The Modern World disrob'd or, both sexes Stript of their pretended vertue. In Two Parts. First, Of the Ladies. Secondly, Of the Gentlemen. With Familiar Descant upon every Character [by Edward Ward] |
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The Great Man's Prostitute:
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The Great Man's Prostitute:
OR, The Original of an Actress taken into Keeping.
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When
Beauty does adorn the Lass
In poor dejected Station,
'Tis seldom 'company'd with Grace,
For want of Education.
In poor dejected Station,
'Tis seldom 'company'd with Grace,
For want of Education.
Tho' Nature has been greatly kind,
And all her Pow'r exerted,
Yet, where there wants a vertuous Mind,
Those Blessings are perverted.
And all her Pow'r exerted,
Yet, where there wants a vertuous Mind,
Those Blessings are perverted.
The Son, by an ill Father bred,
One copies from the other;
Nor will fair Looks preserve the Maid
From proving like her Mother.
One copies from the other;
Nor will fair Looks preserve the Maid
From proving like her Mother.
And he that's am'rously inclin'd
T'ingross the fickle Creature,
Will find no Love or Gold will bind
The Baseness of her Nature.
T'ingross the fickle Creature,
Will find no Love or Gold will bind
The Baseness of her Nature.
She's mix'd with such a course Allay,
That Art can ne'er refine her,
And thinks 'tis witty to betray
The Fool that glories in her:
That Art can ne'er refine her,
And thinks 'tis witty to betray
The Fool that glories in her:
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For who can be accounted wise,
Tho' ne'er so rich and noble,
That's drawn by such a Harlot's Eyes,
To be a Keeping-Bubble?
Tho' ne'er so rich and noble,
That's drawn by such a Harlot's Eyes,
To be a Keeping-Bubble?
If Men of Honour must be lewd,
And will be Womens Cullies,
Let 'em not mix their noble Blood
With Scoundrels bred in Alleys;
And will be Womens Cullies,
Let 'em not mix their noble Blood
With Scoundrels bred in Alleys;
But, with young City Dames, engage
The Spawn of broken Mayors,
And not corrupt the Royal Stage
To th'Scandal of the Players.
The Spawn of broken Mayors,
And not corrupt the Royal Stage
To th'Scandal of the Players.
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