Eel, and the Pander her Shark and
her Swordfish. Her Charity is very great,
for she Entertains all Comers, and not only finds ’em
Beds, but Bed-fellows too, of that Sex
which shall be most agreeable to them; Which is a
Conveniency a man may go to twenty Honest-Houses
and not Meet with. She brings more Wicked
Wretches to Repentance than many a good Preacher;
for, let ’em be as stubborn as they will, yet
she’ll leave them such a Twinging Remembrance
in their Joynts, that their very Bones
shall ake, but she’ll make them repent that e’er
they had to do with her. And to some Notorious
Wretches, she’ll fix such a visible Mark
in their Faces, as shall make ’em the
Derision and the Loathing of all People; and so bring
’em to Repentance with a Pox to ’em.
Yet she has very little Conscience, for she
makes nothing of Selling One Commodity to Twenty
Customers: And for all she cheats them at