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_Blunt._ 'Tis a rare Girl, and this one night's enjoyment with her will be worth all the days I ever past in Essex.-- Would she'd go with me into _England_, tho to say truth, there's plenty of Whores there already.-- But a pox on 'em they are such mercenary prodigal Whores, that they want such a one as this, that's free and generous, to give 'em good Examples:-- Why, what a House she has!

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_Will._ I know I've done some mischief, but I'm so dull a Puppy, that I am the Son of a Whore, if I know how, or where-- prithee inform my Understanding.-- _Belv._ Leave me I say, and leave me instantly.

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Virtue is but an Infirmity in Women, a Disease that renders even the handsom ungrateful; whilst the ill-favour'd, for want of Solicitations and Address, only fancy themselves so.-- I have lain with a Woman of Quality, who has all the while been railing at Whores.

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_Fred._ Cheated, Sir, rarely cheated of all but his Shirt and Drawers; the unconscionable Whore too turn'd him out before Consummation, so that traversing the Streets at Midnight, the Watch found him in this _Fresco_, and conducted him home: By Heaven 'tis such a slight, and yet I durst as well have been hang'd as laugh at him, or pity him; he beats all that do but ask him a Question, and is in such an Humour-- _Ped._ Who is't has met with this ill usage, Sir?

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--Now, how like a Morrice-Dancer I am equipt-- a fine Lady-like Whore to cheat me thus, without affording me a Kindness for my Money, a Pox light on her, I shall never be reconciled to the Sex more, she has made me as faithless as a Physician, as uncharitable as a Churchman, and as ill-natur'd as a Poet.

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_Blunt._ Cruel, adsheartlikins as a Gally-slave, or a _Spanish_ Whore: Cruel, yes, I will kiss and beat thee all over; kiss, and see thee all over; thou shalt lie with me too, not that I care for the Injoyment, but to let you see I have ta'en deliberated Malice to thee, and will be revenged on one Whore for the Sins of another; I will smile and deceive thee, flatter thee, and beat thee, kiss and swear, and lye to thee, imbrace thee and rob thee, as she did me, fawn on thee, and strip thee stark naked, then hang thee out at my Window by the Heels, with a Paper of scurvey Verses fasten'd to thy Breast, in praise of damnable Women-- Come, come along.

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why, yes, Sweeting, we do know _Belvile_, and wish he were with us now, he's a Cormorant at Whore and Bacon, he'd have a Limb or two of thee, my Virgin Pullet: but 'tis no matter, we'll leave him the Bones to pick.

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_Will._ 'Sdeath, how the Whore has drest him!

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_Belv._ Indeed, _Willmore_, thou wert a little too rough with _Ned Blunt's_ Mistress; call a Person of Quality Whore, and one so young, so handsome, and so eloquent!-- ha, ha, ha.

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_Belv._ Hark ye, Fool, be advis'd, and conceal both the Ring and the Story, for your Reputation's sake; don't let People know what despis'd Cullies we _English_ are: to be cheated and abus'd by one Whore, and another rather bribe thee than be kind to thee, is an Infamy to our Nation.

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_Blunt._ Nay, adsheartlikins they are all so; tho I thought you had been Whore-proof; 'tis enough for us Fools, Country Gentlemen, Esquires, and Cullies, to miscarry in their amorous Adventures, you Men of Wit weather all Storms you.

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Damn it, I hate a Whore that asks me Mony.

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_Beau._ Ay, there's the Devil on't, she is-- a Whore.

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_Will._ I die for her-- _Beau._ Then for her Qualities-- _Will._ No more-- ye Gods, I ask no more, Be she but fair and much a Whore-- Come let's to her.

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For I'll not bate a Ducat of this Price I've set upon my self, for all the Pleasures Youth or Love can bring me-- for see _Aurelia_-- the sad Memento of a decay'd poor old forsaken Whore in _Petronella_; consider her, and then commend my Prudence.

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_Will._ Why, that very one Woman I spoke to is ten Whores in _Surrey_.

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_Will._ Wise Mr. Justice, give me your Warrant, and if I do not prove 'em Whores, whip me.

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_Feth._ Prithee hold thy scandalous blasphemous Tongue, as if I did not know Whores from Persons of Quality.

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_Feth._ Whores-- ha, ha-- _Will._ 'Tis strange Logick now, because your Band is better that mine, I must not know a Whore better than you.

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_Blunt._ If this be a Whore, as thou say'st, I understand nothing-- by this Light such a Wench would pass for a Person of Quality in _London_.

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_Blunt._ Look how _Willmore_ eyes her, the Rogue's smitten heart deep-- Whores-- _Feth._ Only a Trick to keep her to himself-- he thought the Name of a _Spanish_ Harlot would fright us from attempting-- I must divert him-- how is't, Captain-- Prithee mind this Musick-- Is it not most Seraphical?

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_Feth._ Oh, have ye so; what, with Whores, Captain?-- 'Tis a most delicious Gentlewoman.

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_Will._ All this with Pride I own, since 'tis a royal Cause I suffer for; go pursue your Business your own way, insnare the Fool-- I saw the Toils you set, and how that Face was ordered for the Conquest, your Eyes brimful of dying lying Love; and now and then a wishing Glance or Sigh thrown as by chance; which when the happy Coxcomb caught-- you feign'd a Blush, as angry and asham'd of the Discovery: and all this Cunning's for a little mercenary Gain-- fine Clothes, perhaps some Jewels too, whilst all the Finery cannot hide the Whore!

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_Will._ Faith, one, who for her Beauty merits that glorious Title she wears, it was-- a Whore, Child.

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_Aria._ That's but a scurvy Name; yet, if I'm not mistaken in those false Eyes of yours, they look with longing Love upon that-- Whore, Child.

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_Aria._ But to marry thee-- would be a Tyranny from whence there's no Appeal: A drinking whoring Husband!

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Hah!-- Mercy upon us!-- What's yonder!-- Ah, _Ned_, my Monster is as big as the Whore of _Babylon_-- Oh I'm in a cold Sweat-- [_Blunt_ pulls him to peep, and both do so.

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_Feth._ Why, what a flattering Son of a Whore's this?

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Madam, upon this little Globe is character'd your Fate and Fortune; the History of your Life to come and past-- first, Madam-- you're-- a Whore.

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_Will._ Harkye, _Harry_-- the-- Woman-- the almighty Whore-- thou told'st me of to day.

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_Will._ Why,-- I am so indifferent grown, that I can tell thee now-- to a Woman, young, fair and honest; she'll be kind and thankful-- farewel, Jilt-- now should'st thou die for one sight more of me, thou should'st not ha't; nay, should'st thou sacrifice all thou hast couzen'd other Coxcombs of, to buy one single visit, I am so proud, by Heaven, thou shouldst not have it-- To grieve thee more, see here, insatiate Woman [Shews her a Purse or hands full of Gold] the Charm that makes me lovely in thine Eyes: it had all been thine hadst thou not basely bargain'd with me, now 'tis the Prize of some well-meaning Whore, whose Modesty will trust my Generosity.

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_Will._ So, I hope he will be civil and withdraw, and leave me in possession-- _Beau._ No, tho my Fortune should depend on thee; nay, all my hope of future happiness-- by Heaven, I scorn to marry thee, unless thou couldst convince me thou wer't honest-- a Whore!-- Death, how it cools my Blood-- _Will._ And fires mine extremely-- _La Nu._ Nay, then I am provok'd tho I spoil all-- [Aside.

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And is a Whore a thing so much despis'd?

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yes, I am a Coxcomb-- a confounded one, to doat upon so false a Prostitute; nay to love seriously, and tell it too: yet such an amorous Coxcomb I was born, to hate the Enjoyment of the loveliest Woman, without I have the Heart: the fond soft Prattle, and the lolling Dalliance, the Frowns, the little Quarrels, and the kind Degrees of making Peace again, are Joys which I prefer to all the sensual, whilst I endeavour to forget the Whore, and pay my Vows to Wit, to Youth and Beauty.

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_Hugs himself._ _Beau._ --Was this done like a Whore of Honour think ye?

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That I could not be warn'd from whoring in a strange Country, by my Friend _Ned Blunt's_ Example-- if I can but keep it secret now, I care not.

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_Beau._ Forgive me; oh so very well I love, Did I not know that thou hadst been a Whore, I'd give thee the last proof of Love-- and marry thee.

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_Will._ _La Nuche!_-- Why, she's a Whore-- I hope you take me for a civiller Person, than to throw my self away on Whores-- No, Child, I lie with none but honest Women I: but no disputing now, come-- to my Lodging, my dear-- here's a Chair waits hard by.

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_Blunt._ Ah, see the Inconstancy of fickle Fortune, _Nicholas_-- A Man to day, and beaten to morrow: but take comfort, there's many a proper fellow has been robb'd and beaten on this Highway of whoring.

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_Blunt._ Pox on't, do not use an old Friend so scurvily; consider the Misery thou'lt indure to have the Heart and Mind of a jilting Whore possess thee: What a Fit of the Devil must he suffer who acts her Part from fourteen to fourscore!

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_Feth._ 'Tis true, should I turn Whore to the Disgrace of my Family-- what would the World say?

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In Massinger's _The Unnatural Combat_ (1621: 4to, 1639), the demoniac Malefort pursues his daughter Theocrine with the same baleful fires as Francesco Cenci looked on Beatrice, but the height of horror, harrowing the soul with pity and anguish, culminates in Ford's terrible scenes _Tis Pity She's a Whore_ (4to, 1633), so tenderly tragic, so exquisitely beautiful for all their moral perversity, that they remain unequalled outside Shakespeare.

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all on the sudden to leave delicious whoring, drinking and fighting, and be condemn'd to a dull honest Wife.

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Of all Whores, give me your zealous Whore; I never heard a Woman talk much of Heaven, but she was much for the Creature too.

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'Tis an Abomination to look like a Gentleman; long Hair is wicked and cavalierish, a Periwig is flat Popery, the Disguise of the Whore of _Babylon_; handsom Clothes, or lac'd Linen, the very Tempter himself, that debauches all their Wives and Daughters; therefore the diminutive Band, with the Hair of the Reformation Cut, beneath which a pair of large sanctify'd Souses appear, to declare to the World they had hitherto escap'd the Pillory, tho deserv'd it as well as _Pryn_.

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Des._ So, from Whoring, to a zealous Catechism-- who made me?

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Is your Stomach so queasy it cannot digest Pimping, that can swallow Whoring, false Oaths, Sequestration, Robbery, Rapes, and Murders daily?

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_Lov._ And then he rails against the Whore of Babylon, and all my neighbours think he calls me Whore.

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Those Fools, those Pimps to Monarchy, Those that exclude the Saints; yet open th' Door, To introduce the _Babylonian Whore_.

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Fretting and hot as roasting Capon, And greasy as a Flitch of Bacon; I to the Orchard did repair, To Breathe the cool and open Air; Expecting there the rising Day, Extended on a Bank I lay; But Fortune here, that fancy Whore, Disturb'd me worse and plagu'd me more, Than she had done the night before: Hoarse croaking (p) Frogs did 'bout me ring, Such Peals the Dead to Life wou'd bring, A Noise might move their Wooden King.

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Almost five thousand years agone, there were Pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are; and _Beelzebub_, _Apollyon_, and _Legion_, with their Companions, perceiving by the path that the Pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this Town of _Vanity_, they contrived here to set up a Fair; a Fair wherein should be sold of _all sorts of Vanity_, and that it should last all the year long: therefore at this Fair are all such Merchandise sold, as Houses, Lands, Trades, Places, Honors, Preferments, Titles, Countries, Kingdoms, Lusts, Pleasures, and Delights of all sorts, as Whores, Bawds, Wives, Husbands, Children, Masters, Servants, Lives, Blood, Bodies, Souls, Silver, Gold, Pearls, Precious Stones, and what not.... Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this Town where this lusty Fair is kept; and he that will go to the City, and yet not go through this Town, must needs _go out of the World_.

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They are young, but know not youth--it is anticipated; Handsome but wasted, rich without a sou; Their vigour in a thousand arms is dissipated; Their cash comes from, their wealth goes to a Jew; Both senates see their nightly votes participated Between the tyrant's and the tribunes' crew; And having voted, dined, drunk, gamed, and whored, The family vault receives another lord.

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Anye man that list for all them, maye exercise vsurye, make tumultes, haunt whores, sweare and forsweare, and deceiue at his owne will and pleasure.

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"_Kemp._ The honest woman, I make no question; but how if we cast a whores part or a courtisan?

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_A Whore_, p.

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Pitscottie knew no other cause why he was burned save that "he was in the East-land, and came home, and married a wife contrary to the form of the pope's institution because he was a priest; for they would thole no priest to marry, but they would punish and burn him to the dead; but if he had used ten thousand whores he had not been burnt" (Pitscottie's History, 1778, p. 236).

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Those familiar with the works of Hogarth will readily call to mind the picture of Bedlam in the Rake's Progress, whore the young woman is looking askance through her fan at the madman in his cell.]

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Dekker's fine drama of middle class life, _The Honest Whore_ (1604), and Heywood's masterpiece, _A Woman Killed with Kindness_ (1603), a play suggesting both the sentimental comedy of the eighteenth century and the problem play of to-day, also belong to this very remarkable era of domestic themes and serious realism.

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A host of minor writers, as Brome, D'Avenant, Suckling, Cartwright, offer little that is new; but no survey of the drama, however brief, can neglect to mention the skilful exposition, admirable psychology, and sound structural principles that characterized the best of Massinger's many plays, the unique and amazing dramatic genius shown in Ford's masterpieces, _The Broken Heart_ and _'Tis Pity She's a Whore_, and the ingenuity in plot, adroitness in characterization, and genuine poetic gifts of Shirley.

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These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore, Should praise a Matron.

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_Honest Whore_, 105.

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_'Tis Pity She's a Whore_, 112.

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many lax people of your kind in Scotland this day, hangers-on at the petticoat tails of the whore of Babylon, sitting like you, as honest worshippers at the tables of the Lord, eating Christian elements that but for His mercy choked them at the thrapple.

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And savage warriors, steel on hips, Muttered between their bearded lips, And spat upon the floor, To see a thing so debonnaire Enthroned upon a conqueror's chair, And find their King half-whore.

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Aroused by this noise, "James Burbage, her husband, looking out a window upon them, called the complainant [Widow Brayne] murdering whore, and ... the others villaines, rascals, and knaves."

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Here a servant "of the Newgate variety" shows him the sights of the city: Brought him to the Bankside where bears do dwell, And unto Shoreditch where the whores keep hell.]

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He reproached the poor woman with being a whore, and would have indecently pulled the clothes off, but Yeoman resisted both this act of violence and the attack upon his wife's character, adding that he defied the pope and popery.

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Nay, said she, you have more need to weep than to laugh, and to be sorry that ever you were born, to be the chaplains of that whore of Babylon.

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He called her a whore.

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Nay, said she, thy images are whores, and thou art a whore-hunter; for doth not God say, You go a whoring after strange gods, figures of your own making?

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Bar close as you can, and bolt fast too your door, To keep out the letcher, and keep in the whore; Yet quickly you'll see by the turn of a pin, The whore to come out, or the letcher come in.

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He by extortion brings in three times more: Say, who's the worst, th' exactor or the whore?

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A whore came up and spat into my eyes, Rather to blind me than to make me see, But she was very drunk, and tottering back, Even in the middle of her laughter fell And cut her head against the pointed stones, While I lean'd on my staff, and look'd at her, And cried, being drunk.

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The man loved one thing more Than all the world, and made his mind a whore To minister his heart's need, for a price.

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What, must I lie With one and other, make myself a whore, And so go back to Sparta, nevermore To hold my head up level with my slaves, Nor dare to touch my child?"

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Od's death I'll hang thee, if there were never a Whore more in _London_, if thou hast.

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You may be as far from being the Father as I am, for my Wife's acquainted with more Whore-masters besides your self; ay, and as crafty Merchants too, let me tell you that.

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Mrs. _Ven._ Pray hold there Mrs. Jill-flurt, the Child's my Husband's, and he shall have it, or I'll tear your Eyes out, ye Whore you.

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Why, Sirrah, Sirrah, do you call my Daughter Whore?

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_Mer._ Audacious Villain, O that I had thee in some private Corner, where none you'd either see or hear us, this Sword shou'd justify my Daughter's Honour; I'de Whore you with a Pox to you, so I wou'd.

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When I went to the stable he would put his nose round to the side pocket whore I kept the sugar.

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None, man; all idle; whores and knaves.

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never name her, child, if she be a whore.

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Why, ’tis good; it is the right of it; it must be 55 so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd: an unshunned consequence; it must be so.

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Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery: but 35 what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be hanged, I cannot imagine.

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I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.

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proceeds: "The old way of attacking the Church of England was by mobs and bullies, and hard sounds; by calling _Whore_, and _Babylon_, upon our worship and liturgy, and kicking out our clergy as _dumb dogs_: but now they have other irons in the fire; a new engine is set up under the cloak and disguise of _temper, unity, comprehension, and the Protestant religion_.

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[Illustration] A. Abbess, a bawd, the mistress of a bawdyken Abbott's Priory, the King's Bench Prison Abram Cove, a naked or poor man, a sturdy beggar in rags Above par, having the needful, possession of the poney, plenty of money, 'best bliss of earth' Abram men, fellows dressing themselves in various rags, old ribbon, fox tails, begging in the streets, pretending to be mad, fellows who steal pocket books only Abram, to sham, to slum, to pretend sickness Academy, a brothel, bagnio Academican, a scholar at an academy, a whore at a brothel Academy, a floating, a hulk at Woolwich for convicts Ack ruffians, rogues who in conjunction with watermen sometimes rob and murder on the water Ack pirates, fresh water thieves who steal on navigable rivers Acting the deceitful, performing, mumming, acting Adam, a henchman, an accomplice Adam's ale, our first father's drink, water, 'best with brandy' Adam tiler, a receiver of stolen goods, a pickpocket, a fence Affair of honour, killing an innocent man in a duel All set, desperate fellows, ready for any kind of mischief Alderman in chains, turkey and sausages Alive, awake, fly, up, leery, acquainted with All out, the reckoning drank out, 'How stands the account 'twixt me and vengeance?'

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Joe Jolter head, a heavy dull blustering landlord Jones's, Mrs., the coffee house, privy K. Kate, a picklock Keep up the ball, to live and be jolly Keep the line, to, to behave with decorum Ken, a cribb, room Ken-cracker, house breaker Ken Bowman, a well furnished house Ken, flash, a house where thieves and vagrants resort Ken miller, house breaker Kick, sixpence Kick, to borrow money, to ask a favour Kick the bucket, to expire Kicksies, breeches Kid, a fellow thief Kiddies, flash fellows Kid lays, villains who defraud boys of their parcels and goods Kiddiess, a slap up well-dressed girl Kid, with, pregnant Kid-nappers, fellows who steal children, and decoy countrymen and strangers in the street, to rob them; also recruiting crimps Kidwy, a thief's child Kill devil, new rum, from its pernicious quality Kinchin, a young child Kimbau, to defraud, cheat King's mots, female children carried on the backs of strollers and beggars to excite the pity of the public King's picture, king's head on gold coin Kinchin coves, fellows who steal children for gypsies, beggars, &c. Knacker, an old good for nothing horse Knife it, stow it, be quiet Knight, a poor silly fellow Knight of the awl, a snob, cobbler Knight of the hod, a brick-layer's labourer Knight of the road, a highwayman Knight of the brush and moon, a drunken fellow Knight of the post, a perjurer, false swearers, fellows employed to give false evidence Knight of the blade, a bullying sham captain, a braggadocio Knights of the rainbow, waiters, footmen, lacqueys Knowledge box, the jemmy, head Knuckles, pickpockets Knuckle dabs, ruffles Ky-bosh on, to put the, to turn the tables on any person, to put out of countenance L. Lady-bird, a sweetheart, bedfellow Laced woman, a virtuous female Lady's man, an obsequious fellow to females Lady in mourning, hottentot girl Lag, to transport Lagged, transported Lagger, a person working on the water Lame ducks, defaulters at the Stock Exchange Lambskin men, the judges Lantern, dark, a servant or agent that receives a bribe to conceal a robbery Lap, butter-milk, whey Lap, rum, good liquor Lap feeder, a spoon Lapping your congou, drinking your tea Lark, a bit of mischief, fun Leading strings, the control of friends Leery, fly, up, acquainted Leerers, the eyes Left, over the, no go, it won't do Leg bail, running away Leg o'mutton sleeves, large sleeves worn by the ladies Levanters, persons who run away from their debts of honour Lib, to live together Lib ken, lodging house Libbege, a bed Lifter, a robber of shops Lighting a candle, sneaking out of a public house with out paying the reckoning Light blue, gin Lightning, gin Lightning, a noggen of, a quartern of gin Lightments, the day Lil, a pocket book Lily white, a snowball, a black, a chimney sweep Limbo, prison Line, getting into a, confusing a person, imposing on any body's belief by joking Lingo, slang, language Link it, turn it out Lipish, saucy List, or Loist, shop-lifting, robbing a shop Little Barbary, Wapping Little shillings, love money Lively kid, a funny fellow, a brave man Loap'd, run away Lob, money till Lob, an easy foolish fellow Lob lolly, a queer cooked mess Lob's pound, a prison Lobsters, soldiers Lock, a warehouse for the reception of stolen goods Lock, rum, being in good health; rich, clever, expert Locksmith's daughter, key Loge, a watch Loose house, round house or cage Lord, a deformed hump-backed person Lour, money Low-water mark, having little money Lugs, or listeners, the ears Lully, wet linen Lullaby cheat, an infant Lully priggers, the lowest order of thieves, who decoy children to some bye place and rob them of their clothes Lully snow prigging, stealing wet linen from hedges Lumber ken, a pawnbroker's shop Lumber the ticker, to pawn a watch Lurch, in the, to be left behind, to sneak, to hang on Lush cribs, sluicery's, gin shops Lush, drink Lush ken, an alehouse Lushingtons, drunkards M. Mace, to rob, steal Mackry, the country Mad Toms of Bedlam, fellows who counterfeit madness in the streets, and after beating themselves about, spit out some blood, in order to convince the too feeling multitude that they have injured themselves by violent struggles, and so obtain relief: they have a small bladder of sheep's blood in their mouth and when they choose can discharge it Made, stolen Mag, halfpenny Make, to, steal Malty coves, beer drinkers Mary-le-bone kick, a kick in the belly Marrowbones, the knees Mat macers, fellows and old women who go round in a morning when the servants are cleaning the doorways and steal the mats, &c. Maunder, beggar Maundering, begging Mauns, tip us your, give me your hand Mawley, the fist Mawmouth, one that splutters in his talk Max, gin Mazzard, the head Mest, to spend Middle-piece, the stomach Mill, thump, fight Mill the glaze, breaking windows or lamps Mill the ken, break open the house Mill his nob, break his head Mill clapper, a woman's tongue Milldoll, to beat hemp in Bridewell Miller, a boxer Missing, courting; to be gone or away Misstopper, a coat and petticoat Mizzle, go, begone Moabites, bailiffs and their crew Mog, a lie Moisten your chaffer, drink Monish, tip us the, give me the money Monkey up, being in a violent passion Mopus, a halfpenny Moon cursers, link boys Moonshine, nonsense, flummery Morriss off, to run away Mother, a name for the keeper of a brothel Mother's milk, rum, boose, good liquor Mots, cyprians, whores Mount, to give false evidence Mounter, a common perjurer, villains who give false evidence and become bail for fellows of their own stamp Mouth, a stupid fellow, a novice Move, an incident, an action in life Mower, a cow Muck, money Muck, to, to clean out, to win all a person's money Muck'd, lost all at play, no money left Mud pipes, thick boots Muff, a raw, a silly fellow Mufflers, sparring gloves Mug, the face Mugs, cutting of, making faces Mullygrubs, the belly ache Mummer, the mouth Mummers, strolling players, mountebank speakers, gypsies, and beggars who tell pitiful stories to excite compassion Muns, mouth Mumbling cove, a sturdy ill-natured landlord, shabby fellow Murphies, potatoes Muzzle, the mouth N. Nab, to steal Nabb'd, taken Nail, to lay hold Natty lads, young thieves Nash, to bolt, to run away Needful, money Never wag, man of war, the Fleet Prison Neat thing, good liquor Nab, a hat Nabs, a person to either sex; a familiar way of talking; as, How are you my Nabs Nob the bib, to cry and wipe the eyes Nab the rust, to receive the money Nab the noge, to receive a guinea Nab the clout, steal a handkerchief Nab the cramp, having sentence of death passed Nab the bung, to receive a purse Nask, a prison Napper, or Nads, a sheepstealer Napper, the head Ne'er a face but his own, not a farthing in his pocket Newlicks, or Noolucks, a person not known, an imaginary being, said to be a kin to Joe, Cheeks, &c. Nibble, thieve, steal Nicks, nothing Nim, to steal Nimmer, a thief of the lowest order Niggers, fellows who clip and file gold coin Nig, clipping of money Nick it, to win a wager Nip, a cheat Nipperkin, half pint measure Nix, or nix my doll, nothing No go, it won't do, a bad experiment Nob, the head Nob, the head; a fellow carrying a high head, a man of money, of respectability Nob thatcher, a hat maker Nob, old, a favourite game used by sharpers, called pricking in the hat Nobblers, blows, thumps Noddle, empty headed, shallow pated, stupid Noll, a wig Noodle, a sawney Norway neckcloth, the pillory Norfolk capon, a soldier, a red herring Nose, a, one who splits or tells Nose, to, to expose, tell Nozzle, the nose Nub, the neck Nubbing, hanging Nubbing cove, the hangman Nubbing ken, the sessions house Nubbing cheat, the gallows Nail gropers, people who sweep the streets in search of old iron, nails, &c. Nunnery, a brothel Nurse, to cheat Nutty, fond Nut crackers, the pillory Nutmeg grater, the beard O. Oak, a rich man of credit, substance Office, warning, notice Ogles, the eyes Ogles in mourning, black eyes Ogles, rum, fine piercing eyes Oil of palm, money Old One, or Old Harry, names for the devil Old Tom, good gin Old toast, a brisk lively old man Oliver, the moon Oliver widdles, the moon shines Oliver sneaks, the moon hid under a cloud, has got his upper Ben on Oli compoli, a rogue of the canting crew On the pot, being in trouble, vex'd On the mallet, having goods on trust One two, two blows succeeding each other One in ten, a parson Optics, the eyes Operators, pickpockets Os chives, bone handle knives Out and outer, a rum'un, a good fellow at any thing, a trump Ousted, turned out, thrown Over the left, it won't do, no go Over the bender, over the bridge Overseer, a fellow in the pillory Owlers, runners and smugglers of wool P. Pad, a highwayman who robs on foot Pad it, to walk Palm, to fee, to hand over Pallaird, beggars who borrow children, the better to obtain charity Panum, victuals Panum struck, very hungry, wanting something to eat Pantler, a butler Param, bread Parings, clippings of money Panter, heat Pat, an accomplice or companion Patter, slang Patter slang, to talk flash Pattered, tried in a court of justice for felony Pave, the pathway Pavier's workshop, the street Peck and boose, victuals and drink Peel, to strip Peeper, looking glass Peepers, eyes Peel your skin, strip, pull off your clothes Peery, suspicious Peg a hack, to drive a hackney coach Peg, or peg stick, a bender, shilling Peg tantrums, dead Penance board, pillory Persuaders, cudgels or spurs Peter, a trunk Peteresses, persons who make it their business to steal boxes from the backs of coaches, chaises, and other carriages Pewter, money Pewter, to unload, to drink porter out of a quart pot Philistines, bailiffs and their crew Phizog, the face Pickling tubs, Wellington, or top boots Picture frame, the gallows, or pillory Pig, a sixpence Pigman, a trap, or bailiff Pigeon, a meek stupid easy fellow Pike off, run away Pinch, to steal money under pretence of getting change, _see_ Ringing the changes Pimple, the head Pinks of fashion, dashing fellows Pins, the gams, legs Pippin, funny fellow, friendly way of expressing one's self as 'How are you, my Pippin?'

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One appeal which may be said to run through the whole of the speeches on the side of the Government is familiar to the readers and the audiences of all political debates, whore any manner of Reform is under discussion.

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[4] {10}["Sardanapalus, the Thirtieth from Ninus, and the last King of the Assyrians, exceeded all his Predecessors in Sloth and Luxury; for besides that he was seen of none out of his family, he led a most effeminate life: for wallowing in Pleasure and wanton Dalliances, he cloathed himself in Womens' attire, and spun fine Wool and Purple amongst the throngs of his Whores and Concubines.

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Brother Sanders invited me to go to Gainsborough with him, whore he presented me with a nice supply of clothing.

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