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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...loofe body, I haue feene her here In gayer Masking Suits, as seuerall Sawces Giue one Dish feuerall Tastes, fo change of Habits In Whores is a bewitching Art: to day She's all in colours to befot Gallants, Then in modest blacke, to catch the Cittizen, And this from their Examinations drawne, Now shall you fee a Monster both in shape And nature quite from thefe, that sheds no teare, Nor yet is nice, 'tis a plaine ramping Beare, Many fuch Whales are cast vpon this Shore. Omnes. Let's fee her. 1. Mailer. Then behold a fwaggering Whore. Exit. Orl. Keep your gro'wnd, Bots. Bots. I doe but trauerfe to fpy aduantage how to arme my feife. Enter the two Masters first, after them the Constable; after tltem a Beadle beating a Bafon, then Catyryna Bountinall, with Mijlris Horfleach, after them another Beadle with a blue head guarded with yellow. Cat. Sirra, when I cry hold your hands, hold, you Rogue-Catcher, hold: Bawd, are the French Chilblaines in your heeles, that you can come no faster? are not you (Bawd) a Whores Ancient, and must not I follow my Colours? Hors O Mistris Katherine, you doe me wrong to accufe mee here as you doe, before the right Worfhipsull: st am knowne for a motherly honest woman, and no Bawd.5 Cat. Mary foh, honest t burnt at fourteene, feuen times whipt, sixe times carted, nine times duck'd, fearch'd by fome hundred and sisty Constables, and yet you are honest 1 Honest Mistris Horsleach, is this World, a World to keepe Bawds and Whores honest? How many times hast thou giuen Gentlemen. a quart of wine in a gallon pot? how many twelue-penny Fees, nay two shillings Fees, nay, when any Embastadours ha beene here, how many halfe crowne Fees hast thou taken? how many Carriers hast thou bribed for Country Wenches? how osten haue I...