The Fourth Volume of the Writings Of the Author of the London-Spy Prose and Verse [by Edward Ward] |
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A Lampoon upon Two Sisters, famous Strumpets in the City.
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A Lampoon upon Two Sisters, famous Strumpets in the City.
Two Sisters there are,
Both obliging and fair,
With agreeable Faces and Bodies,
Who some say are naught,
Yet they fain wou'd be thought
Full as chast as Diana the Goddess.
Both obliging and fair,
With agreeable Faces and Bodies,
Who some say are naught,
Yet they fain wou'd be thought
Full as chast as Diana the Goddess.
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They are merry and gay,
As our Milk-maids in May,
And are open and free in Behaviour,
You may smuggle and grope
For a Pint at the Pope,
But must pray for the ultimate Favour.
As our Milk-maids in May,
And are open and free in Behaviour,
You may smuggle and grope
For a Pint at the Pope,
But must pray for the ultimate Favour.
They are no common Drabs
But two dutiful Babes,
Who maintain both their Father and Mother,
By wagging their Scuts,
They provide for their Guts,
Both of them and a bullying Brother.
But two dutiful Babes,
Who maintain both their Father and Mother,
By wagging their Scuts,
They provide for their Guts,
Both of them and a bullying Brother.
Who therefore can blame,
Or upbraid them with Shame
For playing at Hey diddle diddle,
Should they be reserv'd,
All the Clan must be starv'd,
Then O why should their Arses be idle?
Or upbraid them with Shame
For playing at Hey diddle diddle,
Should they be reserv'd,
All the Clan must be starv'd,
Then O why should their Arses be idle?
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They range its well known
All the ends of the Town,
And delight to be kind as their pritty,
They Trade, by report,
From the Noble at Court,
To th'Apprentice that lives in the City.
All the ends of the Town,
And delight to be kind as their pritty,
They Trade, by report,
From the Noble at Court,
To th'Apprentice that lives in the City.
Their Jilting and Loving,
With Heaving and Shoving,
Maintains the whole Family round,
And should not the Cracks
Earn their Food on their Backs,
Soon their Bellies would empty be found.
With Heaving and Shoving,
Maintains the whole Family round,
And should not the Cracks
Earn their Food on their Backs,
Soon their Bellies would empty be found.
The Mother connives
At their Libertine Lives,
They sin on with her Approbation;
The Brother defends
For some sinester Ends,
Their Honour and Reputation.
At their Libertine Lives,
They sin on with her Approbation;
The Brother defends
For some sinester Ends,
Their Honour and Reputation.
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He'll challenge the Man
Who shall offer to stain
His Sisters, with any Reflection;
But yet has more Wit,
Than to meet or to fight,
For a Sword he has no great Affection.
Who shall offer to stain
His Sisters, with any Reflection;
But yet has more Wit,
Than to meet or to fight,
For a Sword he has no great Affection.
The Dad was a Bumm,
But he sold for a Sum;
To be Bawd is the Pride of their Mother,
The Daughters win Hearts,
Thus they all act their Parts,
And the Bully is plaid by the Brother.
But he sold for a Sum;
To be Bawd is the Pride of their Mother,
The Daughters win Hearts,
Thus they all act their Parts,
And the Bully is plaid by the Brother.
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