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A modest defence of publick stews; or, An essay upon whoring, as it is now practis’d in these kingdoms choose

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[UK] B. Mandeville An Essay upon Whoring iii: This Branch of Immorality has grown under your Hands.
at coral branch, n.
[UK] B. Mandeville An Essay upon Whoring iv: What better could we expect from Your Carting of Bawds.
at cart, v.
[UK] B. Mandeville An Essay upon Whoring iii: From Your stopping up those Drains and Sluices we had to let out Lewdness [...] Those Ramparts and Ditches within which the Virtue of our Wives and daughters lay so conveniently intrench’d.
at ditch, n.
[UK] B. Mandeville An Essay upon Whoring iii: From Your stopping up those Drains and Sluices we had to let out Lewdness. Your demolishing those Horn-works and Breast-works of Modesty? Those Ramparts and Ditches within which the Virtue of our Wives and daughters lay so conveniently intrench’d.
at drain, n.2
[UK] B. Mandeville An Essay upon Whoring iv: The Gods [...] have given us one disobedient and unruly Member, which, [...] grows wild and furious, till [...] he has plentifully besprinkled and bedewed the Bottom of the Womb.
at member, n.1
[UK] B. Mandeville An Essay upon Whoring iii: From Your stopping up those Drains and Sluices we had to let out Lewdness [...] Those Ramparts and Ditches within which the Virtue of our Wives and daughters lay so conveniently intrench’d.
at sluice, n.
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