The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life - Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous
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furnish'd him with more money to new Rig himself, and supply his occasions,
ere he durst appear before his Lady; Mr. _Hanwel_ promising him, when he was at leisure, he wou'd have him to the true Mrs. _Pierpoint_, from whom he engag'd he shou'd meet with better entertainment than he did from the Counterfeit one. _Thus still the Bawd does her old Game pursue;_ _Her End's the same, altho' her Method's New._ _Her Baits are various, which she still does suit_ _To ruin those that love forbidden Fruit._ _And by her Management of things we find,_ _She's one knows how to Sail with every Wind._ * * * * * CHAP. VII. _How a Citizen went to a Bawdy-House for a Whore, and the Bawd helpt him to his own Wife._ A Certain Citizen in _London_, in the late times had a very fine Woman to his Wife; and had but her Vertue been equal to her Wit and Beauty, she might have deserved the first rank among Women: But Lust had so great an Ascendant in her, that her Husband was unable to Satisfie her over strong desires to the Delights of _Venus_: And therefore having Communicated her Thoughts to an Old Bawd that kept a House of Private Entertainment for the Accommodation of Persons of Quality of both Sexes, she told her that for a Guinea in hand to her, and two Guinea's for the drawing of her Picture, she might be enter'd into her Accedamy; whereby (says the Bawd) you may both receive the Satisfaction you want, and gain Money likewise; for the first |
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