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The Whores Dialogue Briefly Discovering the Cheats, Abuses, and Trappaning Trades which they drive; their ways to entice young Cullies; their picking Gentlemens Pockets, their alluring looks and fawning Carriage to draw in Customers; with the common dangers they lie under by the rude Rout, and destructions they come to at last. As Also A Briefe Character of a Lady of Pleasure choose

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[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 7: It was her fortune to die of an outlandish Disease, which she got by a Clap of a French coultstaff.
at blow with a French faggot-stick, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 6: A reverend Matron of our profession whom the vulgar do Icleap a Bawd.
at abbess, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 7: Were it not for his [i.e. a civet-cat’s] sir reverence, I should have such a strong savor, that I suppose a Cobler would disdain to kiss me, much less such vaporing blades as come to our house with their faces muffled.
at blade, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue Epistle: Those who will believe what is here written, but fall into trading with those Bona Roba’s of lasciviousness.
at bona roba, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 11: The next degree is Buzzard Bawd, which is the highest preferment she is capable off [sic], soon after which she departs away like the snuff of a candle .
at buzzard, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 7: It was her fortune to die of an outlandish Disease, which she got by a Clap of a French coultstaff.
at clap, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 2: [It] would not suffer us poor, weak vessels to be boarded by them, notwithstanding many of us were fire-ships.
at fireship, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 2: It put us into such a Pocky fear, we begun all of us to smell like fish of three days catching.
at fish, n.1
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 5: I can [...] rant it and swear with domineering Hectors.
at hector, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 5: We were Ladies of Pleasure, so we had a very pleasurable house, Gardens of pleasure, Arbors of pleasure, hang’d Rooms of pleasure, and beds of pleasures, where Gentlemen for their Money had their pleasure with us.
at house of delight (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 7: Were it not for his [i.e. a civet-cat’s] sir reverence, I should have such a strong savor, that I suppose a Cobler would disdain to kiss me, much less such vaporing blades as come to our house with their faces muffled.
at house, n.1
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 5: We were Ladies of Pleasure, so we had a very pleasurable house, Gardens of pleasure, Arbors of pleasure, hang’d Rooms of pleasure, and beds of pleasures, where Gentlemen for their Money had their pleasure with us.
at lady of pleasure (n.) under lady, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 9: She is the Cook and the Meat dressing her self all day, to be tasted with the better appetite at night.
at meat, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 1: My Mrs, who had as fine a Trade as any one of her calling [...], this plaguy rout hath quite undone her [Ibid] 5: I see if thy Mrs. should turn thee away thou are able to set up Bawd for thyself.
at Mrs, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 2: It put us into such a Pocky fear, we begun all of us to smell like fish of three days catching.
at pocky, adj.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 7: I think I should stink so of my Pox that no body would indure me.
at pox, n.1
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 4: Oh! the Pump, the Pump, the very thought of a Pump put me in such a fine condition that I had need to have been to a Pump indeed to have made me sweet.
at pump, v.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue 7: I honor the Civet cat above all other. O it is a pretisus [i.e. precious] beast, for were it not for his sir reverence, I should have such a strong savor , that I suppose a Cobler would disdain to kiss me.
at sir-reverence, n.
[UK] ‘P.R.’ Whores Dialogue title: The Cheats, Abuses and Trapaning Trades which they drive; their ways to entice young Cullies.
at trapan, v.
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