The Whores and Bawds Answer to the Fifteen Comforts of Whoring | Page 8

Ninth P----._
_How many Sweethearts do these follow me
Whose fell Design I

know's to Ruine me;
but let me banish this forbidden Fire,
Or
quench it with my Blood, or with't expire;
Unstain'd in Honour; and
unhurt in Fame,
I'll never blast Virginity Shame,_
_The Tenth P----._
_A Sailor vowing he would all his Life,
Be true to me, he took
another Wife;
whose Folshood (not as e're he did Invade
My
Honour) made me sick, and, dying, said,
Ah now at my last Hour I
gasping lie:
Let only my kind Murtherer be by,
Let him, while I
breath out my Soul in Sighs,
Or gaz't away, look on with pitying Eyes;

Let him (for sure he can't deny me this)
Seal my cold Lips with one
dear parting Kiss._
_The Eleventh P----._
_To have a Sweetheart once it was my Fate,
Whom much I lov'd, and
now as much do hate,
Fo going to be coupled for my Life,
He was
took from me by a former Wife;
Henceforwards I shall ever cautious
be
Of Marrying one, a Stranger unto me._
_The Twelfth P----._
_A Sweetheart whom I lov'd, and he lov'd me,
Intoxicated with
Cursed Jealousie,
Without a Cause, my Innocence did slight,
Which
urged soon my Passion thus to write,
Kind Health, which you, and
only you can grant,
Which, if deny'd, I must for ever want;
To you
your Lover sends; but blushing Shame,
In silence bids my Paper hide
my Name.
Witness what Pains (for you alone can know)
Poor
helpless I do bear and undergo;
A thousand Racks and Martyrdoms,
and more
Than a weak Virgin can be thought, I bore:
You rule
alone my Arbitrary Fate,
And Life and on your disposal wait.
How
little more remains for me to crave!
How little more for you to give!
O save
A wretched Maid undone by Love and you,
Who does in
Tears and dying Accents sue;
Who bleeds that Passion she had ne'er

reveal'd,
If not by Love, Almighty Love compell'd:_
No ever let her
mournful Tomb complain,
Here _Phillis_, kill'd by your cold Disdain;

And to her Honour let it e'er be said,
She dy'd a faithful Lover, yet
a Maid.
_The Thirteenth P----._
Blessed with Beauty, Money, Youth and Wit,
I'm daily plagu'd with
some Penurious Cit,
But e'er I will to such be forc'd to yield,
To a
Man of Sense I Will resign the Field,
For Men of Breeding more of
Love can show,
Than dull Mechanicks e'er can learn or know.
_The Fourteenth P----._
A Maid can scarce into a Service get,
But Prentice Boys (void both of
Sense and Wit)
Will lead the Servant such a tedious Life,
To
Change the Name of Maid to that of Wife,
That she, to shun their
solid Impudence,
Must leave her Service in her own Defence.
_Fifteenth P----._
What spiteful Star, when I was Born did Rule,
That I'm thus teazed
with a whining Fool,
Which is the very worst of Fools; for he,
Got
in a Stran of dull Simplicity,
Crys, _Agdes!_ See my looks, my
wishing Eyes,
My melting Tears and hear my begging Sighs;
About
your Neck I could have flung my Arms,
And been all over Love, all
over Charms;
Grasp and hang on your K----, and there have dy'd,
There breath my gasping Soul out tho' deny'd.
My earnest Suits shall
never give you rest,
While Life and Love more durable shall last;

Alive I'll Pray, 'till Breath in Pray'rs be lost, And after come a kind
beseeching Ghost.
He thought these soft Expressions soon might
move My Heart, which was bequeath'd before to Love,
No, no, these
whiedling Fops I really hate,
And since I am resolv'd to change my
State,
A Man of Wit and Sense I do adore,
To him I grant my
Favours and my Store,
As certain Wedlock with so good a Choice,


May make my Judgment, whilst I live rejoice.
_FINIS._
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