The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 143 pages of information about The London-Bawd.

The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 143 pages of information about The London-Bawd.
but was as good as her word; yet engages him to take no notice of it to her Mother, and then as soon as he was a Bed, she’d come to him:  Accordingly, after he was a Bed, she comes to Bed to him, as she before had promis’d:  And after they had both gratify’d their wanton desires, the Whore professing a great deal of Love to him, and pretending she shou’d never be happy till they were married, Miss Betty all of a sudden pretends to want the Chamber-pot, which she desir’d him to help her to, who feeling about for it for sometime, cou’d’nt find it; upon which she told him she remember’d the Maid left it in the Window and desir’d him to reach it there; which he going to do, and treading upon a Trap door, it presently gave away; and down fell our Amorous Spark into the Alley; his Fall was but little, and so did but stun him for the present, and his being only in his Shirt quickly made him sensible of the cold; As soon as he came to himself he got up, and it being very dark, he knew neither where he was, nor which way to go; but endeavouring to find a door, he went on till he came to Clerken well-green; where seeing a Light at the Watch-house, he went thither; a Person all in white being seen by one of the Watch-men, he gave notice of it to the Constable; who with his whole Watch was very much affrighted, and began to exorcise this supposed Spirit; who being almost dead with cold, (for it was cold frosty Weather) told them he was no Ghost, but Flesh and Blood as they were; but Mr. Constable was loth to believe him upon his own Word, and therefore commanding him to stand, sent one of the most Couragious of his Watch-men to see whether it was so or no; who having found him to be what he said, he was taken into the Watch house, and put to the Fire, and examined how he came into that condition; who gave the Constable an account how he met with one Mrs Pierpoint his Country-woman, by whom he was invited to her House, and what befell him there, related:  But neither Constable nor any of the Watch-men knowing any such Person, they supposed rightly that he had been drawn in by a Bawd, and had lain with a Whore, who had together Cheated him of what he had.  For by a Ring on his Finger, and the Gold Buttons on his Shirt, which was all he carried off, they supposed his other Rigging was suitable thereto; which made Mr. Constable so kind as to lend him his Night-gown, to cover his Nakedness.  And likewise to offer him his assistance, to recover his Losses; but being in the dark he was altogether a Stranger to the Place, that he could give ’em no manner of Directions, so that it was but like seeking a Needle in a Bottle of Hay.  However they went and search’d several of the most notorious reputed Bawdy-Houses, but found nothing, and had only their Labour for their Pains:  Whilst the Bawd and the Whore triumph’d in their wickedness, and were glad they had met with so easy a Cully, from whom they had obtain’d so good a Booty.

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