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Panders, bring your whores to

Cupid's

muster.

He'll cashier all that can't

be warranted.

Prostitutes discussed: 1. Nan Wright.

2. Little Ales (with Tom Todd).

3. Garden.

Panders come awaye.

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PANDERS, come away!

bring fforth your whores by Clusters
alongst the Lane, by Gray,1

4 wheere Cupid keepes his musters

12

16

2 whenches, doe

now to-day!

you

heare? I tell you not a ffable; all you that doe appeare, & be not warrantable,

heele Casheere!

As for Nan: wright, though her dealings may compare h[er ;]

yett, for her parts below, theres not a woman ffairer to the showe.

Litle Ales is found 7 yeeres to haue been a trader; yett Tom Todd wilbe bound, whom as they say did spade h[er,]

that shees sound.

Gardens neere the worss, though shee hath made her
Co[ney]

as common as the Bursse; yett still shee hath they

money

in her pursse.

? MS. Pray.-F.

2 The MS. has 4 lines in 2 henceforth.-F.

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24

28

32

36

Boulton is put by, & Luce, among the infected;

& ffranke Todd goeth a-wry, being before 1 detected

to be drye.

4. Boulton.

5. Luce
(with Frank

Todd).

Pitts is to forbeare the trade, & soe is likwise 6. Pitts

Pearnit2; for Cupid in his

eare,
is told that they haue had itt
to a haire.

True itt is that Babe for yeeres may be a virgin ;

3

yett Cupid ffinds the drabb, al ready 3 for a surgyon

for the scabb.

7. Pearint.

8. Babe.

Southewells! beare in mind, althoug they are ffalse 9. Southdoers,

they say that you are blind, & soe perhapps more

ffauors

you doe ffind.

winlowe is to young,

to know the ffruits of wooinge

till nott haue made her strong, to know the ffruits* as
doei[nge]

to to Longe.

Gallants, come not neare to braue VENETIA stanley 5 !
her Lord hath placed her there, that will maintaine
her ma[nly]

without ffeare.

Hayseys, stoupe soe long, to Cupid for aquittance,
till euidence soe strong, will speake for your indit-
men[t.]

1MS. be before.-F.

2? Pearint.-F.

MS. already.-F.

4 MS. ffiruits.-F.

5 Venetia, Daughter of Sir Edwa.

wells.

10. Winlowe (with Nott).

11. Venetia Stanley.

12. Hayseys.

Stanley, was the Wife of Sir Kenelm
Digby: Her reputation was not very
clear, as appears from Mr. Walpole's
Anecdotes of Painting.-P.

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13.....

armed;

. ce & Iames, Cupid will haue you

for with his hottest fflames he hath them soundlye 2

warmed;

marke their names!

14. Nan James

(with her barber's boy).

15. Besse Broughton.

16. Jane Selbe.

17. Beunkards.

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Nan: Iames is growne soe

Coy, that no man

can

endure her;

yett I haue heard some say, a barbers boy did cure her of a toye.

But with the wicked sire, that yett was neuer thought

on,

44 by quenching of loues ffire, hath tane away Besse BROUGHTON

48

18. Foulgam 52

(with her

holy father)

19. Dodson.

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one desire.

Its3 ill that simix rydes, Iane selbe doth oppresse her; with other more besides, vnlesse there were a dresser of their hyds.

Beunkards, how yee speed, tis shrewdly to be ffeared ; yee cannott aske to reade, soe oft you haue beene seared

ffor the deede.

ffoulgam will appeale, from Cupid, as men gather,
for in her wandring taile, hath beene her holy father;
hees her bayle.

Dodson is not ill, yeett hath shee beene a deale-her ; the falt was in his skill, who knew not how to appease

her

with his quill.

1 Part of the line has been cut away

from the MS. by the binder.-F.

2 One stroke too few in the MS.-F.

? MS. Itt.-F.

4? MS.: the e is oddly made; it may be Birmkards, the i not dotted.-F..

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64

her husband saies shee[s] nought, I thinke an honest

woman

by Lewdnesse may be brought, to be like others,

common,

being sought.

Ales Bradshaw is fforgott, the Cittye that ingrost her; 20. Ales but happy is his lott, that neuer did arrest her,

for shee is hott.

Cittye wiues, they say, doe occupye by Charter;
but Cupid grant they may, that ware for-ware the

Bradshaw
(of the city).

City-wives, don't in

dulge.

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barter

without pay.

Ladies, and
Ladies'

Ladyes name wee none
none,
nor yett no Ladyes women
your honors may begone; ffor Caesars loue will women,

summon

I don't name you.

you alone.

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But because that some will not allow the order,

to morefeelds see you Come, your Maiour & your
recorder

with a drum.

harlots!

Thus farwell, yee whores, yee hackneys & yee harlotts! Farewell
come neare my walkes no more,
but get you to your

varletts

as before!

I shall have

no more to

My hart shall ay disdaine, to thinke of such pore blisses;
my lipps shall eke the same, to touch with breathing do with you,

kisses

yours againe.

Thus here ends my song, made only to be merrye:

and I hope I

don't offend.

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If I offend in toung, in hart I shalbe sorry

ffor the wrong. ffinis.

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[A leaf is gone here in the MS., containing, among other things perhaps, the beginning of "The Spanish Lady."]

1 Written at the lower corner: the first words of the next page.--F.

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