The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony:Responses From Women
Responses From Women
Various
9781465526465
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Library of Alexandria
Overview
THE Whores and Bawds, Answer, &c. The first Comfort of Whoring, Answer'd. No sooner does a Maid arrive to Years, And she the Pleasures of Conjunction hears, But strait her Maidenhead a Tip-toe runs, To get her like, in Daughters or in Sons; Upon some jolly Lad she casts her Eye, And with some am'rous Gestures by the by; She gives him great Encouragement to take His fill of Love, and swears that for his sake She soon shall Die; which makes the Youth so hot To get about the Maiden’s Honey-pot, That promising her Marriage and the like, They both a Bargain very quickly Strike; [*?] Rubbers often take till she does prove With Child, then she bids adieu to Love; And e're she’s brought to Bed away does Creep, For fear he should the Wenche’s Urchin keep. The Second Comfort of Whoring, Answer'd. Now when a Maid has crackt her Maidenhead, By being once or twice (Sir) brought to Bed, Her Credit then’s so broke that all her Wit, And Policy cannot a Husband get; But yet not being out of Heart she Cries, From Marriage keeping I shall be more wise, For if he’s not a Fool he soon will find, I had before I'd him to some been kind, Then how he'd call me arrant Bitch and Whore, And Swear some Stallion had been there before; Then leave me, Wherefore I will single Live, And my Invention to decoying give, For as I was by fickle Man betray'd, So Men by me too shall be Bubbles made, Till the dull Sots clandestine Means do take, In robbing Masters,for a Strumpets sake, For which if they shou'd at the Gallows Swing, Their End I'd in some merry Ditty Sing
