A common vvhore vvith all these graces grac'd: shee's very honest, beautifull and chaste. Written by Iohn Taylor.

A WHORE . MY Booke , an honest Whore , I fitly call , Because it treats of whores in generall : Then though this Pamphlet I doe name a whore Let no man shun her company therefore , For if ten thousand with her lodge and lye , No reputation they shall lose thereby . No cost * * A cheaps Whore . for dyet she at all requires , No charge for change of changeable Attires , No Coaches , or Carroaches she doth craue , No base attendance of a Pand'ring Knaue , Persumes and Paintings , she abhorres and hates , Nor doth she borrow haire from others pates . And this much more I le boldly say for her , Who so redeemes her from the Stationer With whom she as a Slaue is kept in hold , And at his pleasure daily bought and sold ) I say , that man that doth her ransome pay , She will requite his kindnesse euery way , Her Inside with such Treasurie is stor'd , As may become the Pocket of a Lord , All , from the Cottage , to the Castle high , From Pallatines vnto the Peasantry , ( If th er'le permit their wisedomes Rule their will ) May keepe this Whore , and yet be honest still . Yet is she * * A strange Whore , common and yet honest . Common , vnto all that craue her , For sixe pence honest man or Knaue may haucher , To be both turn'd and tost , she free affords , And ( like a prating Whore ) she 's full of words , But all her talke is to no other end , Then to teach Whoremaisters and Whores to mend . She in plaind termes vnto the world doth tell , Whores are the Hackneyes which men ride to hell , And by Comparisons she truly makes A Whore worse then a common Shore , or Iakes . A Succubus , a damned sinke of sinne , A Mire , where worse then Swine doe wallow in , And with a Whore ( although thus plaine she be ) She shewes a Whoremonger as bad as she . And though I barren am of Elloquence , Nor euer vnderstood my Accidence : Yet though I haue no learning to my share , A Whore to broken Lattin I 'le compare ; First , if her minde on Whoring she doth fix , She 's all compact of mirth , all Meretrix , And with small teaching she will soone decline Mulier into the Gender Masculine . By her Attire , of which sex she should be , She seemes the doubtfull Gender vnto me , To either side her habit seemes to leane , And may be taken for the Epicene . Vnto the Newter I compare her can , For she 's for thee , or me , or any man . In her Declousions she so farre will goe , As to the common of two , three , or moe . And come to horum harum Whorum , then She proues a great proficient amongst men . Then after she hath learn'd these Lessons right , She forward goes vnto hoc leue light , She paints out pulcher , ayded by her glasse , She 's neither bonus , or yet bonitas . Homo for all men , is a common name , And she for all men is a common shame . Not lapis singularly , her can please , She loues the plurall number lapides . To Conster plainely she is seldome curlous , The two hard words of durus , and of durius , Though she 's not past the Whip , she 's past the Rods , And knowes to ioyne her qui'es , her quea's , & quods , The Actiue from the Passiue she 'le deriue , Her Mood commaunds like the Imparatiue ; She knowes no Concords , yet to all men thus , She faine would be Iucundas omnibut ; Clam is the Cloake , that couers her offence , Her goodnes all is in the Future tense , She 's facile fieri , ( quickly wonne ) Or Const'ring truly , Easie to be done . Parui ducitur probitas , sets forth Her honesty is rekon'd little worth . And he shall finde , that takes her for his choyce ; An Interiection , or Imperfect voyce , Among the rules of Gender , she by heart , Can without missing daily say her part . The first among them all she liketh best , Propria quae Maribus , and there she 'le rest . Thus may a Whore be made ( by this Construction ) Vnto the Grammar Rules an Introduction , But yet if Learning might be gotten so , Few to the Vniuersities would goe . And all degrees , tagge ragge , and old and young , Would be well grounded in the Latine tongue : Whil'st many learn'd men would be forc'd to seeke Their liuings from the Hebrew and the Greeke . For mine owne part I dare to sweare and vow I ne're vs'd Accidence so much as now , Nor all these Latine words here enterlac'd , I doe not know if they with sense are plac'd , I in the Booke did finde them , and conclude At randon to a Whore I them allude . But leauing Latine , eu'ry Trading Wench Hath much more vnderstanding of the French . If she hath learn'd great P , O Perse O , She 'le quickly know De morbo Gallico . If in these Rudiments she well doth enter , With any man she neuer feares to venter : She 's Impudently arm'd , and shamelesse to , And neuer dreads what man to her can do , Her neather part to stake she 'le often lay To keepe her vpper part in fashion , gay , She blushes not to haue her Trade well know̄ne , Which is , she liues by vsing of her owne . Her shop , her ware , her fame , her shame , her game , 'T is all her owne , which none from her can claime . And if she be halfe mad , and Curse and sweare , And fight , and bite , and scratch , and domineere : Yet still she proues her patience to be such , 'Midst all these passions she will beare too much . She is not Couetous for any thing , For what she hath , men doe vnto her bring , ( Her Temp'rance is a vertue of much honour ) And all her Commings in , are put vpon her . She 's generall , she 's free , she 's liberall Of hand and purse , she 's open vnto all , Shee is no miserable hidebound wretch , To please her friend at any time shee 'le stretch , At once she can speake true , and lye , or either , And is at home , abroad , and altogether . She 's nimbler then a Tumbler , as I thinke Layes downe , and takes vp , whilst a man can winke . And though she seeme vnmeasur'd in her pleasure , 'T is otherwayes , a Yard's her onely measure . But as most Whores are vicious in their fames , So many of them haue most Vertuous names , Though bad they be , they will not bate an Ace To be cald Prudence , Temp'rance , Faith , or Grace , Or Mercy , Charity , or many more , Good names ( too good to giue to any Whore ) Much from the Popes of Rome they doe not swerue , For they haue Names which they doe ill deserue , Onely betwixt them heere 's the difference on 't , A Whore receiues her Name first at the Font. The Roman Bishop takes a larger scope , For he doth Change his name , when hee 's a Pope . As , if he were a Persecuting Saul , If he please hee 'l be call'd a Preaching Paul . Is his name Swinesnowt , he can change the Case , And swap away that Name for Boniface . If he be most vngodly , and enuious , Yet if he please , he will be called Pious . Be he by Nature to all mischiefe bent , He may and will be called Innocent , And be he ne're so doggedly inclinde , Hee 'le be nam'd Vrbane , if it be his minde . If he be much more fearefull then a Sheepe , The Name of Lee he may haue and keepe . And though he be vnmercifull yet still , He may be called Clement if he will . Thus Popes may haue good names , though bad they bet And so may Whores though different in degree . The Annagram of WHORE'S her mortall foe , Deuided into two wordes , 't is HER WO. And seriously ( to lay all Iesting by ) A Whore is Her owne Wo , and misery . For though she haue all pleasures at the full , Much more then Thaies , that proud Corinthian Trull Who suffered none but Kings and Potentates To haue their pleasures , at Excessiue rates , Yet all that Deare bought Lechery would be The greater brand of lasting Infamy , And though her Carrion Corps , rich clad , high ●●d , ( Halfe rotten liuing , and all rotten Dead ) Who with her hellish Courage , stout and hot , Abid the brunt of many a prickshaft shot , Yet being dead , and doth Consumed lye , Her euerlasting shame shall neuer dye : Ixion ( in his armes ) he did suppose That he the Goddesse Iuno did inclose : But in the end his franticke error show'd , That all which he Embrac'd was but a Cloud . So whosoeuer doe their Lust embrace , In stead of Loue are clouded with disgrace . The Godlesse Goddesse Venus , honour'd farre , For Conqu'ring of the Conqu'ring God of Warre , To hide their shame they no defence could get , When limping Vulcan tooke them in a net , And being past shame , with that foule offence , Shee arm'd herselfe with shamelesse Impudence , And with vngodly articles would proue , That foule Concupiscence and Lust is Loue . For which each baudy Knaue , and filthy Whore , Heere I haue for some 60. lines followed the report of Corneius Agrippa , in his Vanity of scicaces . Her deuillish Diety doe still adore . I haue read Histories that doth Repeat Whores were of olde in estimation Great , Pandemus King of Corinth , he Erected ( That he from Perses power might be protected ) A Temple vnto Venus , as some say , Where Whares might for his safety safely pray . And some in Ephesus , did Temples reare , In whom the Paphean Queene adored were , Where they that were the wickedst Whores of all , Were the chiefe Priests in robes Pontificall . And in the I le of Paphes , 't was the vse Maydes got their Dowries , by their Corps abuse , But if that order were allowed heere , So many would not Portions want I feare . The Art of Bawd'ry was in such respect Amongst th' Egiptians , that they did erect An Altar to Priapus , and their guise Was , that their Priests on it did Sacrifice . Wise Aristotle , was in wit so poore , He Sacrific'd to Hermia , his whore . Great Iulius Caesar , was so free and Common , And cald a Husband vnto euery woman . Procullus Emperour , ( the Story sayes ) Deslowr'd one hundred Maydes * * Sarmatian Maydes . in Fifteene dayes . If all be true that Poets vse to write , Hercules lay with Fifty in one night . When Heliogabilus , Romes Scepter sway'd , And all the world his lawlesse Lawes obay'd : He in his Court did cause a Stewes be made , Whereas Cum priuilegio , Whores did trade . H'inuited Two and twenty of his friends , And kindly to each one a Whore he lends . To set Whores free , that then in bondage lay , A mighty Masse of money he did pay , 30. pound waight a peece . He ( in one day ) gaue to each whore in Rome A Duckat , ( a large and ill bestowed summe . ) He made Orations vnto Whores , and said They were his Soldiers , his Defence and ayde , And in his speech he shew'd his wit s'acute , Of sundry formes of Bawd'ry to dispute . And after giuing vnto euery Whore , For list'ning to his tale three Duckats more , With Pardon vnto all , and Liberty That would be Whores within his Monarchy . And yearely pensions , he freely gaue , To keepe a Regiment of Whores , most braue . And oft he had ( when hee in Progresse went ) Of Whores , Bawdes , Pandeas , such a Rabblement Sixe hundred Waggons , History reports , Attended onely on these braue Consorts . This was a Royall Whoremaster indeed , A speciall * * Or rather malefastor Benefactor at their need , But now since Heliogabilus deceast , I thinke the world with Whores is so increast , That if it had an Emperour as mad , He might haue twice so many as he had . For by experience we see euery day That bad thinges doe increase , good things decay . And vertue ( with much care ) from vertue breeds , Vice freely springs from vice like stincking weeds . Sardanapalus King of Babilon , Was to his whores such a Companion , That he in their Attire did Sowe and sing , ( An exercise vnfitting for a King ) This feruent Lust , ( which some call ardent Ioue ) Did cause the Bastard * * Hercuier . of the mighty Ioue To please his Iole , he tooke a Wheele And ( laying by his Club ) did Spin and Reele . Great loue himselfe , could not this snare escape , Lust led him on to many a shamelesse Rape . Poore Hebe , Hele , * * Jupiter transformd himselfe to all these shapes to attaine his desrie . Danue , and Europa , Alemena , Io , Semele , and Leada , Antiopa , Asterie , Ganimede , These and a number more his fancy fed . To compasse which his shifts were manifold T' a Bull , a Ram , a Swan , a showre of Golde , To dreadfull Thunder , and consuming Fire , And all to quench his inward flames desire . Apollo turn'd faire Daph●● into * * The Bay tree or Lawrell . Bay , Because she from his Lust did flye away . He lou'd his Hiacinct , and his Coronis , As feruently as Venus lou'd Adonis , So much he from his Godhead did de●●ne , That for a Wench he kept Adme●●s Kine . And many other Gods haue gone aftray , If all be true which Ouids Booke doth say . Thus to fulfill their Lusts , and win their Truls , We see that these vngodly Gods were Guls. The mighty Captaine * * Achilles , who was slain ( befotted to his Death ) for the loue of Polixena . of the Mermidous Being Captiu'd to these base passions , Met an vntimely vnexpected slaughter For faire Polixena , King Priams Daughter . Lucretia's Rape , was Tarquins ouerthrowe , ( Shame often payes the debt that sinne doth owe ) Whot Philomela lost , and Tereus wonne It causde the lustfull Father * * Tereus K. of Thrace , care of his own Son Itis made into py-meat by his wife Frogne . eate his Sonne . In this vice Nero tooke such beastly ioy , He married was to Sporus , a young Boy , And P●riander , * A Tyrant Prince in Corinth . was with Lust so led , He with Mellissa lay , when she was Dead . Pigmalion , * * Plutarte . with an Image made of Stone , Did Loue and lodge ; ( I 'le rather lye alone . ) Aristophanes , * * Appius murthered himself , because Virginias father had slaine her , to free her from his Lust . joyn'd in Loue would be To a shee Asse , but what an Asse was he . A Roman Appius did in Iayle abide For Loue of faire Virginia , where he dyde . Our second Henry , * * K Henry the 2. King of England . Aged , Childish , fond , On the faire feature of faire Rosamond : That it rais'd most vnnaturall hatefull strife Betwixt himselfe , his Children , * * At Woodstocke . and his wife . The end of which was , that the jealious Queene Did poyson * * Mrs. Shore . Rosamond in furious spleene . The fourth King Edward lower did discend . He to a Goldsmiths wife * * She was I●cobs daughter , whose Rape was accursedly reuenged by hir bretheren , Simeon & Leu● , Genesi● . his loue did bend . This sugred sinne hath bin so generall , That it hath made the strongest Champions fall . ●●r Si●●em rauisht * * 2. Sam. 12. Dina , for which deed , 〈◊〉 number of the Sichemites did bleed , ●●d Sampson , in the prime of manly strength 〈◊〉 Dallila , was ouercome at length ●●ng * * 2. Sam. 13. Dauid frayly fell , and felt the paine , ●●d with much sorrow , was restor'd againe , ●●ough Saul his foe he no way would offend , 〈◊〉 this sinne made him kill his loyall friend . 〈◊〉 much with Thamar , Incest did commit , ●●d Absolon depriu'd his Life for it . ●●d Sal●●● allow'd most Royall meanes , 〈◊〉 keepe 3. hundred Queenes , 7. hundred Queanes , 〈◊〉 whose meanes to Idolaty he fell 〈◊〉 most as lowe as to the Gates of Hell . At last repeating , he makes declaration , That all was vanity , and spirits vexation . Aboundance of Examples men may finde , Of Kings and Princes to this vice inclin'd , Which is no way for meaner men to goe , Because their betters oft haue wandred so , For they were plagu'd of God , and so shall wee Much more , if of their sinne we partners bee . To shew what Women haue bin plunged in The bottomlesse Abisse of this sweet sinne : There are example of them infinite , Which I ne're meane to reade , much lesse to write . To please the Reader though I 'le set downe some , As they vnto my memory doe come . Flora a Whore in Rome , great wealth did win , By her deare trading and her Commings in , Which wealth she freely gaue when she did dye Vnto the Roman people generally , For which they all ( to shew their thankes vnto h●● Made her a Goddesse , and did Reuerence doe her And Laies of Corinth , ask'd Demosthenes One hundred Crownes for one nights busines , For which a crew of Whores did set vpon her , A Whore she was , and Whores to death did stone There was a famous Whore * * Shee was seruant to Exanthus , & fellow to Esope the Fabulist . Rhodope nam'd Who for her gaine , at such high price she gam'd , That she ( most liberall ) did the Charges beare , A stately high Piramides to Reare . Great Iulius Caesar , was much ouerseene With Cleopatra the Aegiptian Queene : And after she insnar'd Marke Anthony , For which they both by their owne hands did dye . Semiramis plaid the inhumane Trull , a a Queene of Babylon , slaine by her sonne , whom she would haue had to haue layne with her . And was enamour'd with a beastly Bull : So did b b Pasipha , wife to Minos king of Creete . Pasipha , but me thinkes 't is strange , That Queenes so far from womenhood should range . Mirha ( Adonis mother ) caus'd her father The flow'r of her virginity to gather . If wise Vlysses , had not well beene arm'd , Inchanting Circes , had his honour charm'd , When lustfull Paris stole the lustfull Punke Faire Hellen , had the Ship that bore them sunke , Then thirty Kings in peace at home had staide , Nor Troy or Troians in their ruines laide , Faire Messalina , a most royall Whore , ( Wife vnto Claudins the Emperour ) The sports of Venus in the Stewes did play , c c Messalina and Faustins two Empresses . Sometimes full fiue and twenty times a day . Marcus Aurelius did faire Faustine wed , And she with Whoring did ad-horne his head . And many Princes and great Potentates , With Vulcans crest haue arm'd their noble pates : This to the poorest Cuckold seemes a bliss , That he with mighty Monarchs sharer is , That though to be Cornuted be a griefe , Yet to haue such braue partners , is reliefe . These Whores & Whoremaisters , which I haue nam'd , And thousands more ( in Histories defam'd ) With partiall selfe-opinion did approue , Their sensuality and lust was Loue . When as the ods is more then day from night , Or fire from water , blacke from purest white . The one with God , one with the Deuill doth dwell , Loue comes from heauen , and lust doth spring from hell . But the old Prouerb , ne're will be forgot , A Leachers loue is ( like Sir Reuerence ) hot . And on the suddaine cold as any stone , For when the lust is past , the loue is gone . But loue is such a blessing from on hie , Whose zealous feruency can neuer dye , It out-liues life , and the ascending flame Mounis to the God of Loue , from whence it came . Lust made * * Genesis . Seths sonnes , with fornication vaine , Ioyne with the daughters of accursed Caine . And the world suff'red , for their fornication Depopulation , by the inundation . And twenty and foure thousand Israelites Dyde for this sinne amongst the a a Numbers . Midianites . For the not punishing this fact ( almost ) The Tribe of b b Iudge . 19.20 . and 21. cha. 65000. were slaine of the Israelines , prodthere remained of the Beniamites only 600. Beniami● were slaine and lost . May this be call'd loue , then call vertue vice , And euery bawdy house , a Paradice . If lust were loue , it would not like a Wolfe , Drowne Louers hearts in Desperations Gulfe , A Theban , c c For Antigena the daughter of Oedipus and Iecasla . Hemon , himselfe madly kill'd , On his to deere deeres Tombe his heart blood spild For Pham ( a poore Watermans sweet sake ) Faire Saphe from a rocke , her d d The more foole shee , though she were a Poecesse . neck she brake . Pheadra , for her Hippollitus , they say , Did hang her selfe , and make a Holy-day . And e e Shee was daughter to Lycurgus K. of Thrace . Phillis for f f Sonne to Theseus . Demophoon did as much , I 'le neuer loue , if Loues effects be such . To quench the Carthaginian g g D●co . for Eneac , burned her selfe . Queenes desire , She burnt her selfe vpon a pile of fire ; If either Piramus , or Thisby had Not beene starke fooles , or else exceeding mad , The doting , idle misconceiuing Elues , So desperately , had ne're fore-done themselues . Thus all the difference betwixt loue and lust , Is , one is iust , the other is vniust , Search but in Histories , and men may finde Examples beyond numb'ring , of this kinde , How of both Sexes , each estate , and sort Of people ; from the Cottage to the Court , Haue madly ran this course som hang'd , som drownd , Burnt , staru'd , & stabd themselues with many a wound , Or pin'd away like Coxcombs , euer crauing To haue the thing , that 's neuer worth the hauing . In Antwerp , many filthy Whores I saw , That for their Trading were allowde by Law . And I in Prague did see a streete of Whores , An English mile in length , who at their dores , Did stand and ply ( rich clad , and painted rare ) More hard then euer I plyde for a fare . Th' Italian Stewes ( to make the Pope good cheere ) Payd twenty thousand Duckets in a h h Almost euery yere , a ducket is more then , 8. shillings , which sum is 8000. l. yeere . Besides , they giue a Priest ( t' amend his fee ) The profit of a Whore , or two or three , Methinkes it must be bad Diuinity , That with the Stewes hath such affinity , 'T is a mad doctrine Leachery shall pay A Church-mans stipend , that should preach & pray And in those Stewes , where women are so common In entertaining all , refusing no man , Whereas a father with a Whore may lye , Which done , his sonne his place may hap supply , And then an Vnckle , or a brother may Succeed each other in that damned play . For no propinquity , or no degree Of Kin , that haunt there , that can sweare th' are free From this commixion , and which is worst , A Whore may haue a Bastard , borne and nurst , And growne a woman , and to this Trade set her , May be a Whore to him that did beget her . Or to her brothers , or to all her Kin , She may be prostituted in this sin . And therefore to conclude this point , I muse That Christian Common-wealthes allow a Stues ; I thinke that Thieues as well allow'd should be , As Whores and Whore maisters should thus be free . They from the heathen doe examples bring , That Whoring , is a rare commodious thing , There was an ancient vse in Babylon , When as a womans stock was spent and gone , Her liuing it was lawfull then to get , Her carkasse out to Liuerie to let . And Venus did allow the Cyprian Dames , To get their liuings by their bodies shames , Lycurgus did a Law in Sparta make , That all men might their Barren wiues forsake : And by the same Law it ordained was , Wiues might vnable husbands turne to grals . And the wise Solon the Athenian , Allow'd Whores to be free for any man . And though these things the Pagan people did , Yet Christian gouernments these things forbid , But there 's no Common-wealth maintaines the same , But where the a a Not in any place but where Romes supremacy is allowed . Pope is Landlord of the game . The Stewes in England bore a beastly sway , Till the eight b b Anno Regni 37. Henry banish'd them away , And since those common whores were quite put down , A damned crew of priuate whores are growne , So that the deuill will be doing still , Either with publique or with priuate ill . Thus much for whoring I must say agen , It hath produced many valiant men : Braue Bastards , haue beene famous Conquerours , And some great Lords , and Kings , and Emperours . As Hereules Ioues mighty Bastard sonne , And c c So sayes Cornelius Agrippa , but I finde it otherwaies in Quintus Curtius . Alexander King of Macedon : Clodouee King of Fraunce , from Bastardy , And William Conquerour , from Normandy , These and a number more I could recite , Besides the vnknowne number 's infinite . And sure that wretched man that married is Vnto a wife dispos'd to this amiss , Is mad to wrong himselfe at all thereby , With heart griefe and tormenting iealousie . If he hath cause for 't , let him then forsake her , And pray God mend her , or the deuill take her : If he hath no cause to be iealous then , He 's worthy to be made the scorne of men , Thus cause or no cause , man himselfe should arme , That iealousie should neuer doe him harme . The Nicholaitanes , to auoyd the paine Of iealousie , amongst them did ordaine , That all their married wiues , of each degree , To euery one a common Whore should be . And so amongst them one could hardly finde , A Cuckold that did beare a iealous minde . When I but thinke what Sciences , and Arts , What men and women , full of ex'lent parts , Forget their functions , lay their vertues by , And waite and liue , and thriue by Leacherie . A Poets Art , all other Arts excell , If he hath skill and grace to vse it well : Yet many times 't is vs'd most base and vile , When it descends vnto a bawdy stile , To turne good humane studies , and diuine , Into most beastly lines , like Aretine ; To seeke to merrit euer-liuing Bayes , For sordid stuffe ( like Ouids lustfull Layes . ) With false bewitching verses to entice Fraile creatures from faire vertue to foule vice , Whose flatt'ry makes a whore to seeme a Saint , That stinkes like carrion , with her pox and paint . Comparing her ( with false and odious lies ) To all that 's in or vnderneath the skies . Her eyes to Sunnes , that doth the Sunne Ecclips , Her cheekes are Roses , ( Rubies are her lips ) Her white and red Carnation mixt with snow , Her teeth to orientall pearle , a Rowe , Her voyce like Musick of the heau'nly Spheares , Her haire like thrice refined golden Wires , Her breath more sweet then Arromatick drugs , Like Mownts of Allablaster are her drugs , Her Bracilets , Rings , her Scarfe her Fan , her Chaine , Are subiects to inspire a Poets braine : But aboue all her Smock most praise doth win , For 't is the Curtaine next vnto her skin , Her loose Gowne , for her looser body fit , Shall be adored with a flash of wit , And from the Chin-clowt , to the lowly Slipper , In Helliconian streames his praise shall dipher . I leaue vnnam'd what is affected best , As 't is most fit , for it maintaines the rest , Her thighes , her knees , her legs , her feete , and all , From top to toe are supernaturall . Her Iuory hands , with saphire veines inlayde , Which cannot be by mortall Pen displayde . Her smile makes cold December Sommer like , Her frowne , hot Iune with shiuering Frost can strike , And life and death doth in her lookes abide , Or many Knaues and Fooles that said so lyde . Her Shapperoones , her Perriwigs and Tires , Are Reliques , which this flatt'ry much admires , Rebatoes , Maske , her Busk and Busk-point to , Are things to which mad men must homage doe . Her Verdingale , her Garters , Shooes and Roses , Her Girdle that her wastfull waste incloses . Not one of these but 's honour'd with a Sonnet , If the said Poet be but set vpon it . Another seekes to winne his Wenches will , With oyly Oratories smooting skill :

As thus .

MOst inestimable Magazin of Beauty , r● Maister-piece of Nature , Perfections wonder , and Loues Quintessence , in whom the po●● and maiestie of Iuno , the feature of Cithere the wisedome of Ioues Braine-bred * * Pallas . Girle , ●● chastity of Diana , and the constancie of Luc●cia , haue their domesticall habitation , who w● the Goddesses are deifide , with the Graces graced , with the Vertues stellifide , with the Mus● honourd , and with the senses admired : vouchsa● dread Empresse of my Affections , to pardon ●● intrusiue boldnesse of my vntun'd tongue ( which was neuer tipt with the Courtly Glosse of Adulation ) who being the Ambassadour of my heart doth prostrate my selfe and my best seruices to 〈◊〉 disposed of at your great commaunds , and as the Refulgent beames of Titan makes purity of obscurity , so one glance or glimpse of the tranflucen● of your eyes sunne dazeling corruscancie , wi●● exile all the clowdy vapours of heart-tormenting moody mellancholly , that like an vsurpi●● Tyrant hath Captiuated your humble suppliant , thus feruently to Implore your Clemency .

Heere 's a sweete deale of scimble scamble stuffe , To please my Lady Wagtayle , ( marry muffe ) Gep with the Grinkcomes , ( but I speake too late ) This kinde of flatt'ry , makes a Whore take state , Crinkcomes is an Vtopian worde , which is in English a P. at Paris . Growes pocky proud , & in such port doth beare her , That such poore scabs as I , must not come neare her . Thus may she liue , ( much honour'd for her Crimes ) And haue the Poxe some twelue or 13. times , And shee may be so bountifull agen , To sell those Poxe to three or fourescore men . And thus the Surgeons may get more by farre By Whores and Peace , then by the Sword and warre . And thus a Whore ( if men consider of it ) ●an encreasing gainefull peece of profit . ●ut of all Whores , that I haue nam'd before , There 's none so Cunning as the Citty Whore , ●hee hath so many seuerall sorts of Bawdes , To cloake and couer her deceipts and fraudes , That sure the Deuill cannot more deuise Then she , to blinde her horned Husbands eyes . The offers Purles to sell , and fine Bone-lace , And whispers that her Friend 's in such a place : ● second offers Starch , and tels her how ●er sweet-heart tarries for her at the Plowe , A third sels Wafers , and a fourth hath Pins , And with these tricks these Bawdes admittance wins . That had her Husband Argos eyes , yet he By these deceiuers should deceiued be , If all these fayle , a Begger woman may , A sweet Loue letter to her hands conuay . Or a neate Laundresse , or a Hearbwife can , Carry a sleeuelesse message now and than , Or if this fayle , her teeth may Ake ( forsooth ) And then the Barbar must come drawe a Tooth . Or else she may be sicke ( vpon Condition ) That such a Doctor may be her Physition , He feeles her pulses , and applies his trade With Potions which th' Apothecary made , All 's one for that , her health she quickly gaines , Her Husband payes the Doctor for his paines . But of all Bawdes , Golde is the Bawde indeed , It seldome speakes but it is sure to speed : It can blinde Watches , open bolts and lockes , Breake walles of Stone , as hard as Marble rockes : Make Iron barres giue way , and Gates flye ope , Giues Lust the reynes to run with boundlesse see Kills Iealousie , appeases Riuals , and Doth what the owners will or can Command , And last of all it stops the biting iawes Of the iust rigorous , and seuerest Lawes . I therefore say , he that hath Golden pelfe , Hath a good Bawde , if so he please himselfe , Those that hath Gold , can want no Bawds or Que●● Except they vse a meane , to guide their meanes . To end this point , this consequence I le graunt , Those that haue Golden Bawds , no Whores can w●● And though the mighty power of Golde be such , A seraping miserable father , that cares not how he get Golde to leaue it to a Whoremaster his Son , is his Sons prouident Bawd . Yet Siluer ( many times ) can doe as much : Thus euery wealthy Whoremaster may beare His Bawde in 's purse , or pocket any where . For mine owne part , I liue not in such want , But that I eate and sleepe , though Coyne be scant : And cause I want the Bawde I nam'd before , By Consequence I needs must want the Whore . And wanting of them both , I hope to be From Gowtes , Pox , and extortion euer free . But as there 's wondrous difference in mens meate , So is the ods of Whores exceeding great : Some Rampant , & some Couchant , and some Passant , Some Guardant & some Dormant , & some Cressant , Some Pendant , some ( a Pox on 't ) but the best on 't , A priuate Whore , trades safely , there 's the Iest on 't . Besides , as Whores are of a seuerall cut , So fitting Titles on them still are put : ●or if a Princes loue to her decline , ●or manners sake shee 's call'd a Concubine : ●a great Lord , or Knight affect a Whore , She must be tearm'd his Honours Paramore , The rich Gull Gallant call's her Deare and Loue , Ducke , Lambe , Squall , Sweethart , Cony , and his Doue : ●pretty Wench she 's with the Countrey-man , And a Kinde Sister with the Puritane , ●e's a Priests Lemman , and a Tinkers Pad . 〈◊〉 Dell , or Doxy ( though the names be bad ) And amongst Soldiers this sweet peece of Vice 〈◊〉 counted for a Captaines Cockatrice . But the mad Rascall , when he 's fiue parts drunke , Cals her his Drah , his Queane , his syll , or Punke : And in his fury 'gins to Rayle and Rore , Then with full mouth , he truely cals her Whore , And so I leaue her , to her hot desires , 'Mongst Pimps and Panders , and base Aplesquire To mend or end , when Age or Pox will make her Detested , and Whoremasters all forsake her .

A Comparison betwixt a Whore and a Booke . ME thinkes I heare some Cauillers obiect That 't is a Name absurd and indirect , To giue a Booke the Title of a Whore , When sure I thinke no Name befits it more . For like a Whore by day light , or by Candle , 'T is euer free for euery Knaue to handle : And as a new Whore is belou'd and sought , So is a new Booke in request and bought , When Whores waxe old & stale , they 're out of 〈◊〉 Olde Pamphlets are most subiect to such fate . As Whores haue Panders , to emblaze their worth , So these haue Stationers to set them forth . And as an olde Whore may be painted new With borrowed Beauty , faire vnto the view , Whereby she for a fine fresh whore may passe , Yet is she but the Rotten whore she was . So Stationers , their olde cast Bookes can grace , And by new Titles paint a fresh their face , Whereby for Currant they are past away , As if they had come forth but yesterday . A Booke is Dedicated , now and than To some great worthy , or vnworthy man : Yet for all that 't is common vnto me , ●● thee , or he , or all estates that be , And so a man may haue a Whore ( forsooth ) ●pposing she is onely for his tooth , ●●t if the truth he would search out and looke , ●●e's common vnto all men like a Booke . 〈◊〉 Booke with gawdy Coate , and silken stringes , Whose inside's full of Obsceane beastly thinges , ● like a Whore , Caparison'd and trap'd , ●ull of Infection , to all mischiefe apt . ●●one Whore may be common vnto any , ● one Booke , may be Dedicate to many . And sure I say , and hope I speake no slaunder , 〈◊〉 such a Booke , the Poet is the Pander . 〈◊〉 prostitutes his Muse to euery one , ●hich should be Constant vnto one alone , ●his is a kinde of Bawd'ry vile and base , Is bounty , and is Poetryes disgrace . ●●d least they should be lost it is ordain'd , ●●t Bookes within a Library are Chain'd , ●hee that to himselfe will keepe a Whore , ●●st Chaine her , or she 'le trade with forty more . 〈◊〉 Bookes are leafe by leafe oft turn'd and tost , 〈◊〉 are the Garments of a whore ( almost ) 〈◊〉 both of them , with a wet finger may 〈◊〉 solded or vnfolded , Night or Day . Moreouer 't is not very hard to proue , That Bookes and Whores may Riuals be in Loue , ( To purchase mens displeasures I am loth ) But sure good Schollers still hath lou'd them both . Some Bookes haue their Errataes at the last That tels their Errors and offences past . So many great Whores did in state suruiue , But when Death did their hatefull liues depriue , Their faults escap'd and their Errataes then Hath beene made manifest and knowne to men . Some Bookes and Whores to wicked purpose bent Doe , for their faults receiue one punishment . As Bookes are often burnt , and quite forgotten , So Whores are ouerstew'd , or rosted rotten . Experience shewes that Bookes much knowledge bri●●● And by experience Whores know many Thinges . And as true Iustice , all mens losse repaires , So whores doe giue to all men what is their's . Terence she learnes , yet will she much Rebuke● If we doe play the part of true Eunuchus . As Bookes prophane , or else Hereticall , Or scurrillous , non sence Seismaticall , Peruerts mans Iudgement , and his soule pollutes , Such are all whores , and such will be their Fruites Some Slouens soyle a Booke in little space , And slauer it , and so the Leaues deface : And some againe will take a cleanly course To reade it dayly , yet 't is ne're the worse . So some men vse a whore , when once they haue They 'le touze and teare , and beastly all beslauer When Forty neat whoremasters might haue play'd And vsde her , and she still be thought a Mayde . ●e that doth Read a Booke he likes , would be ●●one , from any Interruption free , And he that with a whore , would toy or iye , ● thinke desires no other Company . When Bookes are wet , their beauty 's gone or soyl'd , 〈◊〉 , wash a whore , and all her paintings spoyl'd . ●●d as an olde whore ( spight of Paint or cloathing ) ●●lls at the last , the obiect of mens loathing , ●●om'd and vnpittyed , and to finish all , ●●es in a Ditch , or in an Hospitall . ● Pamphlets , and some workes of writers Graue 〈◊〉 vsde much worse then whores by many a Knaue . Who ne're regards the matter or the price , 〈◊〉 teare like Tyrants , to wrap Drugs or Spice , 〈◊〉 which is worse in Priuy matters vse them . 〈◊〉 worst of all , like Roarers they abuse them , When as they Rend good Bookes to light and dry 〈◊〉 ●acco ( Englands bainefull Diety ) . 〈◊〉 't is a thing I ne're thought on before , * * Now a● dayes . 〈◊〉 Booke 's examin'd stricter then a whore . 〈◊〉 ●re's not a Sheet , a Leafe , a Page , a Vearse , ●●orde , a sillable , or letter ( scarce ) 〈◊〉 that ( Authority ) with Iudgements eye , 〈◊〉 diligently looke , and search , and pry , 〈◊〉 gage the sence , and first will vnderstand all , ●●st in a Phrase , or word , there lurke a scandall . 〈◊〉 my poore whore in this hath not bin spar'd , 〈◊〉 skirts were curtayld , and her nayles were * * She wold haue scratched else . par'd . All 's one for that , though she such vsage had , She 's not left naked , though not richly clad , I knew she must be question'd and I say , I am right glad she scap'd so well away . And should all whores of high and lowe Degree , ( As Bookes are ) to account thus called be , The Whorish number would waxe very small , Or else men neuer could examine all . This Booke my Whore or else this whore my Boo● ( Shee beares both Names , so neither is mistooke ) Respects not all her enemies a straw , If she offended , she hath had the Law , She was examin'd , and she did Confesse , And hath endur'd the torture of the Presse : Her faults are Printed vnto all mens sight , Vnpartially declar'd in blacke and white , And last , in Pauls Church-yard , and in the street She suffers Pennance vp and downe in Sheets . And if all Whores , to doe the like were made , A Linnen Draper were the richest Trade . If any Whore be honester then mine is , I le write no more but stop my mouth with

FINIS .