The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life - Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous
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Past_, She makes a Wicked Brazen Face, and even weeps in the Cup, to allay
the Heat of her Brandy. She's a great Enemy to all Enclosures, for whatever she has, she makes it common. She hates _Forty One_ 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 |
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