The Whores and Bawds Answer to the Fifteen Comforts of Whoring | Page 8

ever want;?To you your Lover sends; but blushing Shame,?In silence bids my Paper hide my Name.?Witness what Pains (for you alone can know)?Poor helpless I do bear and undergo;?A thousand Racks and Martyrdoms, and more?Than a weak Virgin can be thought, I bore:?You rule alone my Arbitrary Fate,?And Life and on your disposal wait.?How little more remains for me to crave!?How little more for you to give! O save?A wretched Maid undone by Love and you,?Who does in Tears and dying Accents sue;?Who bleeds that Passion she had ne'er reveal'd,?If not by Love, Almighty Love compell'd:_?No ever let her mournful Tomb complain,?Here _Phillis_, kill'd by your cold Disdain;?And to her Honour let it e'er be said,?She dy'd a faithful Lover, yet a Maid.
_The Thirteenth P----._
Blessed with Beauty, Money, Youth and Wit,?I'm daily plagu'd with some Penurious Cit,?But e'er I will to such be forc'd to yield,?To a Man of Sense I Will resign the Field,?For Men of Breeding more of Love can show,?Than dull Mechanicks e'er can learn or know.
_The Fourteenth P----._
A Maid can scarce into a Service get,?But Prentice Boys (void both of Sense and Wit)?Will lead the Servant such a tedious Life,?To Change the Name of Maid to that of Wife,?That she, to shun their solid Impudence,?Must leave her Service in her own Defence.
_Fifteenth P----._
What spiteful Star, when I was Born did Rule,?That I'm thus teazed with a whining Fool,?Which is the very worst of Fools; for he,?Got in a Stran of dull Simplicity,?Crys, _Agdes!_ See my looks, my wishing Eyes,?My melting Tears and hear my begging Sighs;?About your Neck I could have flung my Arms,?And been all over Love, all over Charms;?Grasp and hang on your K----, and there have dy'd, There breath my gasping Soul out tho' deny'd.?My earnest Suits shall never give you rest,?While Life and Love more durable shall last;?Alive I'll Pray, 'till Breath in Pray'rs be lost, And after come a kind beseeching Ghost.?He thought these soft Expressions soon might move My Heart, which was bequeath'd before to Love,?No, no, these whiedling Fops I really hate,?And since I am resolv'd to change my State,?A Man of Wit and Sense I do adore,?To him I grant my Favours and my Store,?As certain Wedlock with so good a Choice,?May make my Judgment, whilst I live rejoice.
_FINIS._
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