A bavvd A vertuous bawd, a modest bawd: as shee deserves, reproove, or else applaud. Written by John Taylor.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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A bavvd A vertuous bawd, a modest bawd: as shee deserves, reproove, or else applaud. Written by John Taylor.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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[By Augustine Mathewes?] for Henry Gosson,
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1635.
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A
BAWD
.
A
vertuous
Bawd
,
a
modest
Bawd
:
As
Shee
Deserves
,
reproove
,
or
else
applaud
.
Written
by
JOHN
TAYLOR
.
Printed
at
London
for
Henry
Gosson
.
1635.
To
the
neither
Noble
or
Ignoble
,
Lord
or
Lady
,
kind
or
cruell
,
learned
or
ignorant
,
curteous
or
currish
,
Christian
or
Barbarian
,
Man
or
Woman
,
rich
or
poore
:
but
to
all
and
every
one
in
generall
and
particular
.
MOnsieur
,
and
Madam
Hydra
,
to
your
many
Heads
and
varietie
of
Censures
I
have
made
bold
to
dedicate
a
poore
,
harmelesse
,
modest
,
honest
,
and
innocent
Bawd
;
I
know
great
persons
of
worth
and
Honour
,
are
daily
so
visited
with
penurious
shreds
of
Schollership
,
fragments
of
Hexameters
and
Pentameters
,
scraps
of
Poetry
,
the
scum
and
dregs
of
wit
,
and
the
froth
and
lees
of
wisdome
:
One
salutes
my
Lords
Lordship
at
Breakfast
with
a
Funerall
Elegie
,
lamentably
written
,
and
is
most
miserably
rewarded
for
his
kindness
.
Another
hunts
out
his
VVorships
ungentlemanly
Knighthood
,
(
having
most
intolerably
be
laboured
his
name
with
an
Acroflicke
or
Anagram
)
which
out
of
his
vacuitie
of
worthinesse
hee
rewards
with
not
a
peny
.
A
third
hath
belyed
such
a
Lady
or
Gentlewomans
Beautie
and
qualities
,
in
most
abominable
fashion
,
setting
her
forth
for
faire
and
vertuous
;
for
the
which
hee
is
rewarded
according
to
the
subject
he
wrote
of
,
and
his
owne
demerits
,
with
as
much
as
comes
to
nothing
.
For
these
and
some
other
respects
,
I
thought
it
not
fit
to
desire
the
patronage
of
any
one
person
in
patticular
,
it
being
a
subject
that
is
common
to
all
,
for
all
,
or
any
.
At
men
are
dispersed
universally
through
the
VVorld
,
so
a
Bawd
,
being
an
universall
creature
,
whose
function
is
publikely
scattered
,
I
thought
it
not
pertinent
or
accomodating
,
that
she
should
be
privately
protected
by
any
.
Therefore
as
she
hath
beene
and
is
for
al
,
so
I
dedicate
her
to
all
,
knowing
that
all
are
better
able
to
reward
the
Poet
,
than
one
alone
.
And
this
is
further
to
advertise
the
Reader
,
that
where
I
doe
speake
of
Spirituall
Bawdes
,
Bawdry
,
Adultery
,
or
Fornication
,
that
I
have
avoided
prophanitie
,
obscenity
,
scurrilitie
,
and
all
manner
of
incivility
or
indecencie
;
not
medling
with
Religion
at
all
,
but
with
a
pitiful
derision
,
and
merry
reprehension
,
explaining
the
abuses
,
foppish
and
sottish
corruptions
,
that
like
so
many
Cankers
or
Caterpillers
have
and
doe
dayly
eate
,
consume
and
putrifie
both
the
Puritie
and
Pietie
of
that
Religion
which
boalts
it selfe
to
be
most
Primitive
and
Catholike
.
For
the
other
part
of
this
Booke
,
or
Bawd
,
shee
is
altogether
civill
or
temporall
,
being
not
troubled
so
much
as
with
one
good
Ecclesiastical
word
,
but
merely
Paradoxicall
;
setting
foorth
the
rare
and
singular
vertues
of
a
Bawd
;
wherein
if
any
of
my
Readers
can
picke
any
pleasure
,
it
is
on
apparant
signe
they
have
some
wit
,
and
if
reape
any
profit
,
let
them
either
thanke
me
in
words
,
or
else
revvard
me
with
silence
.
Yours
so
farre
,
and
no
further
then
you
are
mine
,
IOHN
TAILOR
.
A
BAVVD
.
MY
Verse
is
honest
,
seemely
,
neat
and
cleane
,
Yet
is
my
Theame
polluted
and
obsceane
:
I
le
touch
foule
pitch
,
yet
will
not
be
defild
,
My
Muse
shall
wade
through
dirt
,
&
not
be
soild
.
The
Sun
on
noysome
dunghills
shines
as
well
,
As
on
faire
flowers
that
doe
fragrant
smell
:
The
Ayre
by
which
we
live
,
doth
every
where
Breathe
still
alike
upon
the
poore
and
Peere
.
The
Sea
beares
many
an
old
despised
*
Boat
,
Yet
on
the
Sea
the
best
Ships
doe
but
float
,
And
Earth
allowes
to
all
her
scattred
brood
,
Food
,
Clothes
and
Lodging
to
the
bad
and
good
.
Yet
Sun
,
Ayre
,
Sea
,
nor
Earth
receive
disgrace
By
any
bountie
which
they
give
the
base
.
Even
so
my
Muse
,
(
free
from
all
foule
intents
)
Doth
take
example
from
the
Elements
,
In
laying
better
studies
by
a
while
,
And
in
cleane
fashion
write
a
beastly
stile
:
Yet
will
I
not
my
sense
or
meaning
marre
;
With
tearmes
obscure
,
or
phrases
fetcht
from
farre
Nor
will
I
any
way
equivocate
,
With
words
sophisticall
,
or
intricate
,
Vtopian-Fustianisme
,
poore
heathen
Greeke
,
To
put
my
Readers
wits
to
groape
and
seeke
.
Small
eloquence
men
must
expect
from
me
,
My
Schollership
will
name
things
as
they
be
.
I
thinke
it
good
,
plaine
English
,
without
fraud
,
To
call
a
spide
a
spade
,
a
Bawd
a
Bawd.
Two
little
Pamphlets
I
have
wrote
before
,
Which
I
was
bold
to
call
a
Thiefe
,
and
Whore
,
Yet
was
my
Whore
so
chaste
,
that
she
had
not
,
From
end
to
end
,
one
foule
offensive
spot
;
Nor
did
my
Thiefe
from
any
man
purloyne
,
Or
liv'd
by
filching
either
goods
or
coyne
.
And
now
by
chance
it
came
into
my
mind
,
That
with
the
Bawd
my
Pen
was
much
behind
:
My
Whore
was
honest
,
and
my
Thiefe
was
true
,
And
in
this
sort
I
le
give
the
Bawd
her
due
.
Strange
fruit
from
my
poore
barren
labour
springs
,
I
modestly
must
immodest
things
:
'T
is
somewhat
hard
,
but
yet
it
is
no
riddle
,
All
Bawdry
doth
not
breed
below
the
middle
.
So
many
severall
sorts
of
Bawds
doe
grow
,
That
where
there
's
not
a
Bawd
,
't
is
hard
to
know
.
The
first
with
spirituall
Bawds
,
whose
honor
high
Springs
from
the
whoredome
of
Idolatry
,
Cast
but
your
eyes
upon
the
Man
of
Rome
,
That
stiles
himselfe
the
Head
of
Christendome
,
Christs
universall
Vicar
,
and
Vicegerent
,
In
whom
fooles
thinke
the
Truth
is
so
inherent
,
That
he
can
soules
to
Heaven
or
Hell
preferre
,
And
being
full
of
Errours
,
cannot
erre
:
And
though
his
witchraft
thousands
hath
entic'd
,
Hee
will
be
call'd
Lieutenant
unto
Christ.
How
hath
that
false
Conventicle
of
Trent
,
Made
lawes
,
wch
God
,
or
good
men
never
meant
,
Commanding
worshipping
of
stones
and
stocks
,
Of
Relikes
,
dead
mens
bones
,
and
senslesse
blocks
,
From
which
adultrate
painted
Adoration
,
Men
(
worse
then
stocks
or
blocks
)
must
seek
salvation
?
The
Soules
of
men
are
His
that
dearly
bought
thē
,
And
he
the
only
way
to
Heav'n
hath
taught
them
.
And
who
so
forceth
them
to
false
adoring
,
Is
the
maine
Bawd
unto
this
spirituall
Whoring
.
Besides
,
it
is
apparent
,
and
most
cleare
,
That
he
's
the
greatest
Bawd
the
Earth
doth
beare
:
For
hee
that
tolerates
the
Stewes
erection
,
Allowes
them
Priviledges
and
Protection
,
Shares
in
the
profit
of
their
sordid
sweat
,
Reapes
yearely
Pensions
and
Revenues
great
,
Permits
the
Pole-Shorne
fry
of
Friers
and
Monks
,
For
Annuall
stipends
to
enjoy
their
Puncks
.
When
*
Paul
the
third
the
Romish
Miter
wore
,
Hee
had
contributary
Trulls
such
store
,
To
five
and
fortie
thousand
they
amount
,
As
then
Romes
Register
gave
true
account
.
Besides
,
it
was
approv'd
,
the
gaine
was
cleere
*
Full
twentie
thousand
Duckats
every
yeere
.
Moreover
,
once
a
Bishop
(
boasting
said
,
He
had
Ten
Thousand
Priests
that
paid
(
Some
more
,
some
lesse
(
by
way
of
Rent
or
fines
;
Each
*
one
of
them
for
keeping
Concubines
.
And
he
that
keepes
none
,
payes
as
much
as
he
As
for
his
vse
doth
keepe
one
,
two
or
three
.
Al
's
one
,
the
Priests
must
pay
t'augmēt
the
treasure
Keepe
or
not
keep
,
Whore
or
not
Whore
at
pleasure
.
Now
judge
,
good
Reader
,
have
I
said
amisse
,
Was
ever
any
Bawdry
like
to
this
?
Pope
a
Alexander
of
that
name
the
sixt
,
With
his
owne
childe
incestuously
commixt
.
And
Paul
the
third
(
affecting
the
said
Game
)
With
his
owne
b
daughter
did
commit
the
same
:
And
after
with
his
sister
tooke
such
course
,
That
he
with
her
did
doe
as
bad
or
worse
.
Iohn
the
thirteenth
,
and
other
more
,
't
is
plaine
Have
with
their
sisters
and
their
daughters
laine
,
And
when
their
stomacks
have
beene
gone
&
past
,
To
Princes
they
have
married
them
at
last
.
Here
's
Bawds
of
State
,
of
high
and
mighty
place
,
Our
Turnbul
street
poore
Bawds
to
these
are
base
.
But
these
brave
doings
better
to
disclose
,
A
little
while
I
le
turne
my
Verse
to
Prose
.
The
forenamed
Lucrece
being
dead
,
had
this
Epitaph
bestowed
on
her
,
written
by
Pontanus
:
Here
lies
Lucrece
by
name
,
but
Thais
in
life
,
The
Popes
child
,
and
spouse
,
&
yet
his
ownsons
wife
.
Besides
,
I
found
a
cursed
catalogue
of
these
veneriall
Caterpillers
,
who
were
suppressed
with
the
Monasteries
in
England
,
in
the
time
of
King
Henry
the
eight
,
with
number
of
trugs
,
which
each
of
them
kept
in
those
daies
,
as
those
;
Christopher
Iames
a
Monke
of
the
Order
of
Saint
Bennet
in
Canterbury
,
had
three
whores
,
all
married
women
:
William
Abbot
of
Bristoll
,
foure
:
Nicholas
Wbyden
Priest
kept
foure
in
Windsor
Castle
:
in
the
same
place
George
Whitthorne
five
,
Nicholas
Spoter
five
,
Robert
Hunne
five
,
Robert
Daveson
sixe
,
Richard
the
Prior
of
Maidenbeadly
five
;
In
Shuldred
Monastery
in
Chichester
Diocesse
,
George
Walden
the
Prior
seven
,
Iohn
Standnep
seven
,
Nicholas
Duke
five
;
In
Bath
Monastery
Richard
Lincombe
seven
,
three
of
them
married
:
Iohn
Hill
in
the
Cathedrall
Church
at
Chichester
but
thirteen
;
Iohn
White
Prior
of
Bermondsey
had
no
more
but
twentie
:
all
this
Rabble
was
found
and
known
in
England
;
let
a
man
imagine
then
how
many
were
not
known
,
and
what
a
goodly
brood
of
Barnes
were
fathered
upon
those
that
never
begat
them
:
withall
,
if
England
were
so
stored
with
them
,
it
is
not
to
bee
doubted
but
all
the
rest
of
the
Christian
world
did
swarme
with
these
lecherous
Locusts
.
Moreover
,
much
knavery
(
Bawdery
I
should
say
)
may
bee
covered
under
the
vaile
of
Auricular
Confession
;
for
the
Priest
having
a
yong
prettie
maid
or
wife
at
shrift
,
will
know
her
disposition
,
groape
out
all
her
secret
conveyances
,
and
craftily
underfeele
her
policies
,
and
for
a
penance
for
her
faults
past
,
she
is
enjoyned
to
commit
a
sin
present
.
The
unloading
of
her
Conscience
(
many
times
)
proving
the
burthen
of
her
belly
Forty
weekes
after
.
And
in
this
manner
the
most
zealous
Catholike
,
or
the
most
jealous
Italian
,
may
bee
most
devoutely
cornuted
under
the
cloake
of
Confession
and
Absolution
.
Besides
a
most
pernicious
Bawd
is
hee
,
That
for
poore
b
scraps
,
and
a
bare
ten
pounds
fee
,
Dares
not
his
mighty
Patron
to
offend
,
Or
any
way
his
vices
reprehend
,
Nor
preach
'gainst
pride
,
oppression
,
usury
,
Dice
,
drinke
,
or
drabbes
,
vaine
oathes
or
simony
,
Nor
Veniall
sinne
or
Mortall
,
or
nothing
That
may
his
Worship
in
the
Withers
wring
:
But
every
way
must
fit
his
Text
and
time
,
To
leave
untoucht
th'
Impropriators
crime
:
Thus
those
whose
functions
Heaven
doth
signifie
,
(
Who
should
like
trumpets
lift
their
voices
high
)
Are
mute
and
muzled
,
for
a
hireling
price
,
And
so
are
Bawds
unto
their
Patrons
vice
;
For
hee
's
a
Bawd
who
doth
his
living
winne
,
By
hiding
,
or
by
flattring
peoples
sinne
.
The
*
Prince
of
darknesse
,
King
of
Acheron
,
Great
Emperour
of
Styx
and
Phlegeton
,
Cocytus
Monarch
,
high
and
mighty
Dis
,
Who
of
Great
Limbo-lake
Commander
is
,
Of
Tartary
,
of
Erebus
,
and
all
Those
Kindomes
which
men
Barathrum
doe
call
,
Hee
is
the
chiefest
Bawd
,
and
still
he
plods
To
send
us
whoring
after
godlesse
gods
:
And
by
his
sway
,
and
powerfull
instigation
,
Hath
made
the
world
starke
drunke
with
fornication
.
For
since
the
first
Creation
,
never
was
The
least
degree
of
Bawdry
brought
to
passe
,
But
he
began
it
,
and
contriv'd
it
still
,
He
layd
the
plot
,
and
did
the
Act
fulfill
.
So
that
of
all
the
Bawds
that
ever
were
,
The
Devill
himselfe
the
Bell
away
doth
beare
:
Yet
all
his
whoring
base
Idolatrie
,
Did
seeme
Religious
zealous
sanctitie
.
As
thus
He
blinded
and
withdrew
people
so
farre
from
the
service
and
knowledge
of
the
true
God
,
that
they
prayed
to
Pomona
for
the
encrease
of
their
fruit
,
to
Ceres
for
Corne
and
Graine
,
to
Silvanus
for
wilde-fowle
,
to
Bacchus
for
wine
,
to
Neptune
for
fish
,
to
Mars
for
the
successe
of
Wares
and
Captaines
,
to
Phoebus
for
Physicke
and
Musicke
,
to
Saturne
for
labourers
and
workmen
in
husbandry
,
to
Pallas
for
valour
,
to
Minerva
for
wisdome
,
to
Iupiter
for
men
of
state
and
port
,
to
Inno
for
Pompe
and
Iewels
,
to
Vulcan
for
fire
and
lightening
,
to
Venus
for
beauty
and
lascivious
pleasure
,
to
Luna
for
calmnes
and
faire
weather
,
to
Pluto
for
riches
,
to
Mercury
for
learning
and
eloquence
,
to
Flora
for
flowers
,
to
Proteus
for
disguises
,
to
Pan
for
Pypers
,
to
Eolus
for
winds
and
stormes
,
to
Bellona
for
battells
and
conquests
,
to
Lucina
for
women
with
child
,
to
Faunus
for
Goats
and
Venison
,
to
Clotho
for
spinning
out
the
thread
of
life
,
to
Lachesis
for
wynding
or
reeling
it
,
and
to
Atropos
for
cutting
it
off
:
my
hee
led
them
into
more
ridiculous
sorts
of
spirituall
adultery
,
as
to
worship
with
religious
adoration
,
Cats
,
Dogges
,
Toades
,
Beetles
,
Serpents
,
Fooles
,
Madmen
,
Privies
Onions
,
Garlicke
,
and
many
other
damnable
inventions
,
not
to
be
numbred
.
Neverthelesse
,
whosoever
will
but
looke
into
the
lying
Legend
of
Golden
Gullery
;
there
they
shall
finde
that
the
poore
seduced
ignorant
Romanists
doe
imitate
all
the
idolatrious
fornication
of
the
Heathen
Pagans
,
and
Infidels
;
and
that
they
put
their
Hee
and
Shee
Saints
,
to
farre
more
baser
and
ignominious
offices
,
then
these
vnbeleevers
of
former
ages
did
dare
to
put
vpon
their
(
vaine
imaginarie
)
gods
,
as
they
make
Saint
Crespine
a
Shoomaker
,
and
Saint
Roch
the
Patron
of
Sowters
and
Coblers
,
they
put
Saint
Wendelin
to
keepe
sheepe
,
and
they
make
Saint
Pelage
a
Cowheard
or
Neatherd
,
Saint
Antony
hath
the
protection
of
their
Swine
,
Saint
Vitus
or
Vitellus
,
aelias
,
Saint
Calfe
,
an
exellent
patron
or
protector
to
cure
those
that
are
bitten
of
a
Spider
called
Terrantulla
,
or
Phallanx
.
They
acknowledge
Saint
Gertrude
for
an
exellent
Rat-catcher
,
and
Saint
Hubert
for
a
good
Dogge-keeper
(
some
say
a
cunning
Huntsman
:
)
the
Smiths
must
pray
to
Eloye
,
the
Painters
to
Saint
Luke
,
the
Bakers
must
inuocate
Saint
Honore
,
the
Mariners
Saint
Nicholas
,
Saint
Yue
is
for
the
Lawyers
,
and
Saint
Anne
to
finde
things
that
are
stolne
or
lost
,
whilst
Saint
Leonard
is
the
onely
Saint
to
set
prisoners
at
liberty
,
by
opening
the
dores
in
the
night
,
and
make
their
Shackles
fall
off
without
any
noyse
or
knocking
.
Besides
they
make
Iob
a
Physician
to
cure
the
Pox
,
when
as
that
foule
disease
was
not
knowne
in
any
part
of
the
world
many
hundred
yeares
after
Iobs
dayes
;
for
in
the
yeare
1496.
(
Charles
the
eight
being
then
the
French
King
)
the
Pox
was
brought
from
Naples
into
France
,
having
but
a
little
before
bin
very
thriftily
by
the
Spaniards
purchased
from
the
Americans
or
West
Indians
:
And
therefore
they
doe
Iob
wrong
to
make
a
Mountebank
of
him
,
in
ascribing
cures
to
him
beyond
his
skill
or
knowledge
:
but
all
is
one
for
that
,
he
must
be
content
with
his
office
,
as
Saint
Valentine
is
with
the
falling
sickness
,
Saint
Roch
with
scabs
and
scurfes
,
Saint
Sebastian
with
the
Plague
,
Saint
Entrope
the
Dropsie
,
Saint
Genou
the
Gowt
,
Saint
Petronella
the
Ague
or
any
Fever
,
Saint
Apollonia
the
Tooth-ach
;
*
Saint
Romane
,
they
say
,
dispossesseth
Devils
out
of
the
possessed
,
&
Saint
Maturine
is
the
mad
mens
Saint
to
cure
the
Frenzie
.
It
is
to
bee
doubted
,
that
Physicians
and
Chirurgians
have
small
takings
,
where
all
these
skilfull
Saints
are
so
employed
,
except
now
and
then
they
get
a
Patient
by
chance
,
when
the
good
Saint
is
over-busied
,
or
not
at
leasure
.
Moreover
,
there
is
a
great
contention
amongst
them
,
to
what
Saint
they
shal
commit
the
keeping
of
their
Geese
:
some
will
have
Saint
Andoch
,
some
Saint
Gallicet
,
and
some
Saint
Feriall
:
the
businesse
is
very
weighty
,
and
requires
mature
deliberation
and
ripe
judgement
:
some
there
are
that
would
deprive
Saint
Wendoline
(
before
named
)
of
his
keeping
sheepe
,
and
bestow
the
place
upon
Saint
Woolfe
,
which
is
a
very
unsutable
name
for
a
Shepheard
.
By
this
which
hath
been
said
,
the
Reader
may
perceive
what
a
cunning
Bawd
the
Devill
is
,
to
adulterate
the
true
service
of
the
eternall
God
with
these
whorish
inventions
.
And
so
though
I
could
amplifie
this
point
to
a
larger
extent
,
in
describing
spirituall
Bawds
and
Bawdry
,
yet
now
I
thinke
fitting
to
avoid
tediousnesse
,
and
to
treat
of
this
subject
in
other
garbes
and
fashions
.
It
is
reported
by
Henry
Stephens
in
his
Apology
or
defence
of
Herodotes
,
the
first
Book
,
21.
Chapt.
pag.
182.
That
a
merry
disposed
Priest
got
a
pretty
Lasse
behind
the
high
Altar
upon
a
good
Friday
in
the
morning
,
where
he
thought
all
the
Hee
and
Shee
Saints
were
contented
to
keepe
Counsell
,
but
it
was
knowne
to
the
Legate
of
Auignion
(
by
the
intelligence
of
no
Saint
)
which
Legate
after
hee
had
wisely
considered
on
what
day
and
time
,
and
in
what
place
the
cleanely
conveiance
was
acted
,
he
out
of
his
charitie
concluded
a
Priest
to
be
mortall
,
and
that
flesh
was
fraile
,
for
which
respects
(
upon
promise
of
amendment
)
hee
was
absolved
and
released
.
Moreover
great
*
Emperours
and
Kings
have
beene
Bawdes
,
as
Suetonius
Tranquillius
writes
of
Tiberius
Caesar
,
that
he
had
Cels
,
and
Caves
,
and
Vaults
in
his
house
,
where
hee
had
a
nursery
of
Whores
,
and
oftentimes
would
have
the
execrable
sport
committed
in
his
presence
.
The
Emperour
Domitian
followed
his
admirable
example
,
and
Heliogabolus
went
so
farre
beyond
them
in
the
Art
of
Bawdry
,
that
he
made
Punies
of
them
both
.
And
of
latter
yeares
a
*
King
of
Castile
,
called
Henry
the
unable
,
because
he
could
uot
have
a
child
by
his
wife
to
inherit
after
him
:
he
kindly
intreated
one
of
his
Lords
to
take
the
paines
to
beget
an
Heire
for
him
.
There
was
a
rich
Burger
of
Antwerp
,
a
Mercer
by
his
trade
,
who
was
a
Bawd
to
his
owne
wife
(
though
it
was
against
his
will
or
knowledge
)
but
I
blame
him
not
,
for
I
doubt
hee
hath
many
more
fellowes
as
innocent
and
ignorant
as
himselfe
,
but
this
was
the
case
,
his
wife
wearing
Corke-shooes
,
was
somewhat
light-heel'd
,
and
like
a
foule
player
at
Irish
,
sometimes
she
would
beare
a
man
too
many
,
and
now
and
then
make
a
wrong
Entrance
:
The
summe
was
that
shee
lou'd
a
Doctor
of
Physicke
well
,
and
to
attaine
his
company
shee
knew
no
better
or
safer
way
,
then
to
faine
her selfe
sicke
,
that
he
under
the
colour
of
visitation
might
feele
her
pulses
,
and
apply
such
cordiall
Remedies
as
might
either
ease
or
cure
her
.
In
briefe
,
the
Doctor
being
sent
for
,
comes
and
finds
the
Mercer
her
husband
walking
in
his
shop
with
a
neighbour
of
his
,
where
after
a
Leash
of
Conges
,
and
a
brace
of
Baeza
los
manus
,
the
Mercer
told
him
that
his
Wife
is
a
languishing
sicke
woman
,
and
withall
intreats
him
to
take
the
paines
to
walke
up
the
staires
,
and
minister
some
comfort
unto
her
.
Master
Doctor
,
who
knew
her
disease
by
the
Symptomes
,
ascends
up
into
the
Chamber
to
his
longing
Patient
,
staying
an
houre
with
her
,
applying
such
directions
and
refections
,
that
her
health
was
upon
the
sudden
almost
halfe
recoveered
;
so
taking
his
leave
of
her
(
with
promise
of
often
visitation
)
hee
comes
downe
into
the
shop
,
where
the
guiltlesse
Bawd
her
husband
was
,
who
demanding
of
the
Doctor
how
all
did
above
,
truely
quoth
he
,
much
better
then
when
I
came
,
but
since
I
went
up
,
your
wife
hath
had
two
such
strange
violent
fits
upon
her
,
that
it
would
have
grieved
your
very
heart
to
have
seene
but
part
of
one
of
them
.
I
my selfe
doe
know
two
men
that
lighted
by
chance
into
one
of
these
houses
of
Iniquitie
in
Antwerpe
,
and
I
dare
be
sworne
that
they
went
to
commit
no
carnall
act
,
nor
did
commit
any
;
but
they
perceiving
a
pretty
painted
peece
of
Punks
flesh
,
did
suspect
in
what
house
they
were
,
the
one
of
them
taking
her
by
the
hand
,
did
aske
her
some
questions
(
wherein
I
thinke
was
not
one
word
of
God
;
)
the
other
impatient
that
his
fel'ow
had
ingrost
all
the
familiarity
and
talke
with
the
wench
,
begins
to
stampe
,
knocke
and
call
,
at
which
the
man
of
the
house
enters
,
demanding
,
What
doe
ye
lacke
?
You
base
rascall
,
quoth
the
other
,
have
you
no
more
Whores
in
your
house
,
must
I
stand
like
a
Iacke
an
Apes
heere
empty
handed
?
Good
sir
,
(
quoth
mine
Hoast
)
bee
patient
,
and
I
will
presently
send
mine
owne
wife
to
waite
upon
you
.
Nor
is
the
skill
and
knowledge
of
a
substantiall
or
absolute
Bawd
easily
gotten
or
learned
;
no
my
Masters
,
there
is
more
in
the
matter
then
so
;
Frist
,
shee
is
a
young
prettie
Girle
,
and
passeth
time
away
in
the
instructions
,
rudiments
,
and
documents
of
a
Whore
,
till
she
hath
attained
(
with
many
hazards
)
to
the
yeares
of
30
or
35.
in
all
which
space
she
hath
not
spent
her
time
idlely
,
but
hath
beene
a
creature
of
much
use
,
having
for
the
common
cause
,
adventur'd
the
blemmish
of
her
Reputation
,
the
rigour
of
the
Lawes
,
as
whippings
,
Penance
,
Imprisonments
,
Fines
,
Fees
to
Justices
Clarkes
,
Beadles
,
and
such
inferiour
Reliques
of
Authoritie
.
Besides
,
her
valorous
combates
and
conflicts
with
Diseases
,
(
wherein
shee
often
approves
her selfe
one
of
the
profitablest
members
in
a
Common-wealth
to
Physicians
and
Chyrurgians
:
)
having
(
I
say
)
passed
all
these
degrees
with
much
perill
and
jeopardie
of
her
body
,
*
then
looke
higher
and
thinke
but
on
the
shipwracke
of
her
soule
,
(
an
adventure
of
a
greater
price
then
shee
is
aware
of
;
)
then
towards
the
declining
of
her
life
,
and
that
her
beautie
fades
,
What
a
deale
of
charge
is
shee
at
with
sophisticated
Art
,
White
and
Red
,
to
emplayster
decayed
Nature
?
Her
humilitie
being
such
,
that
when
her
owne
head
is
bald
,
shee
will
weare
the
cast
haire
of
any
hee
for
shee
sinner
,
that
made
a
voyage
in
a
string
from
Tyburne
,
to
either
Heaven
or
Hell.
And
lastly
,
when
as
Art
can
no
longer
hide
the
sorrowed
or
wrinkled
deformities
of
her
over-worne
Age
;
then
(
like
a
true
wel-willer
to
the
old
trade
shee
hath
ever
followed
,
)
Whoring
having
left
her
very
unkindly
before
shee
was
vvilling
to
leave
it
:
shee
,
(
as
her
proper
right
for
her
long
service
)
takes
upon
her
the
office
and
authority
of
a
Bawd
,
and
as
shee
was
brought
up
her selfe
,
so
with
motherly
Care
her
Imployment
is
to
bring
up
others
,
wherein
her
paines
is
not
small
,
in
hyring
Countrey
wenches
,
that
come
up
weekely
with
Carryers
,
and
putting
them
in
Fashion
,
selling
one
Maydenhead
three
or
foure
hundred
times
,
and
sometimes
with
great
labour
and
difficulty
shee
's
forced
to
perswade
mens
wiues
and
daughters
;
all
which
considered
,
a
Bawd
doth
not
get
her
living
with
so
great
ease
as
the
world
supposeth
;
nor
is
her
adventure
,
paines
,
charge
and
perill
to
be
inconsiderately
slighted
.
And
as
blabbing
,
babbling
,
taletelling
,
and
discovering
the
faults
and
fraileties
of
others
,
is
a
most
cōmon
and
evill
practice
amongst
too
many
:
so
on
the
other
side
,
the
vertues
of
a
Bawd
are
much
illustrated
and
confirmed
by
contrary
effects
:
For
she
is
the
maine
store-house
of
secresie
,
the
Maggazin
of
taciturnity
,
the
closet
of
connivence
,
the
inumbudget
of
silence
,
the
cloakebagge
of
councell
,
and
the
Capcase
,
sardle
,
packe
,
*
male
,
(
or
female
)
of
friendly
toleration
.
Shee
is
full
of
intolerable
charity
,
for
her
whole
trade
and
course
of
life
is
to
hide
and
cover
the
faults
of
the
greatest
offenders
,
in
which
regard
shee
is
one
of
the
principall
secretaries
to
the
great
Goddesse
Venus
,
and
one
of
her
industrious
vigilant
most
horrible
priuie
counsell
,
not
being
ignorant
of
the
liberall
Arts
and
Sciences
,
and
exceedingly
qualified
in
the
seven
deadly
sinnes
.
And
(
for
her
further
behoofe
)
shee
hath
and
insight
and
can
fashion
her selfe
to
the
humors
of
all
Nations
,
degrees
,
conditions
,
mysteries
and
occupations
.
First
,
for
her
knowledges
in
the
Arts
and
Sciences
,
she
hath
the
grounds
of
a
Grammar
,
whereby
she
can
speake
and
write
Amorously
,
fainedly
,
merrily
,
lamentably
,
craftily
,
purposely
,
Bawdily
:
these
words
all
ending
in
Lye
(
doe
make
her
true
dealing
questionable
)
yet
her
ayme
is
to
live
profitably
,
though
her
fate
is
to
dye
miserably
.
Her
skill
in
b
Astronomy
cannot
be
small
,
for
shee
hath
beene
an
often
starre-gazer
lying
on
her
backe
,
practis'd
in
elevations
,
retrogradations
,
Conjunctions
,
and
planetary
revolutions
;
but
indeed
shee
is
more
addicted
to
accept
the
Moone
for
her
Mistresse
,
then
the
Sunne
for
her
Master
,
which
makes
her
expert
in
nightworkes
,
ever
changing
from
quarter
to
quarter
,
not
long
abiding
in
any
place
:
sometimes
shining
in
Lady-like
resplendant
brightnesse
with
admiration
,
and
suddenly
againe
eclipsed
with
the
pitchy
and
tenebrous
clouds
of
contempt
and
deserved
defamation
.
Sometimes
at
the
Full
at
Pickt-hatch
,
and
sometimes
in
the
Wane
at
Bridewell
,
A
Bawd
is
a
c
Logician
,
which
is
perceived
by
her
subtill
and
circumventing
speeches
,
doubtfull
and
ambiguous
Apothegmes
,
double
significations
,
intricate
,
witty
,
and
cunning
equivocations
,
(
like
a
skilfull
Fencer
that
casts
his
eye
upon
a
mans
foot
,
and
hits
him
a
knock
on
the
pate
)
so
she
,
by
going
the
further
about
,
comes
the
neerer
home
,
and
by
casting
out
the
Lure
,
makes
the
Tassel-gentle
come
to
her
fist
.
For
Rhetoricke
,
she
must
have
the
Theoricke
and
Practicke
,
that
though
the
subject
of
her
Discourse
or
writing
be
foule
and
deformed
,
yet
must
shee
(
like
a
d
Medicine-monger
,
Quack-salver
,
that
covers
his
bitter
pils
in
Sugar
)
with
the
Embroidery
of
her
Ecquence
,
flourish
over
her
immodest
pretences
,
under
the
inchanting
and
various
colours
of
pleasure
,
profit
,
estimation
,
love
,
reputation
,
and
many
more
the
like
.
But
of
all
the
e
Arts
,
I
think
she
be
most
unperfect
in
Arithmaticke
;
for
though
she
hath
been
brought
up
to
know
Divisions
&
Multiplications
,
yet
shee
hath
traded
but
by
Retaile
,
altogether
in
Fractions
and
broken
Numbers
,
so
that
her
accounts
were
seldome
or
never
to
number
her
dayes
,
not
caring
for
the
Past
or
the
Future
,
her
mind
(
like
a
Diall
)
alwayes
fixed
upon
the
Present
given
much
to
over
and
under-reckonings
,
for
at
fourty
yeeres
old
she
would
be
but
twenty
one
,
&
at
threescore
she
will
be
no
lesse
then
fourescore
:
so
that
the
marke
being
out
of
her
mouth
,
we
must
take
the
Apocryphall
account
of
her
age
from
her
owne
Arithmaticke
without
any
further
warrant
.
Cornelius
Agrippa
approves
a
Bawd
for
an
excellent
a
Geometrician
for
devising
engines
to
climbe
into
windowes
,
as
ladders
of
Ropes
,
or
such
like
,
to
scale
the
castle
of
comfort
in
the
night
,
or
the
making
of
Picklocks
or
false
keyes
,
wherein
the
Bawds
care
and
providence
is
great
,
in
greazing
&
oyling
locks
,
bolts
and
hinges
,
to
avoid
noyse
,
she
knowes
her
Angles
,
Triangles
,
quadrangles
,
squares
,
rounds
,
circles
,
semicircles
and
centers
,
her
altitudes
,
longitudes
,
latitudes
and
dimensions
;
yet
for
all
this
skill
of
hers
,
she
hath
much
adoe
to
live
squarely
,
according
to
Geometricall
rules
,
or
to
live
within
any
reasonable
Compasse
.
As
for
b
Musicke
,
it
is
to
be
conjectured
by
her
long
practise
in
Prickesong
,
that
there
is
not
any
note
above
Ela
,
or
below
Gammoth
,
but
she
knows
the
Diapason
:
(
a
Bawd
is
old
dog
at
a
Hornepipe
.
her
chiefest
Instrument
is
a
Sackbut
,
her
female
minikins
do
bring
in
her
Meanes
,
and
her
Trebles
,
the
Tenor
of
all
is
that
her selfe
is
the
Base
.
)
Besides
,
there
are
many
pretty
provocatory
Dances
,
as
the
Kissing
dance
,
the
Cushin
dance
,
the
Shaking
of
the
sheets
,
and
such
like
,
which
are
important
instrumentall
causes
,
whereby
the
skilfull
hath
both
clients
and
custome
.
c
Poetry
many
times
(
though
shee
understand
it
not
)
doth
her
as
good
service
;
for
the
most
of
our
great
Bawds
are
diligently
waited
on
by
scurrilous
oylie
sonneting
,
practicall
,
Poeticall
,
Panegyricall
Panders
,
quaint
trencher
Epigrammatists
,
hungry
and
needy
Anagrammongers
,
their
conceits
being
either
commending
or
provoking
Bawdry
:
as
one
being
requested
by
a
Gentleman
to
invent
him
a
poesie
for
a
Ring
which
hee
ment
to
give
his
Love
,
the
conceit
was
:
Have
you
any
Logges
to
cleave
?
a
Painting
and
graving
are
now
and
then
profitable
servants
to
Bawds
,
as
the
naked
Pictures
of
Venus
,
and
Diana
and
her
darlings
;
Aretine
,
and
divers
other
in
that
kinde
can
testifie
;
but
commonly
all
shee
-
Bawds
,
are
or
have
beene
painters
themselves
or
painters
of
themselves
,
by
which
bold
practice
they
are
bold
,
adventrous
,
impudent
,
and
audacious
,
fearing
no
colours
.
As
for
b
Physické
and
Chirurgery
,
she
hath
beene
so
much
practis'd
vpon
,
that
by
long
continuance
,
shee
's
a
most
excellent
Empericke
,
so
that
a
man
need
not
doubt
but
an
ancient
professed
Bawd
can
play
the
Mountebanke
.
Moreover
,
many
old
Bawds
are
skil'd
in
c
Palmestry
or
Chiromancy
,
by
looking
into
the
hand
of
a
man
or
woman
,
or
Phisiognomy
,
and
Metoposcopi
,
in
viewing
of
the
face
or
forehead
,
by
which
shee
professeth
to
tell
the
parties
how
many
husbands
or
wives
they
shall
have
,
how
long
they
shall
live
,
when
they
are
neere
a
good
or
bad
turne
;
but
above
all
,
her
skill
is
much
credited
to
helpe
yong
women
breed
and
fructifie
,
so
that
if
shee
be
as
barren
as
a
Stockfish
,
yet
the
matronly
medicines
and
instructions
of
this
wise
cunning
woman
,
will
in
a
little
time
make
her
encrease
with
a
vengeance
,
and
multiply
with
a
mischiefe
.
Besides
her
skill
in
these
forenamed
Arts
and
sciences
,
she
hath
an
insight
and
practice
into
all
Mysteries
and
manuall
trades
;
she
can
imitate
a
deceitfull
d
Mercer
in
setting
out
her
ware
,
faire
to
the
eye
,
and
false
in
the
dye
,
with
an
outside
of
glorious
glosse
,
and
an
inside
of
rotten
decayed
drosse
,
more
for
pride
or
pleasure
,
then
for
providence
or
profit
.
Like
a
bold
a
Grocer
,
she
cares
not
a
Figge
for
any
man
,
she
knows
flesh
is
fraile
,
yet
she
hath
many
Reasons
to
live
by
,
she
runns
her
race
long
,
and
she
is
able
to
Pepper
as
many
as
have
any
dealing
with
her
;
tooth
Likorish
,
tongue
Lickorish
,
&c.
Shee
knowes
a
bribe
to
a
Catchpole
is
a
sufficient
as
an
Almond
for
a
Parrot
,
to
free
her
from
the
heate
of
the
Mace.
Master
Clove
at
the
signe
of
the
Sugar-loafe
,
is
a
sweet
youth
,
whose
Candied
Visitation
will
keepe
her
estate
Currant
till
age
and
diseases
weare
her
quite
out
of
date
.
b
A
young
rich
heire
newly
come
to
his
lands
or
portion
,
is
a
Bawds
Broadcloth
,
whom
she
measures
out
in
parts
,
I
will
not
tell
you
with
what
yard
,
but
I
thinke
no
London
measure
,
till
in
the
end
,
onely
a
poore
Remnant
remaines
;
her
meaner
Merchandise
are
Tradesmen
,
and
poore
Serving-men
;
these
serve
for
course
Kersies
,
Bayes
,
Cottons
,
and
Pennistones
,
to
line
her
inside
with
Sacke
,
Hot
waters
,
and
Aqua
vitae
.
Though
shee
live
after
the
flesh
,
all
is
c
Fish
that
comes
to
the
Net
with
her
;
shee
is
a
cunning
Angler
,
and
gets
her
living
by
hooke
or
by
crooke
,
shee
hath
bayts
for
all
kinde
of
Frye
:
A
great
Lord
is
her
Groneland
Whale
,
a
Countrey
Gentleman
is
her
Cods-head
,
a
rich
Citizens
sonne
is
her
Sows'd
Gurnet
,
or
her
Gudgeon
,
A
Puritan
is
her
Whiting-mopp
,
her
Lobster
is
a
Scarlet
Townsman
,
and
a
severe
Iustice
of
Peace
is
her
Crab
;
her
meanest
Customers
are
Sprats
and
Pilchards
,
whilest
the
Puncke
is
her
Salt
Eele
,
and
the
Pander
her
Sharke
&
Sword-fish
;
And
though
shee
deale
most
in
Scorpio
,
yet
shee
holds
correspondencie
with
Pisces
,
for
they
are
both
Signes
that
attend
upon
Venus
:
Friday
is
her
day
,
and
a
day
of
doome
to
more
Fish
then
all
the
dayes
in
the
weeke
beside
.
And
Fish
by
nature
is
provocatory
,
as
appeares
by
the
chaste
lives
of
fasting
fish-eating
Fryers
and
Nuns
,
whose
notorious
(
qusia
)
meritorious
continency
is
touched
partly
afore
.
She
differs
from
the
d
Goldsmith
in
the
Touch
,
the
Test
,
and
the
Weight
,
yet
she
puts
the
best
side
of
her
ware
outward
;
shee
casts
and
hammers
her
wenches
into
all
fashions
;
she
hath
them
burnished
,
polish'd
,
punsh'd
and
turn'd
,
and
if
any
of
them
by
a
fall
,
or
too
much
heat
bee
bruis'd
,
crack'd
,
or
broken
,
shee
can
soder
them
together
againe
,
and
make
them
marketable
.
There
is
scarce
any
Art
,
Mystery
,
Trade
or
Manuall
Occupation
,
but
a
Bawd
hath
a
reference
or
allusion
to
it
,
or
it
to
her
.
Therefore
to
runne
division
through
them
all
,
would
be
long
labour
to
little
purpose
:
In
which
respects
having
spoken
of
a
few
,
I
le
skip
over
the
rest
to
avoyd
tediousnesse
;
and
to
free
my selfe
from
the
imputation
of
partialitie
,
I
will
at
last
allude
her
to
a
Water-man
;
for
of
all
Degrees
,
Languages
,
Tongues
,
Nations
,
Ages
,
Sexes
,
Functions
,
and
Fraternities
are
welcome
and
well
entertain'd
to
the
one
and
the
other
(
provided
that
they
bring
money
in
their
purses
.
)
And
as
the
Waterman
rowes
one
way
,
and
looks
another
,
so
a
Bawds
words
and
meaning
doe
very
seldome
goe
together
.
Our
five
Senses
are
the
Cinque
Ports
of
Bawdry
,
each
one
in
his
office
being
the
Hearts
Baud
:
The
Hearing
conveyes
Tunes
,
Tales
,
Rymes
,
Riddles
,
Songs
,
Sonnets
,
and
Madrigals
.
The
Sigh●
wanders
,
searcheth
,
seekes
,
finds
and
brings
hom●
(
into
the
very
bedchamber
of
the
heart
)
amoro●●
actions
:
provocatory
gestures
,
effeminate
glances
,
alluring
lookes
,
pictures
of
prostitution
,
and
veneriall
vanities
.
The
Taste
playes
the
Bawd
with
both
Art
and
Nature
,
and
searcheth
through
the
Earth
,
Seas
and
Skies
for
variety
of
temptation
poore
and
innocent
Lamstones
,
Potatoes
,
Eringoes
Crabs
,
Scallops
.
Lobsters
,
Wilkes
,
Cockles
,
Oysters
,
Anchoves
and
Caveare
,
Cock-sparrowes
,
Coxcombe-pyes
,
and
all
manner
of
feathered
fowle
from
the
Eagle
to
the
Wren
,
doe
waite
vpon
the
Taste
,
and
the
Taste
attends
the
appetite
.
The
Snul
is
the
senting
Bawd
,
that
huffs
and
snuffs
up
and
downe
,
and
hath
the
game
alwayes
in
the
winde
,
that
is
a
right
smell-smocke
sense
,
who
is
wonderfully
pleased
to
be
led
by
the
nose
,
can
hunt
dry
foot
,
and
smell
out
venery
nimbler
then
a
pinchgut
Vsurer
will
nose
out
a
feast
.
Touching
or
Feeling
is
a
very
merry
Bawd
and
though
a
man
or
woman
can
neither
Heare
,
See
,
Taste
or
Smell
,
yet
Feeling
may
remaine
:
It
is
the
last
sense
that
keeps
vs
companie
,
and
were
it
not
for
feeling
,
all
the
rest
of
the
sences
were
but
senceslesse
.
And
thus
much
more
in
excuse
of
a
Bawd
,
though
shee
live
by
one
of
the
Seaven
Deadly
Sinnes
which
is
Lechery
;
No
man
can
deny
Pride
too
be
●●other
of
the
said
Septarchy
,
yet
the
Mercer
,
the
Silkeman
,
the
Embroyderer
,
the
Drawer
,
the
Cutter
,
the
Taylor
&
the
Feather-maker
,
the
new
fashion-monger
,
the
Divell
and
all
thrive
by
Pride
,
and
might
shut
up
shop
,
if
Pride
were
not
.
Gluttonie
and
Drunkennesse
is
another
of
the
brood
,
yet
were
it
not
for
superfluous
,
voluptuous
gurmandizing
,
and
extraordinary
swinish
swilling
and
drinking
;
the
Wine-Merchant
,
the
Vintner
,
the
Malt-man
,
the
Brewer
,
the
Tapster
,
Poulterer
,
the
sellers
of
Eringoes
and
Potatoes
,
and
the
Cooke
would
have
but
very
cold
takings
.
Couetousnesse
is
another
whelpe
of
the
same
kind
,
yet
were
it
not
for
ravenous
oppression
,
devouring
Extortion
,
biting
Vsury
,
Bribery
,
Detoir
,
and
Coozenage
,
Dives
would
not
,
or
could
not
fare
deliciously
and
bee
clad
in
Purple
,
nor
the
hackney
Coach
bee
in
such
common
request
.
Envie
is
a
high
point
of
State
,
and
he
is
no
perfect
Politician
that
repines
not
at
the
happinesse
of
all
men
(
but
himselfe
:
)
commonly
it
gives
due
attendance
in
Princes
Courts
,
and
feedes
vpon
the
detraction
of
Noble
actions
;
It
eates
into
honour
as
a
Canker
doth
into
the
best
and
choysest
fruit
,
yet
doth
it
live
,
thrive
,
weare
good
cloathes
,
is
esteemed
a
talent
of
high
wisedome
and
valour
.
Wrath
is
a
blood-hound
of
the
aforesaid
kennell
,
yet
Armourers
,
Cutlers
,
Fencers
,
Chyrgians
,
and
Bone-setters
would
bee
idle
,
and
vnimployment
and
meanes
,
if
Wraeth
did
not
overcome
Patience
,
and
Madnesse
dispossesse
Discretion
and
Reason
.
Sloth
is
the
last
of
the
list
,
(
and
wel
may
it
come
last
,
because
it
is
the
laziest
)
yet
is
it
a
Gentleman
like
quality
,
and
a
Lady-like
disposition
to
be
idle
and
live
upon
the
sweat
of
others
;
Manuall
trade
or
handicrafts
are
counted
base
and
mercenary
,
a
good
industry
is
contemptible
;
laudable
endevour
Mechanicall
,
and
to
take
paines
and
labour
,
is
drudgery
and
meere
slavery
.
Thus
by
Pride
a
man
may
come
to
bee
one
of
the
Masters
of
his
Parish
;
by
Gluttony
and
Drunkennesse
,
he
may
hap
to
mount
to
a
place
of
reputation
and
worship
;
by
Covetousnesse
he
may
get
a
damnable
deale
of
wealth
,
and
be
accounted
a
good
man
;
by
Envy
,
he
may
be
esteemed
conceited
,
politike
,
grave
and
wise
:
by
Wrath
hee
may
gain
the
titles
of
valiant
and
resolute
;
and
by
Sloth
and
Idlenesse
hee
may
be
perfectly
knowne
for
a
Ge●●man
:
*
And
is
it
not
a
wonder
,
that
these
sixe
deadly
sinnes
,
should
bee
so
uncharitable
to
the
seventh
,
as
to
rob
it
of
all
earthly
reputation
,
where
if
a
man
doe
consider
them
rightly
,
there
is
never
a
barrell
better
Herring
;
nor
doth
the
Bawd
live
in
a
worse
estate
or
condition
,
than
the
Proudest
Gluttonous
Drunkard
,
or
the
most
Covetous
,
Envious
wretch
:
The
Wrathfull
bloudy
villaine
,
or
the
idle
slothfull
drone
,
are
clogd
with
vices
as
vile
and
abominable
as
a
Bawd
,
yet
for
all
this
,
the
purblind
partiall
world
doth
hugge
,
embrace
,
cherish
and
reverence
all
these
enormities
,
onely
a
Bawd
,
a
silly
painfull
,
serviceable
Bawd
,
is
held
odious
and
contemptible
.
Commonly
most
of
the
shee
-
Bawds
have
a
peculiar
priviledge
more
than
other
women
:
for
generally
they
are
not
starveling
creatures
,
but
well
larded
and
embost
with
fat
,
so
that
a
Bawd
hath
her
mouth
three
stories
of
Chinnes
high
,
and
is
a
well-fed
Embleme
of
plentie
;
and
though
shee
bee
but
of
small
estimation
,
yet
is
she
alwayes
taken
for
a
great
woman
amongst
her
neighbours
.
*
On
former
Shrove-Tuesdayes
,
when
the
unruly
Rabble
did
falsely
take
upon
them
the
name
of
London
Prentices
,
then
two
or
three
thousand
of
those
boot-haling
pillaging
Rascalls
,
vvould
march
madly
to
the
habitations
of
the
most
famous
Bawds
,
where
they
would
robustiously
venter
,
breaking
open
Doores
,
battring
downe
Wals
,
tearing
downe
tyles
,
pulling
downe
windowes
,
rending
Trunkes
,
Chestes
,
Cupboords
,
Tables
,
and
Bedsteads
in
pieces
;
ripping
and
embowelling
Bolsters
and
Featherbeds
,
ravishing
her
mayds
or
stale
virgins
,
spoyling
all
they
stole
not
,
and
stealing
what
they
liked
,
beating
the
grave
Bawd
,
and
all
her
female
vermine
,
most
unmanly
and
vnmannerly
.
In
all
which
uncivill
civill
hostilitie
,
the
singular
patience
of
the
Bawd
,
is
worthy
admiration
;
not
giving
any
of
these
landsharkes
an
ill
word
,
or
shewing
any
signe
of
anger
or
desire
of
revenge
,
but
intreating
the
most
rough-hewd
Rogues
in
the
company
,
with
the
stiles
of
honest
worthy
Gentlemen
with
I
pray
you
,
I
humbly
desire
you
,
I
heartily
-
beseech
you
,
to
asswage
your
fury
,
appease
your
wrath
mollifie
your
anger
,
suppresse
your
ire
,
mitigate
your
rage
.
These
and
like
Phrases
a
modest
ancient
Bawd
would
discreetly
vtter
to
her
greatest
enemies
,
rendring
good
words
for
bad
deedes
,
when
they
were
doing
or
had
done
to
her
all
the
mischiefes
before
named
,
nor
ever
after
would
shee
offer
to
take
any
legall
course
,
as
to
cause
them
to
bee
brought
before
a
Iustice
,
whereby
the
Law
might
in
some
sort
give
her
satisfaction
.
In
which
sufferance
the
great
patience
of
a
Bawd
is
remarkable
.
We
doe
esteeme
a
Fountaine
,
Well
,
or
Spring
to
be
the
more
cleere
from
poyson
,
if
a
Toad
,
Newt
,
or
a
snake
,
be
in
either
of
them
,
for
we
imagine
that
those
venimous
creatures
doe
sucke
or
extract
all
the
contagion
of
that
Christaline
Element
into
themselves
.
a
In
the
like
nature
,
a
Bawd
is
the
snuffers
of
the
Common-wealth
,
and
the
most
wholesome
or
necessary
Wheele-barrow
or
Tumbrell
,
for
the
close
conveyance
of
mans
luxurious
nastinesse
,
and
sordid
beastiality
.
Ravens
,
Kites
,
Crowes
,
and
many
other
birds
of
prey
,
are
tolerated
to
live
unhurt
,
not
for
any
good
that
is
in
themselves
,
but
because
they
doe
good
offices
in
devouring
and
carying
away
our
Garbage
and
noysome
excrements
,
which
they
live
by
;
and
if
they
were
not
our
voluntary
Scavengers
,
we
should
be
much
annoyed
with
contagious
savours
of
these
corrupted
offals
.
These
are
the
right
paternes
of
an
industrious
Bawd
,
for
shee
pickes
her
living
out
of
the
laystall
on
dunghil
of
our
vices
;
if
she
thrive
and
grow
fat
,
it
is
with
the
Merdurinous
draffe
of
our
imperfections
,
(
for
shee
is
seldome
beholding
to
an
honest
man
for
so
much
as
a
meales
meat
)
she
robs
not
the
vertuous
of
any
part
of
their
virtue
,
she
lives
only
by
the
vicious
,
and
in
this
sort
she
is
an
executioner
of
sinners
,
and
in
the
end
gives
the
most
wicked
cause
to
repent
,
leaving
them
such
aking
remembrance
in
their
joynts
,
that
their
very
bones
rattle
in
their
skins
.
In
other
trades
,
when
Apprentices
come
out
of
their
yeares
,
they
are
allowed
to
set
up
for
themselves
,
and
to
have
other
Apprentices
under
them
.
He
that
hath
been
a
Grammar
Scholler
,
when
hee
commeth
to
ripenesse
of
learning
and
judgement
,
will
thinke
himselfe
able
and
sufficient
to
bee
a
Schoolemaster
,
and
to
have
Schollers
under
him
:
and
why
should
not
b
Whores
have
a
Mistresse
of
their
owne
dealing-trade
,
that
they
may
have
Apprentices
under
their
nurture
and
discipline
,
who
may
by
their
obedience
in
their
minoritie
,
be
advanced
to
command
others
in
the
same
mysterie
or
occupation
?
And
therfore
the
law
(
in
this
point
)
favouring
their
vocation
,
why
should
any
Consorious
Cato
plead
the
Law
for
banishing
of
any
Bawdes
?
Why
should
any
Ecclesiasticall
Lawes
in
Forraigne
Countreyes
,
debarre
Bawds
and
their
disciples
from
the
Sacrament
;
as
if
they
were
not
i●●
Charity
,
when
as
they
are
knowne
to
be
so
Catholikely
charitable
,
that
they
extend
their
c
loue
to
all
without
exception
,
and
are
ready
enough
to
forgive
all
the
world
,
knowing
themselves
to
be
such
great
offenders
,
that
they
much
need
forgivenesse
?
Wel
fare
d
the
Common-wealth
plotted
to
Plato
,
who
would
have
no
woman
appropriate
to
any
man
(
it
seemes
he
was
a
great
enemie
against
inclosures
,
who
would
have
all
thus
lye
common
)
his
reason
was
very
Phylosophicall
,
the
like
whereof
is
not
to
bee
found
either
in
Don
Quixot
,
or
Sir
Thomas
Moores
Vtopia
,
namely
,
that
when
no
child
had
any
proper
father
,
every
man
would
love
every
childe
as
his
owne
,
and
so
the
whole
City
should
be
happy
in
a
Combination
of
an
universall
love
equally
extended
to
all
.
If
so
wise
a
man
as
Plato
,
was
not
ashamed
to
make
himselfe
the
universall
Bawd
of
a
whole
Common-wealth
,
why
should
any
of
our
unlearned
neighbours
that
have
read
farre
fewer
Bookes
then
hee
,
bee
ashamed
to
bee
accounted
procuring
Panders
in
one
house
,
in
the
skirts
of
a
City
,
for
the
Platonicall
Conjunction
of
their
neighbours
within
a
street
or
two
adjoyning
.
*
In
Italy
and
most
civill
Countreys
,
it
is
counted
a
most
vncivill
curiosity
to
aske
any
man
(
though
after
long
acquaintance
)
of
what
religion
he
is
,
or
whence
he
commeth
,
or
whither
he
goeth
,
or
whether
hee
bee
a
marryed
man
,
or
intend
to
marry
.
Who
then
more
civill
or
fairely
mannered
then
the
Bawdes
:
or
they
never
put
any
of
their
customers
to
the
racke
to
confesse
,
nor
doe
they
torture
their
guests
with
the
sawcy
inquiry
of
whence
come
you
?
How
long
will
you
tarry
in
Towne
?
Have
you
a
wife
at
home
Or
are
you
a
loose
Batchelor
?
are
you
a
Gentleman
?
a
Merchant
,
or
Tradesman
?
are
you
a
Catholike
,
or
reformed
?
the
Bawd
I
say
,
is
so
civill
,
that
shee
never
will
aske
any
of
these
questions
;
one
thing
onely
she
studieth
and
practiseth
,
which
is
diligently
to
demand*
whether
a
man
have
any
mony
in
his
purse
,
which
is
no
impertinent
question
:
for
the
Law
doth
authorize
a
Landlor
to
demand
his
Rent
vpon
the
ground
where
it
is
due
,
although
sometimes
hee
lets
his
tenant
enjoy
his
house
or
land
a
quarter
,
of
halfe
a
yeere
before
he
receive
any
rent
:
A
waterman
sweats
and
lands
his
fare
before
he
lookes
for
mony
.
The
Host
suffers
his
guest
to
eate
his
meate
,
before
anon
,
anon
,
with
the
white
Apron
comes
in
with
thus
much
to
pay
,
and
yee
are
welcome
;
no
man
at
any
game
takes
up
his
winnings
before
the
Game
be
wonne
;
an
Vsurer
takes
no
forfeit
before
the
day
of
payment
be
part
;
but
the
Bawd
in
her
demand
is
more
wise
and
provident
,
then
all
these
trades
and
functions
,
for
shee
like
a
Butcher
takes
present
pay
for
her
flesh
,
she
will
be
sure
to
have
her
wages
before
she
afford
you
her
penny-worth
,
you
shall
not
drinke
at
her
muddy
Well
before
you
pay
for
it
.
Shee
knowes
that
Hope
and
Desire
of
that
which
is
to
come
,
is
a
better
paymaster
,
then
grudging
remembrance
of
fruition
of
that
which
is
past
.
Herein
shee
hath
good
examples
to
follow
of
no
meane
vocatious
,
the
learned
Physician
and
Chirurgian
would
be
loth
to
exspect
their
reward
till
the
cure
be
performed
;
the
honestest
Lawyer
would
plead
but
coldly
if
he
might
receive
no
Fees
till
his
clients
cause
were
judged
.
A
Fencer
will
fight
but
faintly
if
he
should
take
no
mony
before
his
prize
were
plaid
&
the
Players
on
their
Publike
stage
would
act
very
poorly
if
their
audience
did
not
pay
at
their
first
comming
in
.
The
greedy
haling
and
pulling
of
other
mens
goods
,
or
insatiate
appetite
to
feed
,
ingurgitate
,
guzzle
and
swill
,
are
apparant
markes
or
tokens
of
Intemperance
;
who
then
more
Temperate
then
a
Bawd
?
for
*
shee
is
so
full
of
modestie
that
she
lives
onely
vpon
what
people
doe
give
her
:
Men
doe
voluntarily
bring
her
revenues
to
her
,
shee
kindly
takes
no
more
then
shee
can
get
,
nor
receives
any
thing
but
what
is
brought
her
,
and
as
the
Taylor
steales
not
at
all
,
because
men
do
frely
(
and
vnconstrained
)
deliver
their
goods
to
him
;
even
so
,
the
Bawd
cannot
be
taxed
with
depriving
any
man
of
more
then
he
idley
parts
withall
.
Wise
men
have
said
,
that
vertue
hath
no
great
praise
where
there
is
no
allurement
or
temptation
to
vice
,
and
therefore
have
accounted
it
but
small
mastery
for
a
Iudge
to
be
uncorrupt
where
there
are
no
bribes
stirring
,
for
a
poore
Clowne
to
bee
humble
that
hath
neither
money
nor
Cloathes
to
bee
proud
of
;
for
a
Drunkard
to
bee
sober
where
is
no
drinke
but
faire
water
;
for
a
notorious
thiefe
to
refraine
from
filching
,
where
there
is
not
any
thing
to
steale
;
or
for
one
to
live
chast
in
a
Monasterie
or
Nunnery
:
But
here
is
the
eminency
of
abstinence
,
and
the
true
praise
of
vertue
,
for
a
man
to
fast
at
a
delicious
feast
;
to
be
deere
from
bribes
or
gentle
rewards
,
where
oppressions
,
extortions
,
strifes
and
contentions
doe
continually
grow
and
multiply
:
To
be
sober
and
thirsty
where
wines
and
strong
drinkes
are
plenty
in
variety
;
to
be
true
and
trustie
amongst
inestimable
Iewels
,
vncountable
Treasure
,
or
untold
Gold.
These
are
superarogating
vertues
,
which
though
many
boast
of
,
yet
few
attaine
to
:
now
the
Bawd
lives
in
the
store-house
of
libidinous
confraternity
,
in
the
shop
of
Venery
,
in
the
Garden
of
lacivious
pleasure
,
in
the
Ever-growing
and
Flourishing
field
of
vanity
;
amongst
those
that
practise
the
excesse
of
Luxury
,
none
so
neere
within
ken
of
wantonnesse
and
dalliance
;
shee
admits
into
her
house
men
flourishing
in
yeeres
,
hot
in
their
desires
,
and
willing
in
performance
,
yet
(
for
ought
I
know
)
*
a
Bawd
was
never
accused
for
cōmitting
fornication
in
her
owne
person
,
(
which
is
a
rare
marke
of
abstinence
)
for
who
can
produce
out
of
any
record
,
that
a
Bawd
was
ever
carted
for
playing
the
Whore
?
And
this
is
her
comfort
when
she
is
carted
,
that
shee
rides
when
all
her
followers
goe
on
foot
,
that
every
Dunghill
payes
her
homage
,
and
every
Taverne
looking-glasse
powres
bountifull
reflection
vpon
her
,
the
streets
and
windowes
are
full
of
spectators
of
her
pompe
.
Shouts
,
acclamations
and
ringing
on
well
tuned
Banbury
kettle-drums
,
and
barbarous
Basins
,
proclaime
and
sound
forth
her
triumphant
progresse
,
whilest
shee
rides
embrodered
all
over
like
a
Lady
of
the
soyle
,
conducted
in
state
out
of
the
Easterne
suburbs
,
to
set
vp
her
trade
fresh
and
new
in
the
West
.
As
concerning
Religion
or
matters
of
*
Conscience
,
shee
is
a
creature
that
will
never
runne
mad
with
beating
her
braines
in
any
point
of
such
high
quality
.
For
whereas
it
is
a
speech
or
proverbe
,
to
say
,
that
an
extortioner
,
vsurer
,
or
corrupted
Magistrate
hath
a
Large
Conscience
,
so
on
the
other
part
,
it
is
a
saying
,
that
such
a
man
or
woman
hath
no
Conscience
:
now
betweene
these
extremes
of
large
and
none
,
the
Bawd
doth
observe
the
mediocrity
or
meane
:
for
to
say
that
shee
hath
a
large
catholike
or
universall
Conscience
,
to
entertaine
all
comers
,
or
all
that
would
come
to
her
,
is
false
,
for
her
conscience
is
bounded
,
caged
,
and
imprisoned
,
&
limited
in
any
man
purse
or
pocket
,
of
what
estate
,
condition
or
Religion
soever
.
On
the
contrary
,
to
say
that
shee
hath
no
Conscience
at
all
,
it
were
to
doe
her
an
open
injury
,
for
she
doth
extend
her
entertainement
,
to
as
many
as
please
to
please
her
,
and
her
charity
doth
alwayes
stretch
as
farre
as
any
mans
money
will
reach
:
And
to
speake
the
truth
,
shee
hath
great
reason
on
her
side
;
for
if
a
man
let
his
Horse
to
hire
,
or
Asse
to
marker
,
hee
will
looke
to
be
paid
for
the
travell
or
paines
of
his
Beast
;
and
shall
a
Bawd
let
her
Soule
to
the
Devill
for
nothing
?
A
Knight
of
the
Poast
will
not
hazzard
damnation
(
and
his
eares
to
the
Pillory
to
boote
)
but
(
if
hee
be
wise
)
hee
will
be
well
paid
for
his
labour
.
Will
any
great
man
oppresse
and
undoe
a
whole
Country
,
and
(
with
the
losse
of
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
)
purchase
an
accursed
portion
of
Earth
,
but
that
hee
will
have
terrestriall
Angels
minister
to
him
here
,
making
no
account
of
the
celestiall
hereafter
?
And
shall
the
Conscience
of
a
Bawd
be
Pinfolded
so
straitly
,
that
her
Soule
shall
be
of
losse
esteeme
than
a
Hackney
man
makes
of
his
Horse
or
Asse
?
or
a
swearing
and
forswearing
Rogue
doth
of
his
eares
?
no
,
no
my
Masters
,
shee
is
wiser
than
so
,
shee
thinkes
it
is
a
long
journey
to
Hell
,
and
therefore
she
doth
thristily
provide
to
save
charges
,
that
other
men
shall
pay
for
her
passage
or
Coach-hire
:
shee
will
not
travell
so
farre
upon
her
owne
cost
shee
is
so
well
beloved
,
that
every
one
of
her
customers
(
will
or
must
)
give
her
something
toward
the
reckoning
,
she
hath
more
policie
in
her
than
to
be
damn'd
for
nothing
;
and
she
scornes
to
usurpe
a
place
in
Hell
without
just
title
or
desert
.
As
for
her
Religion
,
it
is
of
the
same
piece
as
her
Conscience
is
,
there
went
but
a
paire
of
sheeres
betweene
;
with
the
Papist
shee
will
be
Ceremonious
for
the
*
Crosse
,
with
the
Puritane
,
shee
will
be
precise
,
casting
her
eyes
up
,
when
her
thoughts
are
downe
,
and
accept
the
*
Pyle
;
shee
hath
so
brought
up
her
schollers
,
that
the
name
of
God
is
too
often
in
their
mouthes
,
for
they
will
sweare
either
with
or
without
occasion
;
and
as
concerning
maters
of
truth
,
shee
hath
brought
them
up
so
,
that
they
will
lye
with
any
man.
Most
of
them
are
of
the
sect
of
the
Family
of
Love
,
they
differ
onely
in
this
,
the
Familists
doe
hold
opinion
,
that
onely
when
the
husband
sleeps
,
that
the
wife
may
take
as
much
liberty
as
a
Cat
,
to
play
,
&c.
but
the
Bawd
doth
allow
a
larger
toleration
,
and
admits
either
man
or
woman
to
have
accesse
,
and
use
their
exercise
both
sleeping
and
waking
.
Shee
is
indeed
addicted
to
any
Religion
,
or
all
,
or
none
,
no
further
than
her
ease
and
profit
doth
incite
her
,
for
she
knowes
that
charity
is
a
good
huswife
,
and
will
begin
her
owne
work
at
home
first
:
In
which
respect
a
Bawd
holds
a
high
point
of
Doctrine
,
to
love
her selfe
better
then
she
doth
all
the
world
besides
:
and
in
this
she
differs
much
from
a
Romane
Catholike
,
that
she
builds
not
vpon
her
Workes
,
or
hath
any
hope
to
be
saved
by
her
merits
.
And
should
persecution
come
,
she
will
be
no
Martyr
,
she
will
neither
hang
for
one
religion
,
or
burne
for
another
,
shee
knowes
that
she
came
a
raw
creature
into
the
world
,
and
her
resolution
is
,
that
neither
religion
or
conscience
shall
send
her
roasted
out
of
it
.
And
thus
I
would
have
the
Reader
to
consider
;
that
the
paines
that
J
have
taken
in
this
description
of
a
Bawd
,
is
more
then
I
would
willingly
doe
for
the
honestest
woman
that
dwels
betweene
Smithfield-barres
and
Clerkenwell
,
and
I
know
that
there
is
not
any
of
the
trade
so
ingratefull
,
but
that
if
my selfe
or
any
friend
of
mine
have
occasion
to
vse
them
,
they
will
doe
their
best
for
me
,
and
goe
as
neere
as
they
can
to
take
our
money
.
Neither
have
I
discoursed
of
any
vpstart
new
fangled
bable
or
toy
,
but
of
an
ancient
solid
,
reall
,
and
lasting
thing
,
for
when
all
trades
are
trade-falne
and
broken
,
a
Bawd
may
set
up
with
little
worth
,
or
a
thing
of
naught
,
and
many
times
her
lucke
is
so
fortunate
,
that
she
will
*
extract
out
of
sinne
and
wickednesse
,
good
money
,
good
cloathes
,
good
meat
,
and
almost
good
any
thing
,
but
good
conscience
:
but
that
is
but
a
poore
beggerly
vertue
,
which
her
contrary
nature
cannot
agree
withall
,
for
shee
knowes
by
old
experience
that
it
hath
vndone
many
,
and
that
they
are
accounted
none
of
the
wisest
,
that
make
any
account
or
reckoning
of
it
.
I
am
sorry
that
I
have
not
dedicated
this
Booke
to
some
great
Patron
or
Patronesse
:
but
the
world
is
so
hard
to
please
,
that
I
thinke
it
an
easier
matter
to
displease
all
,
then
every
way
fully
to
please
one
;
for
I
did
lately
write
a
small
Pamphlet
in
the
praise
of
cleane
Linnen
,
which
I
did
dedicate
to
a
neat
,
spruce
,
prime
,
principall
and
superexellent
Landresse
,
and
shee
in
stead
of
protecting
my
labours
,
or
sheltring
my
good
and
painfull
study
,
doth
not
onely
expresse
her
liberality
in
giving
me
nothing
,
but
also
shee
depraves
and
deprives
me
of
that
small
tallent
and
portion
of
wit
and
Poetry
which
nature
hath
given
or
lent
me
;
most
untruely
affirming
and
reporting
,
that
that
Pamphlet
was
the
invention
of
a
grave
and
learned
friend
of
mine
,
(
whose
imployments
are
so
urgent
and
eminent
,
and
whose
capacitie
is
so
mature
and
approved
)
that
not
one
line
,
word
,
sillable
,
or
letter
is
in
that
poore
toy
,
but
it
is
so
farre
unlike
a
wiseman
,
that
they
all
,
and
every
one
,
doe
most
truely
and
obediently
call
,
Iohn
Taylor
,
Father
.
But
belike
she
hath
learned
some
frugall
quallities
,
of
some
who
are
more
honoured
and
worshiped
,
then
honorable
or
worshipfull
,
who
take
it
for
a
point
of
thrifty
wisdom
to
discomend
wher
they
doe
not
meane
to
reward
.
It
is
a
kind
of
policy
,
under
which
many
better
labours
then
mine
have
suffred
persecution
and
Martyrdome
;
and
belike
my
unkind
Patronesse
is
ambitious
to
follow
the
example
of
her
betters
.
But
I
would
have
her
to
know
,
that
if
shee
had
but
gratefully
accepted
my
Booke
of
Cleane
Linnen
,
that
then
I
would
have
cudgeld
and
canvasde
my
Muse
,
I
would
have
rowz'd
my
spirits
,
belabour'd
my
Invention
,
beaten
my
braines
,
thump'd
,
bumbasted
,
strapadoed
,
lambski'nd
,
and
clapperclaw'd
my
Wits
,
to
have
mounted
her
praise
one
and
thirtie
yards
(
London
measure
)
beyond
the
Moone
.
But
ingratiude
is
the
poyson
of
industry
,
&
detraction
is
the
destruction
of
good
endevours
,
for
the
which
sinnes
of
hers
,
I
will
allot
her
no
other
punishment
but
this
,
that
shee
shall
remaine
as
shee
was
and
is
,
the
true
wife
to
an
honest
Cobler
,
A
cleanly
,
trusty
,
chast
,
loving
and
well-beloved
Landresse
;
whom
(
when
the
fates
and
destinies
shall
deprive
Chancery-Lane
of
)
then
many
polluted
and
slovenly
Linnen
soylers
shall
lament
in
soule
bands
,
blacke
cuffes
,
and
mourning
shirts
.
a
As
Sloth
and
idlenesse
are
vices
discommended
in
all
Lawes
and
Common-wealths
,
being
enormites
of
that
high
nature
and
vile
condition
that
they
have
ruined
whole
Kingdomes
,
Cities
,
families
,
and
many
particular
persons
;
so
on
the
contrary
,
diligence
,
industry
and
carefull
vigilancy
,
are
qualities
that
doe
not
onely
erect
States
and
Commonwealths
,
but
they
doe
also
conserve
and
preserve
whomsoever
shall
put
them
in
use
and
practice
:
who
then
is
more
vigilant
or
industrious
then
a
diligent
Bawd
,
shee
is
none
of
the
seven
Sleepers
,
nay
she
carefully
watcheth
whilst
others
sleepe
,
shee
takes
paines
for
the
pleasure
of
many
,
shee
is
the
true
Embleme
or
Image
of
security
,
her
eyes
like
carefull
&
trusty
scouts
or
spies
doe
foresee
&
prevent
the
danger
of
Mr
Busiman
the
Constable
with
his
ragged
,
rusty
regiment
.
Moreover
,
shee
is
not
like
a
ship
bound
for
Groneland
,
which
must
saile
but
in
summer
,
or
a
pot
of
ale
wth
a
roast
,
which
is
onely
in
winter
:
no
let
the
winde
blow
where
it
will
,
her
care
is
such
,
that
it
brings
her
prize
&
purchase
all
seasons
,
her
b
pinkes
are
fraughted
,
her
Pinnaces
are
man'd
,
her
friggors
are
rig'd
(
from
the
beakhead
to
the
Poope
)
and
if
any
of
her
vessels
be
boorded
by
Pyrats
,
and
shot
betwixt
wind
&
water
,
they
are
so
furnished
with
engines
,
that
they
le
send
them
packing
with
a
pox
,
or
else
blow
them
quite
up
with
a
Devils
name
:
there
is
not
a
poynt
in
the
compasse
but
the
skilfull
c
Bawd
observes
,
if
the
wind
be
North
or
North-east
,
she
expects
profits
out
of
the
Low-countries
,
from
Germany
,
Denmarke
,
Norway
,
and
sometimes
a
prize
from
Scotland
;
if
at
South
or
S.
west
,
then
her
hopes
are
from
France
;
but
Spaine
&
Italy
doe
seldome
or
never
faile
her
;
And
let
it
blow
high
or
low
,
the
Englishman
is
neere
on
all
occasions
.
Shee
hath
not
bin
much
accused
for
receiving
uncustomed
goods
,
for
to
speak
the
truth
,
she
will
harbour
no
ventred
commodity
in
her
warehouse
;
&
if
the
Informer
or
Constable
doe
light
upon
one
of
her
conceal'd
dryfats
,
Punchions
,
fardils
or
(
naughtie
)
packs
,
and
having
seiz'd
it
by
his
office
,
&
honestly
laid
it
up
safe
in
the
storehouse
of
Bridewel
,
yet
the
Bawd
wil
so
cōpound
in
the
busines
,
that
for
a
smal
toy
,
and
a
little
sufferance
,
she
'l
redeeme
the
Commodity
&
have
her
ware
again
in
her
owne
hands
.
d
A
Bawd
is
no
deceiver
of
her
customers
,
for
what
she
promiseth
shee
will
performe
,
as
for
example
,
If
shee
take
a
fee
to
helpe
a
man
to
a
Whore
shee
will
not
cheat
him
and
bring
him
an
honest
woman
;
a
bargaines
a
bargaine
,
and
shee
will
not
saile
you
in
a
tittle
:
shee
plainly
and
openly
shewes
her selfe
what
shee
is
,
shee
doth
not
dissemble
or
hide
her
function
from
her
clyents
,
under
the
veile
of
hypocrysie
,
and
for
her
creatures
that
live
under
her
,
e
shee
hath
taught
them
their
Art
whereby
they
may
live
another
day
,
when
shee
is
dead
and
rotten
,
and
as
they
have
their
maintenance
by
her
instruction
,
&
under
her
protection
,
so
it
is
fit
that
in
requitall
of
her
paines
,
she
should
pick
a
revenue
out
of
their
commings
in
;
shee
hath
good
presidents
out
of
famous
Authors
for
it
:
an
old
brave
fellow
tooke
great
paines
in
teaching
of
his
Cuthorse
,
and
the
beast
was
so
thankfull
for
it
,
that
hee
got
his
masters
provender
,
and
his
owne
both
,
many
yeeres
after
.
If
a
man
teach
an
Ape
to
doe
trickes
,
the
honest
Ape
will
maintaine
him
for
it
;
I
have
seene
a
Hare
get
her
master
and
dames
living
,
with
playing
on
a
Tabor
.
The
very
Baboones
are
grave
examples
in
this
kind
,
Tumblers
boyes
,
(
and
sometimes
their
wives
)
doe
teach
us
this
duty
;
and
the
ignorant
Puppets
doe
allow
their
maker
and
masters
,
meat
,
drinke
,
and
cloath
.
For
mine
owne
part
,
If
I
teach
my
man
to
row
,
I
will
have
for
my
paines
the
greatest
part
of
the
profit
.
If
I
dig
or
plow
and
cast
my
Seed
into
the
ground
,
I
will
expect
the
benefit
of
the
Crop
:
If
I
plant
or
grasse
,
I
should
thinke
I
had
but
hard
measure
,
if
I
should
not
feed
vpon
the
fruit
of
my
labour
:
By
this
consequence
it
is
reason
that
a
Bawd
should
reape
where
she
hath
sowne
,
and
eate
,
and
live
vpon
such
fruit
as
shee
hath
planted
.
To
close
up
all
,
the
Summe
of
all
is
this
,
I
'le
end
my
Booke
as
Ovid
ended
his
.
So
long
as
on
the
Poles
the
spangled
firmament
shall
whirle
,
So
long
as
Procreation
shall
beget
a
Boy
or
Girle
,
So
long
as
winter
shall
be
cold
,
or
Summer
shall
be
hot
,
So
long
as
poverty
and
spight
shall
be
true
Vertues
lot
,
When
Phoebus
in
the
West
shall
rise
and
in
the
East
shall
set
,
When
children
on
(
their
mothers
)
their
owne
fathers
shall
beget
;
Then
shall
this
Booke
,
or
Bawd
lye
dead
,
and
never
till
that
day
,
Shall
Booke
or
Bawd
,
or
Bawd
or
Booke
,
be
scarse
,
if
men
will
pay
.
Till
Sun
and
Moone
shall
cease
to
shine
,
and
all
the
World
lye
wast
;
So
long
his
booke
,
or
else
a
Bawd
,
I
'me
sure
,
so
long
shall
last
.
FINIS
.
A
Common
Whore
With
all
these
graces
grac'd
,
Shee
's
very
honest
,
beautifull
and
chaste
.
Written
By
IOHN
TAYLOR
Printed
at
London
for
Henry
Gosson
.
1635.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A13421-e310
*
Witnesse
my
paper
Boat.
*
Hen.
Smith
in
his
Treat
.
of
Herodot
.
cap.
38
pag
303.
*
Cornelius
Agrippa
in
his
vanity
of
Sciences
.
*
Idem
.
a
Lucrece
was
first
maried
to
her
own
brother
the
sonne
of
Pope
Aleaxander
the
sixt
,
she
being
daughter
to
the
said
pope
,
and
daughter
in
law
to
him
by
the
marriage
with
his
son
.
And
being
concubine
to
the
said
Pope
,
he
caused
her
after
his
sonne
her
husbands
death
,
to
be
married
to
three
princes
one
after
another
:
First
to
Duke
Iohn
Sforza
.
Secondly
,
to
Lewis
sonne
to
Alphonfus
King
of
Arragon
.
Thirdly
,
to
Alphonsus
D.
Est
Duke
of
Ferara
.
b
Her
name
was
Constancia
,
she
was
married
to
a
Duke
named
Sforza
,
but
the
Pope
her
father
poysoned
her
,
because
he
could
not
lawfully
enioy
her
.
Also
for
the
like
be
poysoned
his
sister
.
b
A
flattering
hireling
Preacher
,
is
a
Bawd
to
the
vices
of
his
surly
Patron
,
and
an
hypocriticall
conniver
at
the
crying
sinnes
of
his
Audience
.
*
The
Devill
is
the
chiefe
Bawd.
*
A
Glister
of
Holy
water
I
thinke
,
would
better
drive
out
the
Devill
.
*
Emperours
have
beene
Bawdes
.
*
A
King
of
Castile
,
or
Spaine
,
Bawd
to
his
owne
wife
.
*
No
toleration
.
*
A
necessary
male
for
a
man
to
trusse
up
his
trinkets
is
.
a
A
Bawd
a
Gramarian
.
b
An
Astronomer
.
c
A
Logician
.
d
Mounthink
,
Rarearcher
,
or
Landloper
.
e
Arithmatick
.
a
Geometry
.
b
Musicke
.
c
Poetry
.
a
Painting
.
b
Physicke
and
Chirurgery
.
c
Palmestry
and
Fortune-telling
.
d
Mercer
a
Grocer
.
c
Fish-mongers
and
Fishermen
.
d
Goldsmith
.
*
All
vices
are
in
high
account
and
great
respect
,
but
onely
Bawds
occupation
:
yet
many
men
have
an
itching
desire
in
private
,
to
that
which
he
will
condemne
in
publike
.
*
The
patience
of
a
Bawd.
a
The
necessity
of
a
Bavvd
.
b
The
equity
of
a
Bawd.
c
The
charity
of
a
Bawd.
d
The
Philosophy
of
a
Bawd.
*
The
civility
of
a
Bawd.
*
The
temperance
of
a
Bawd.
*
The
chastity
of
a
Bawd.
*
The
conscience
and
religion
of
a
Bawd.
*
Of
mens
money
.
*
Crosse
and
Pyle
.
*
A
Bawd
is
an
excellent
Chimmist
.
a
The
industry
and
vigilancy
of
a
Bawd.
b
Or
Punckes
.
c
A
Bawd
a
skilfull
Navigaton
.
d
The
plaine
dealing
of
a
Bawd
e
A
Bawd
hath
common
sence
and
reason
to
take
her
part
or
share
in
her
profession
.