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Were she a whore of mine, All thy loud cannons, and thy borrow'd Switzers, Thy galleys, nor thy sworn confederates, Durst not supplant her.

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Are all these ruins of my former beauty Laid out for a whore's triumph?

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So--I will try now whether they wit be close prisoner--methinks none should sit upon thy sister, but old whore-masters---- Flam.

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Whore-masters would serve; for none are judges at tilting, but those that have been old tilters.

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I must spare you, till proof cry whore to that.

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Who knows not how, when several night by night Her gates were chok'd with coaches, and her rooms Outbrav'd the stars with several kind of lights; When she did counterfeit a prince's court In music, banquets, and most riotous surfeits; This whore forsooth was holy.

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whore!

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Shall I expound whore to you?

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What are whores!

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What are whores!

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Your rich whores Are only treasuries by extortion fill'd, And emptied by curs'd riot.

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What's a whore!

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You know what whore is.

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For your names Of 'whore' and 'murderess', they proceed from you, As if a man should spit against the wind, The filth returns in 's face.

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A house of penitent whores.

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Your sister is a damnable whore.

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I 'll cut her into atomies, And let th' irregular north wind sweep her up, And blow her int' his nostrils: where 's this whore?

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you shall be a brave great lady, A stately and advanced whore.

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did not the judge style it A house of penitent whores?

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What dar'st thou do, that I not dare to suffer, Excepting to be still thy whore?

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Thy fame, fond duke, I first have poison'd; directed thee the way To marry a whore; what can be worse?

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_The Honest Whore, Pt.

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At Bourges in Berry theirs no church of the religion, since, notwtstanding its a considerable toune, their are none of the religion their, but one family, consisting of a old woman and hir 2 daughters, both whores; the one of them on hir deathbed turned Catholick when Mr. Grahame was their.

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His daughter was the arrantest whore in Bourges.

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Tuo boyes studieing the grammar in the Jesuits Colledge at Poictiers, disputing before the regent on their Lesson, the on demanded, _Mater cuius generis est_: the other, knowing that the mother of the proponer had a wery ill name of a whore, replied wittily, _distinguo; da distinctionem_ then; replied, _si intelligas de meâ est faeminini; si de tua, est communis_ (in the same sort does Rosse tel it).

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Nixt if ye do it on so good a account, whence comes it that the whores most buy their licence by a 100,000 livres a year they pay to your exchequer, whey have they not simply their liberty since its a act, as ye say, of so good consequence?

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This hes great resemblance wt that custome in England that a man being sentenced to dy, if a common whore demand him in marriage she wil get him; it being a charitable work to recal a whore from hir loose and prophan life by making hir marry.

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A prostitute whore.

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Wee'l break the windows which the Whore Of Babylon hath painted; And, when the Popish Saints are down, Then Barow shall be Sainted.

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Perkins fell quickly among such a set, and often rambled abroad with them on the usual errands of whoring, shuffle-board, or skittle-playing, etc.

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His companions were several young men of the same stamp with himself, who placed all their delight in the sensual and brutal pleasures of drinking, gaming, whoring and idling about, without betaking themselves to any business.

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Some common whores, also, finding him to be a poor country fellow, easily seduced him and kept him amongst them for a stallion, until, between their lust and their diseases, they had put him in a fair road to the grave.

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No sooner had she taken care of the booty but he went among his old companions, pickpockets and whores in Drury Lane and Clare Market.

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As it happened they were all present pretty full of money, and so under no necessity of going upon any enterprise directly, wherefore they loitered up and down the fields until towards evening, when they thought they might venture unto town, and pass the time in their usual pleasures of drinking, gaming, and whoring.

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This was a proper university for one who had been bred in such a school; so that there is no wonder he became so great a proficient in all sorts of wickedness, gaming, drinking, and whoring, which appear not to such poor creatures as sins, but as the pleasures of life, about which they ought to spend their whole care; and, indeed, how should it be otherwise, where they know nothing that better deserves it.

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to the broker, and as much to the whore.

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It was in vain for her to talk of her goods and her clothes; the captain had carried her amongst a set of his acquaintance, who on the first quarrel called her a thousand foolish English whores, and bid her go back to her Justice's clerk again.

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But as soon as he was out of it he addicted himself to gaming, drinking and whoring, and all the other vices which are so natural to abandoned young fellows in low life.

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Why, really, it was spent in drink, gaming and in whores, three articles which ran so high amongst these knight-errants in low life that Barnham and two more found a way to lavish an hundred and twenty pounds on them in three weeks.

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For it is a truth deducible from uninterrupted experience that a whore is not to be maintained at the same easy expense with a wife.

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From that time forwards he gave a loose to all his brutal inclinations, associated himself with nobody but common whores and thieves, spent his time in gaming, when not engaged in a worse employment, and never, after his acquaintance with Bradley, thought of doing anything either just or honest.

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He received tolerably good education at school, and was brought up by his father to his own business; but he was of a lewd disposition, continually running after whores, keeping lewd company, gaming and drinking until he was able neither to stand nor go.

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He confessed his having been as great a sinner as his years would give him leave, addicted to whoring, drunkenness, gaming and having quite obliterated all the religious principles which his former education had instilled into him.

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My evil habits were so rooted in me, and I was grown unfit for any other kind of employment; and therefore, although in compliance with my friends I resolved to go to the gallows after the usual manner, kneeling with a book in my hand and my eyes lift up, yet I shall feel no more devotion in my heart than I observed in some of my comrades, who have been drunk among common whores the very night before their execution.

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Thirdly, nothing is more dangerous to idle young fellows than the company of those odious common whores we frequent, and of which this town is full.

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I know not what it is, that we are never easy until we are half drunk among our whores and companions, nor sleep sound, unless we drink longer than we can stand.

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Every man amongst us keeps his particular whore, who is however common to us all when we have a mind to change.

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I believe in my conscience, that if an account were made of a thousand pounds in stolen goods, considering the low rates we sell them at, the bribes we must give for concealment, the extortions of alehouse reckonings, and other necessary charges there would not remain fifty pounds clear to be divided among the robbers, and out of this we must find clothes for whores, besides treating them from morning until night, who in requital award us with nothing but treachery and the pox, for when our money is gone, they are every moment threatening to inform against us, if we will not get out to look for more.

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If anything in this world be like Hell, as I have heard it described by our clergy, the truest picture of it must be in the back room of one of our alehouses at midnight, where a crew of robbers and their whores are met together after a booty, and are beginning to grow drunk, from that time until they are past their senses, in such a continued horrible noise of cursing, blasphemy, lewdness, scurrility, and brutish behaviour, such roaring and confusion, such a clatter of mugs and pots at each other's heads, that Bedlam in comparison is a sober and orderly place.

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At last they all tumble from their stools and benches, and sleep away the rest of the night, and generally the landlord or his wife, or some other whore, who has a stronger head than the rest, picks their pockets before they awake.

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcomb, William, a housebreaker Newfoundland Newgate Newman, Mr. Nathaniel Newmarket New Mint New Prison New York Nichols, John Richard, a thief Robert _Night Rambler_, a pirate sloop Nisbet, a joiner Northampton Norwich Nottingham Nunney, Luke, a murderer Oakey, Richard, a footpad Oblivion, Act of (1660) O'Brian, a thief O'Bryan, James, a highwayman Ogden, Samuel, highwayman Old Bailey Old Spa, Clerkenwell Oliver, Robert, a thief Oporto Osborn, Elizabeth Ouranaquoy, an Indian chief Overbery, Sir Thomas Owen, Griffith, a highwayman Oxford Road Packer, Thomas, a highwayman Palermo Pall Mall Parford, Mr. Paris Parvin, Richard, a deer-stealer Paternoster Row Patrick, Samuel Payne, Mrs. Diana John Sarah, an infamous woman _Peine fort et Dure_ Pennsylvania Penrice, Sir Henry Perkins, Robert, a thief Perrier, Jacques, a French robber _Perry_ galley Perry, Edward John, and his family, murderers Thomas, a footpad Peterson, a pirate Phelps Philadelphia Philip, a justice's clerk Philpot, Mr., a surveyor Piccadilly Picken, Joseph, a highwayman Pincher, William Pink, Edward and John, deer-stealers Pitts, Colonel Plantations of America Poison, Thomas, a footpad Porto Santo, Madeira Portsmouth Road Pots, Philip Poultry Compter Powell, Sir John Prague, description of Pressing, as a punishment Price, John, a housebreaker Pugh, John, highwayman Purney, Ordinary of Newgate Putney Common Pye, Richard Quakers, robbed Rag Fair Ransom, John Ratcliff Highway Rawlins, Christopher, a thief Mary (Black Mary) Thomas Raymond, Lord Chief Justice Read, Robert William William, of Campden Reading, James Receiving, practised by Wild Reddey, Eleanor Red Lion Fields Square Reeves, Thomas, a highwayman _Revenge_, a pirate galley Rewards, for apprehending criminals Reynolds, Edward, a thief Rice Rivers, Thomas, a thief Roberts, Dorcas Robinson, Mary, a shoplift Roche, Philip, a pirate Rogers, William, a thief Captain Woodes Rondeau, Anne Rose Sponging-house Rotterdam Rouden, John, _alias_ Hulks, a thief Russell, William, a footpad Sadler's Wells St. Albans St. Andrew's, Holborn St. George's Fields St. Giles's Pound Round-house St. James's Park St. Margaret's, Westminster St. Pancras St. Paul's, Covent Garden St. Sepulchre's Bell-man St. Swithin's Alley, Cornhill St. Thomas's Hospital Salisbury Salter, Peter Sanctuaries in London Sanders, Francis, a thief Sandford Santa Cruz Scarborough, Earl of Schmidt, Frederick, alterer of bank-notes Scrimgeour Scurrier, Richard, a shoplift Sefton, William, a thief Sells, Samuel Sharp, Mark, a murderer Shaw, James, a highwayman Sheldon, Mrs. Shelterers, the Shepherd, Jack, highwayman, and prisonbreaker Richard, a housebreaker Thomas, a thief Sherbourne Sherwood, James, a footpad Shoreditch Shrewsberry, _alias_ Smith, Joseph, a robber Shrewsbury Shrimpton, Ferdinand, a highwayman Sikes, James Simpson, William, a horse-stealer Sleaford Smith, Bryan, a blackmailer John, a murderer Mary, a whore Simon Thomas, a highwayman Smithfield Smoky Chimney Doctor, _see_ Drury, A. Smyrna Snow, Foster Southampton Street Spain, expedition to Spencer, Barbara, a coiner Sperry, William, a footpad Springate, Mrs. Spring Gardens Stabbing, Statute of Standford, Mary, a pickpocket Stanley, Captain John, a murderer Stephens, Catherine Stepney Stevens, Mary Stinton, Thomas Stockden, Worcestershire Stocks, Market Stone, John Sunderland Swaffo, Baron Swift, William, a thief Tartoue, Peter Taverns, _see_ Inns Temple, The Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Sir William, recorder Thomson, John, a highwayman Tilt Yard, Westminster Timms, Thomas, a footpad Tompkins, Mr. Toon, James, a thief Tothill Fields, Bridewell Tottenham Court Road Tower Hill Towers, Mr. Charles, a minter Transportation Trantham, Richard, a housebreaker Trig Stairs Trippuck, John, a highwayman Turner, Mrs. Elizabeth John, _alias_ Civil John, a highwayman Turnham Green Tyburn Tyrrell, John, a horse-stealer Upton, John, a pirate Vanloden, Baron and Countess Vaux, Thomas, a street-robber Vigo Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane Wakeling, Mr. Walden, Matthew Walker, Ann Waller, John Waltham Blacks, the Wandsworth Wapping Ward Joseph, a footpad Waterford Watts, Sarah, a fence Weaver, Charles, a murderer Weedon, George, a footpad Wendover West, Jeddediah John Westbrook, a surgeon West Chester Chester, Pennsylvania Haden, Northants Westwood, James Thomas, a footpad Whalebone, _alias_ Welbone, John, a thief Whinyard, Mr. White, Abraham, a thief James, a thief Whitechapel Whitefriars Whittingham, Richard, a footpad Wight, Isle of Wigley, John, a highwayman Wild, Jonathan, thief-taker Wildgoose, a servant Wileman, Benjamin, a highwayman Wilkinson, Robert, a murderer Willesden Green Will the Sailor Williams, a pirate Willis, a constable Willoughby, Mr. Wilson, Thomas, a footpad Windsor Winship, John, a highwayman Wise, Captain Wood, Thomas Woodbury Hill, Dorset Woodman, Richard, a highwayman Wood Street Compter Worcester Worebington, Roger Wright, James, a highwayman Yarmouth Yates, _alias_ Gates, _alias_ Vulcan York, Mr. Yorkshire Bob, a housebreaker Young, John, a highwayman Hon.

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If they bring the daily tribute, they may whore or steal, and have no questions asked, provided no complaint is made against them.

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No maiden was forced to offer herself to the lion; but if she refused, it was a disgrace to marry her, and every one might have liberty of calling her a whore.

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It is I think, a known story of a gentleman who fought another for calling him "son of a whore;" but the lady desired her son to make no more quarrels upon that subject, _because it was true_.

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It shews the miserable lives, and the constant fate of those abandoned wretches; for how little they sell their lives and souls; betrayed by their whores, their comrades, and the receivers and purchasers of these thefts and robberies.

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bitch, n. slut; whore.

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harlot, n. prostitute, courtesan, whore.

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prostitute, n. harlot, whore, strumpet, courtesan.

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whore, n. harlot, prostitute, strumpet, courtesan, wench, Cyprian, bawd, drab, punk, woman of ill fame, demirep.

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The honor of the church's exalted Head being still engaged to maintain the right of conquest he had obtained over this remote isle, and raise up his work out of the ruins, under which it had lain so long buried; he, about the beginning of the 15th century, animated some valiant champions (Messrs. Hamilton, Wishart, and others) with a spirit of truth and heroic courage, to contend against the abominations of the Babylonish whore, whose labors, by the blessing of Heaven, were rendered successful, to open the eyes of some to see, and engage many others to inquire after, and espouse the truth as it is in JESUS.

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And Charles II, who had lately, by all the confirmations of word, writ, and solemn oath, obliged himself for the maintenance and defense of religion and liberty, having cast off the thing that was good, the enemy did pursue him so, that he, instead of being able to stand as a head of defense to the nations, narrowly escaped with life from the enemies' hands, being obliged to abscond and fly before the sectaries into France; where, and in other parts, he remained an exile for the space of ten years, and there discovered, he had no regard to the principles he had lately professed and sworn to maintain: but breaking his professed wedlock with CHRIST, is said, at that juncture, to have joined hands with the Romish whore, laying aside his cloak of professed godliness, and again taking up with the mystery of iniquity.

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Patronage was always by the Church of _Scotland_ since the reformation, accounted an intolerable yoke; and therefore she never ceased contending against it until it was at last utterly abolished by acts both of reforming assemblies and parliaments; and that as one of the inventions of the whore of _Rome_.

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He states their tenets as follows: "That the church of Rome, because it renounced the true faith of Christ, WAS THE WHORE OF BABYLON ... that consequently _no obedience was to be paid to the Pope_, or to the bishops who maintain her errors; that a monastic life was the sink and dungeon of the church, the vows of which [relating to celibacy] were vain ... that the orders of the priesthood were marks of the great beast mentioned in the Apocalypse; that the fire of purgatory, the solemn mass, the consecration days of churches, the worship of saints, and propitiations for the dead, were the devices of Satan."

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And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2.

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The civil powers of Europe have usually lent themselves as a caparisoned hack for this great whore to ride upon and have considered themselves highly honored thereby.

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And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

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And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

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For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

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The great whore of Babylon had her likeness taken and then committed to her for preservation.

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D.'s best play is _Old Fortunatus_ (1606), others are _The Shoemaker's Holiday_ (1600), _Honest Whore_ (1604), _Roaring Girl_ (1611), _The Virgin Martyr_ (1622) (with Massinger), and _The Witch of Edmonton_ (1658) (with Ford and Rowley), _History of Sir Thomas Wyat_, _Westward Ho_, and _Northward Ho_, all with Webster.

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7:26, 27; 24 | | | 2:34, 35 ----------------+---------------------+----------------+------------------- [Sidenote: Great Babylon] A more particular description of the antitypical Babylon is given by the Revelator in the seventeenth chapter, as follows: "And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

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She is "a great whore," "with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication."

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That the papacy is symbolized in chapter 17 by the corrupt whore sitting on the ten-horned beast, is too plain to need any particular demonstration.

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On the southern bank of the Thames River was growing the disorderly suburb of Southwark, with fishermen's and boatmens' hovels, and taverns and brothels that were frequented by drunkards, rakes, and whores.

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One such ballad goes: "Through all the employments of life Each neighbor abuses his brother; Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife; All professions be-rogue one another.

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Another is: "A Fox may steal your hens, sir, A Whore your health and pence, sir, Your daughter rob your chest, sir, Your wife may steal your rest, sir, A thief your goods and plate.

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husbands for Whores and Bawds, away you wind suckers; do not look big, nor prate, nor stay, nor grumble and when you are gone, seem to laugh at my fury, and slight this Lady, I shall hear, and know this: and though I am not bound to fight for women, as far they are good I dare preserve 'em: be not too bold, for if you be, I'le swinge you monstrously without all pity, your honours now goe, avoid me mainly.

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Their moderate prolificacy grew stronger with the coming of the rain; where the men chased their wives and daughters, their mistresses and their whores, out into the streets.

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Within the Quadrangle of the Cathedral, all the members were locked-in during the rain, with dozens of whores and other town's wenches, that were promised good food and a place to stay for one month, in return for their services when the eagerly awaited rain finally arrived.

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"It is obvious that you are a progeny of a whore and a mad dog, Orren!"

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-- Oppressive son-of-whores and satyrs!

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These are whoring, drinking, and gaming.

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The Russian novelist, Artzibascheff, in his _Sanine_ described a brother's affection for his sister as thus touched with a perception of her sexual charm (I refer to the French translation), and the book has consequently been much abused as "incestuous," though the attitude described is very pale and conventional compared to the romantic passion sung in Shelley's _Laon and Cythna_, or the tragic exaltation of the same passion in Ford's great play, "_'Tis Pity She's a Whore_."

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Every time I received the sacrament, which I was forced to do very young, I repented of my intention of whoring at 18--as a man 'must' do--and afterward I relapsed to the expectation.

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I had not understood what I was about in expecting to whore.

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It became plain that there would be no whoring or the like for me; I was far too proud and fastidious.

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In 1724, in his _Modest Defense of Publick Stews_, he argues that "the encouraging of public whoring will not only prevent most of the mischievous effects of this vice, but even lessen the quantity of whoring in general, and reduce it to the narrowest bounds which it can possibly be contained in."

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To Jones's arguments he replies: "Common-sense warrants all you say, but yet you well know that the opinion of the world is so contrary to it, that were I to marry a whore, though my own, I should be ashamed of ever showing my face again."

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Mrs. Pepys is not satisfied, however, till she makes her husband write a letter to Deb, telling her that she is little better than a whore, and that he hates her, though Deb is spared this, not by any stratagem of Pepys, but by the considerateness of the friend to whom the letter was entrusted for delivery.

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But, lest we should for honour take The drunken quarrels of a rake: Or think it seated in a scar, Or on a proud triumphal car; Or in the payment of a debt We lose with sharpers at piquet; Or when a whore, in her vocation, Keeps punctual to an assignation; Or that on which his lordship swears, When vulgar knaves would lose their ears; Let Stella's fair example preach A lesson she alone can teach.

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Sometimes in panegyric high, Like lofty Pindar, I can soar; And raise a virgin to the sky, Or sink her to a pocky whore.

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At twelve, a wit and a coquette; Marries for love, half whore, half wife; Cuckolds, elopes, and runs in debt; Turns authoress, and is Curll's for life.

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Sunderland, Orford, Boyle, and Richmond's grace Will come; and Hampden shall have Walpole's place; Wharton, unless prevented by a whore, Will hardly fail; and there is room for more; But I love elbow-room whene'er I drink; And honest Harry is too apt to stink.

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Such a worm was Will Wood, when he scratch'd at the door Of a governing statesman or favourite whore; The death of our nation he seem'd to foretell, And the sound of his brass we took for our knell.

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I'm a son of a whore If I have a word more To say in this wretched condition.

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I ask (if what you say be true) If you affirm the present age Deserves your satire's keenest rage; If that same universal passion With every vice has fill'd the nation: If virtue dares not venture down A single step beneath the crown: If clergymen, to show their wit, Praise classics more than holy writ: If bankrupts, when they are undone, Into the senate-house can run, And sell their votes at such a rate, As will retrieve a lost estate: If law be such a partial whore, To spare the rich, and plague the poor: If these be of all crimes the worst, What land was ever half so curst?

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I bravely call the Tories Jacks, And sons of whores--behind their backs.

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A WICKED TREASONABLE LIBEL[1] While the king and his ministers keep such a pother, And all about changing one whore for another, Think I to myself, what need all this strife, His majesty first had a whore of a wife, And surely the difference mounts to no more Than, now he has gotten a wife of a whore.

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