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A63248s.n.,[ London?
A41087CErtainly a Trip to Holland may be as grateful as one to Jamaica?
A41087What a Plague would he have, if what follows wo n''t please him?
A67499Or am I a Woman that can Gape so wide, as to swallow any such Windfalls?
A67499The First Volume of the LONDON- SPY?
A67528If such Old Stubborn Boughs can Bend, And from a just Chastisment mend, Fond Parents pray asign a Reason, Why Youth should want it in due Season?
A67529And why with two Balls?
A67529what a delicate sight had I seen?
A67520By chance, said I, What is''t a Clock I Pray?
A67520Poor Slime, thou art not Ale, for why?
A67520Suppose( said I) you''ve anger''d some Bravado, I hate the standing of a Bastinado?
A67520This Mortal prov''d a Midnight Magistrate, Who ask''s us, Why so dunk, and why so late?
A67509Sack- Possets, and the Fundamental Laws?
A67509Then Madam Nature wears black Patches too, What shall our Nation be in bondage thus Unto a Land that truckles under us?
A67509They are the Gospel''s Life- guard; but for them( The Garrison of New Jerusalem) What would the Brethren do?
A67523For your Encouragement, Gentlemen, I''ll put him up at two Shillings, advance 3 Pence; Two Shillings once: What no Body bid?
A67523What no Body amongst you Gentlemen of the Black Robe, that has so much respect for the Wisdom of our Ancestors, as to advance t''other 3d?
A67530To those I''ve wrong''d, what Measures shall I take, To own my Guilt, and Restitution make?
A67530Where am I going?
A67530Where''s my Physician?
A67530Will nothing help me in my painful Fits?
A67504All that is Sold at the Fair of use, are Shooes, Pattins, and Leather- Breeches; the rest are Horn- Toys, and Fools- Baubles?
A67504Lord, Sir, says the Chaplain, Why would you not imploy me?
A67504Whither are you going with my Husband?
A67514Pray set the Gentleman a Chair: What News, I pray, Good Sir, from London?
A67514What if they all were Fools, what then?
A67506Or if unlearn''d in Physick''s crabbed Laws, How the Distemper judge, or guess the Cause?
A67506Pray when, or how, became this Homage due?
A67506What has possess''d your Noddles with this Dream?
A67506Whence can you boast your Knowledge, lest you own, By study of your Files you''re Learned grown?
A67501From whence you raise that causeless discontent, Which makes you from my Temples thus Dissent?
A67501How Evil bred, T''approach God''s Presence with a Cover''d Head?
A67501How Insolent it looks?
A67501If I am Right, and from Mistakes most free, Why do they not Conform intire to me?
A67501If your dark System, they believe most True, Why not alone Communicate with you?
A67501Or why did the Creator shape the World From a dark Mass, together rudely hurl''d?
A67501Then tell me what strange Feavour in the Head, At first those Superstitious Frenzys bred?
A67501What avails its Grace, If our sincere Repentance wants access, Thro''Heav''ns respect to either Time, or Place?
A67501Where is its Goodness?
A67501Why may not mine as well assist the State, And in as great attempts, prove fortunate?
A67501Why must these Worldly Comforts rest in you; Or your Sons count all Pow''r and Place their due?
A67501Why not by Birth, and Christia ● Knowledge free To Riches, Honour, and Authoritie?
A67501Why so Disturb''d, so Scornful, and so High?
A67516And could you not content you self with being false to me, but also, must deceive my Sister, and ruine both our Fortunes?
A67516And is this the Effect of your mighty Passion, which so often you have invok''d the Sacred Deities to Witness?
A67516Are all the Solemn Oaths and Protestations, which so often you have sworn on your Knees, now Cancell''d, and so soon forgot?
A67516False, Ingrate, and Perjur''d Deluder, cry''d she, is it thus you reward me for all my Kindnesses, Extended to thee?
A67516How was I dismay''d, to find the third Sister there, and would not be denyed Entring?
A67516How, says he, Pray what do you do in the House, if my Tenant be march''d off with his Effects?
A67516I told him truly I could not tell, but believ''d they were gone with the People?
A67516Thou who art the Author of my lost Honour, and increasing Shame, art thou now pall''d by Enjoyment?
A67516What gain Have all thy Large heaps brought thee, since I spy Thee here alone, and poorer now then I?
A67518( A Lye so very gross like this, What Hearer would not take amiss?)
A67518But, Sir,( says one,) what kind of News is this?
A67518Nighbour, did you ever hear( Says one) so terrible a Wind?
A67518Tantúmne ab re tua otii est, aliena ut cures?
A67518— But, Sir, — But, Puppy, What do I come hither for, To spend my time in this dull smoaky Room?
A67518— — Sir, too far You stretch your Argument, for are We not as quiet in the present Reign, As those who stiffly Monarchy maintain?
A26532And what a Fool am I?
A26532At which a neighbour Frog admir''d, And kindly of the Cause enquir''d; Which when he knew, he said in haste, And Gossip, is this all at last?
A26532But stopping short a while, he cry''d, How fares it, Neighbour Hugh?
A26532Caught?
A26532Friend, quoth the Judge, how do you know Whether you are defam''d or no?
A26532Give out?
A26532How can you prove that he must mean You, rather than another Man?
A26532Of which the One to th''Other said, How came our Kindred all so mad?
A26532What confounded work is here?
A26532What will it signifie to me?
A26532quoth Roger, that were fine; Why, what have I been doing?
A26532quoth the Beast, what if I be?
A67510And who can tell it but the Favorite, whilst the poor Petitioner is debarr''d Access?
A67510And why should I be at the labour of Printing, or charge of Paper?
A67510He Christned his Son of the Iew''s Name, he did, what not?
A67510Pray, Sir, tell me, am I to Buy a Shop- full of Empty Pastboard- Boxes, or not?
A67510QVis Pauper?
A67510Refuse to take Ten Shillings in the Pound?
A67510To what purpose did you spend your time in Writing on such Subjects?
A67510WHat Title do you design to give this Book?
A67510What, that my Pains was Labour in Vain, and Charge signify''d Little or Nothing?
A67510What?
A67510Why then do you put over the Door, That the Goods Signify Little, or Nothing?
A71299By Lust and Pride, from Virtues Paths missed: What shameful shadows of my Guilt draw near?
A71299How Black and Monst''rous, do my Ills appear?
A71299How Lank my Breasts, how Nauseous is my Breath?
A71299Madam, said I, But when shall I obtain, A Sight of this sweet Miracle of Man; And do you think he Loves me?
A71299O where''s my only kind Physician, Death?
A71299Where are the Flatt''rers, that my Love pursu''d, And would have giv''n whole Worlds to do me good?
A71299whither am I stray''d?
A67513And if false Principles, why then Maintain, What now you hold so Dangerously Vain?
A67513From my old Friend, what Doctrine do I hear; In what strange Monstrous Shapes do you appear?
A67513How can You hope by Me to be Advanc''d, Since I my Self am thus Discountenanc''d?
A67513How can such High- flown Loyalty agree With Bounded Pow''r, and Native Libertie?
A67513How then can I( Reduc''d by their Designs) Promote Your Int''rest, when my Own Declines?
A67513If they, like Shuttle- cocks, Fly too and fro, How shall Mankind their Faith or Duty Know?
A67513If you Bear Wrongs, and may Prevent the same, Who but the Sufferers shall Deserve the Blame?
A67513Or if thro''Weakness, or Imprudence grown Too Tame, to do the Iustice of the Throne, How can the People rest on his Protection?
A67513To some known Rules why am I not Confin''d, Or why thus tost with ev''ry change of wind?
A67513WHAT black Decree of Over- ruling Fate, Ordains me thus Unfortunate of Late, Who once made Nations Happy, and their Princes Great?
A67513What Law can Hinder, or what Curb Restrain, The wild Ambition of a Vitious Man?
A67513What Rights or Freedoms can a Nation boast, But what may be by Sov''reign Pow''r ingrost?
A67500Are you his Register, so well you know The state of the Departed Souls below?
A67500But what need I say more, are not these think you very agreeable Converse?
A67500How hot you are?
A67500I''m glad I know you, High and Mighty Sir; Think you your pompous empty Name could stir My Choler?
A67500None knows in private what the Vinters do, But there''s some Roguery hatcht between you two, Those Sons of Bacchus else could never hold: Why?
A67500One may guess as much by thy Ember- week Complexion: You know I hate to press upon my Friends too much: What then will you Drink?
A67500Or what is your beloved Liquor?
A67500What Slave art thou, Impertinent and Rude, That dar''st upon my Privacies Intrude?
A67500What mighty Difference lies between us two?
A67500What think you now Will, who has got the better on''t?
A67500What, Angry Darby?
A67500Why?
A67500You Scoundrel Dog, am I not Nat''ralliz''d?
A67500Your Servant; Are you then that Mighty Sir, Who have so lately made so great a Stir?
A67500have they Disoblig''d you lately by drawing you bad Wine?
A67500— Prethee no more of that sober Discourse, but to the matter in hand; whither shall we go, to the George, or the Three- Tuns?
A67524After we had given each other the Time of the Day, Lord Sir, said she, are you but just up?
A67524But come, Fellow- Travellers, said he, will you please to take a Dram of Right Nants?
A67524But, Oh, how often are we Deceiv''d in our Expectations, and our hopes Frustrated by an All- Seeing Power?
A67524Have I disturb''d you Sir, said she?
A67524I find Sir, reply''d one of the Ladys, You have a great Aversion to London Education, and the very Thoughts of it gives you the Spleen?
A67524If Ladies, or Gentlemen?
A67524Oh Madam, cry''d I, how can you be so Cruel?
A67524Onely the extream Ardour of my Flame, my Dear, answer''d I; for who can behold the Tempting Tree, and forbear to pluck its luscious Fruit?
A67524Or how shall I express my self?
A67524Pray, what is the BATH for a Nursery?
A67524What then remains, cry''d I, my Life, my Soul, but to Quench our Desires, and delay our Bliss no longer?
A67524Ye Gods, cry''d I, what shall I say?
A67512Can the Walls of Prison frame, And prove the same Man is not now the same?
A67512Does History amuse his idle Hours?
A67512Gold first their Blindfold Reason led astray,( For who its Mighty Power can disobey?
A67512If Gold in Friendship can such Wonders shew, In Love, what strange amazing Things''t wil do?
A67512Is Verse the Subject?
A67512Mony what Wonders can it not effect?
A67512Play with her Hand upon his Grisly Chin, And softly say, my Dear where have you been?
A67512T is Virtue, Wit, and Worth, and all, That Men Divine, and Sacred call: For what is Worth in any thing, But so much Money as t''will bring?
A67512The Price of Beauty what Man does not know?
A67512WHat mighty Magick does the World betwitch, That all Mankind thus Covet to be Rich?
A67512What Mighty Magick is there in a Fee, To turn the very Scales of Equity?
A67512What a Pox do I care for a Monyless Fellow?
A67512Who ever faild that had it, of Respect?
A67512With Charming Guineas in the Ballance laid, What a poor Trifle is a Maidenhead?
A67512With wholesom Scraps a vig''rous health maintain, Rather than lye on Velvet Couch in pain?
A67512what Pen its Miracles can tell, Which Heaven purchases and saves from Hell?
A67531And is not the Copy of the Depositions made against you, inserted in the Frontispiece of my Ephemeris, as true as the Bible?
A67531And shall I stand to be Catechiz''d by a Countefeit Wizard, a Mob Fortune- teller?
A67531Did ever I accuse you falsely in my life?
A67531Did you ever hear such an insinuating old Star- groper?
A67531Did you ever hear, such an Impudent fellow as this, to disparage a Man of my knowledge to my Face?
A67531Did you not Calculate the Nativity of his Brother, and both Ignorantly and Maliciously foretel his Death to be Speedy, who is living to this day?
A67531Did you not at last turn her out of Doors, and take in her Room a hand- Maid, with whom you now Cohabit?
A67531Did you not at that time keep a Cutlers Shop in Newgate- street no bigger than a Butter- Firkin?
A67531Did you not fly into Holland to escape what you deserv''d?
A67531Did you not lock her up in your Garret a week together, and carry the Key in your Pocket?
A67531Did you not turn Quaker to get a Wife with three Hundred Pounds, and forsake the Religion as soon as you''d Married her?
A67531Did you not use her basely, to the shame of your self, and distraction of the Poor Woman?
A67531Did you not use to beat her, and whip her Immodestly with a huge Rod, to tame her of a Fura Matricis?
A67531Do you think I would tell a Lie for the matter?
A67531P — r. How Natural it is for an ill Man to suspect others to do that, of which himself is guilty?
A67531Were you not as poor as a Clapperdugeon, till the Fortune of your Wife redeem''d you from the Stings of Necessity, and danger of the Counter?
A67531Were you not guilty of a Conspiracy against King Charles, to Murder him at the Ryehouse, in order to pull down the Church and Subvert the Government?
A67531What say you now, Mr. P — r?
A67531Who amongst you all could predict Englands happiness, in the wonderful Revolution, but my self?
A67531Who could give the Nation the comfortable assurance of the speedy downfall of Popery and Slavery, but my self?
A67531should the Stars govern Mankind at no better a Rate, than you Astrologers govern your selves, what a disorder''d World should we have?
A67531what do you mistrust me?
A67511Besides, what''s more Scandalous than a Jayl?
A67511But alas, how fickle is Fortune?
A67511But as soon as we were down, our Hostess Conducted us into the Bar, asking us, What we would be pleas''d to Drink?
A67511But what said Simon?
A67511Come, no more of this; do''st not remember the Old Phrase in the Almanack?
A67511Cry''d I, What do I behold?
A67511Do you think I was born Yesterday?
A67511Doth this consist with Reason, when you can afford to take a Guniea for thirty five Shillings?
A67511Gentlemen, cry''d he, may I be so bold as to Crave your Names?
A67511Is not all this Evident proof?
A67511Is there not Youth, Vigorous Youth, to Exercise thy Power on, and dart thy Flames at?
A67511No, Sir,''t is call''d the Chappel- Ward, by reason the Chappel is on the same Floor; will you please to see it Gentlemen?
A67511Oh why do''st thou Tyrannize o''er Age; whose Strength''s decay''d, and Vigour''s spent?
A67511Or are my Opticks deceiv''d?
A67511Prethee, said I, what is she?
A67511Prithee, my Friend, answer''d he, why do''st thou Cautarize me thus?
A67511Upon which, I ask''d who it was that she was in Love with?
A67511Well then, said I, let''s see this Cave of Captivitie; and who knows but we may light on some old Rakish Acquaintance there, bury''d in oblivion?
A67511Well, Gentlemen, say''d our Friend, How do you like your Diversion?
A67511What the Devil do you mean?
A67511Why I find thou art the same in Confinement, as when at Liberty, cry''d I; Why, not said he?
A67511Will you be pleas''d to see it, Gentlemen?
A67511You must tell them so, that knows no better; what''s your Hot- Pots, your Stout, Brandy, Nick''d Measure, Tobacco, and double Scoring?
A67511ye Powers, cry''d he, What Venerable old Antiquary hath new Rigg''d Queen Bess?