An Answer to the poor whore's complaint in a letter from a bully spark of the town to Mistres Nell ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B16690 of text R224744 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B17164 Wing A3431 ocm 10826423

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An ANSWER TO THE Poor Whore's Complaint , In a Letter , from a Bully Spark of the Town , to Mistress Nell , the common Crack of Fleet-street ; containing his Sorrow for her sad Complaint . To the Tune of , The Guinea wins her , &c. AS I was ranging Nelly , Through famous London City , The Heart within my Belly , Did grieve and ake with Pity , For there I heard the Women sing , Till they made the very Streets to ring , That you were poor and bare , And had no Smock to wear : What Mistress Nell , thought I ! Sure this must be a lye , But strait they did reply , It was true , she having nothing scarce to do . You had a good beginning , And liv'd in seeming Glory , But now your lace and linning Is gone to Purgatory ; My meaning is the Broaker's claws ; Now I have consider'd what 's the cause That you so Poor are made , 't is ean for want of Trade ; The Bullies Hearts may ake , And their Foundations shake , When Cracks in Fleet-street brake ; For I know , it soon will prove their overthrow . Ah! Nell , there is too many , With Impudence attended , When there should not be any , But what from Cracks descended ; Yet here they come up e'ry week , From the very Devil's Arse-a-peak , Both East , West , North and South , And out of Nelly's Mouth They Eat the bread of fame , And tho' from York they came , It is a burning shame This should be , when of the Trade they are not Free . But Nelly , with Submission , This might be regulated ; Then draw up your Petition To be incorporated ; The Parliment of Women , they In their wisdom may find out a way , By some new Female-Law , To keep the Cracks in awe , And make the number low , For now in Troops they go , Therefore , some Laws I know Must be made , or they will ruin quite the Trade . There ought to be ●o other , According to Discretion , But those whose tender Mother , Was of the same Profession ; But here 's Doll , Bridget , Kate and Prue , A ragged tribe of Deal knows who , Took up the Trade of late , And work at any rate ; They do at Corners ply , And as Men passes by , They have them in their eye , Ah! poor Nell , this clearly spoils thy living well . From Fleet-street to the Tower , In all the Nanny-housen , There 's common Cracks a power , Full five and fifty Thousand , A now to over-run the Land ; Therefore let 's endeavour out of hand , These Gillions to suppr●ss , And make the number less , For if we don't subdue , This tatter'd ragged crew , 't will be the worse for you , Nell , I know , 't is they that keeps the Prizes low .

LONDON : Printed for J. Bissel , near the Hospital-gate in West-Smithfield .