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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._

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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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