Strange nevves from Bartholomew-Fair, or, the wandring-whore discovered her cabinet unlockt, her secrets laid open, vnvailed, and spread abroad in Whore and Bacon-lane, Duck-street and the garrison of Pye-corner. VVith the exact manner of conveighing St. Jameses Bawbyes to St Bartholomews-Fair, for the use of all the noble hectors. Trappans, pimps, dicks merry cullys aud [sic] mad-conceited lads of Great-Bedlam. Also the mad flights, merry-conceits tricks, whimsies and quillets used by the wandring-whore, her bawds, mobs, panders, pads and trulls for the drawing in of young hectors, with the manner of her traffick by morter-pieces, and new invented engines never discovered before. By Peter Aretine. Aretine, Peter. 1661 Approx. 11 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2005-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Prostitution -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. 2004-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2004-12 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-01 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2005-01 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion STRANGE NEVVES FROM Bartholomew-Fair , OR , THE Wandring-Whore DISCOVERED , Her Cabinet unlockt , her Secrets laid open , vnvailed , and spread abroad in Whore and Bacon-lane , Duck-stret , and the Garrison of Pye-Corner . VVith the exact manner of conveighing St. Jameses Bawbyes to St. Bartholmews-Fair , for the use of all the Noble Hectors ▪ Trappans , Pimps , Dicks merry Cullys and mad-conceited Lads of Great-Bedlam . Also the mad-slights , merry-conceits tricks , whimsies and quillets used by the Wandring-Whore , her Bawds , Mobs , Panders , Pads and Trulls for the drawing in of young Hectors , with the manner of her Traffick by Morter-pieces , and new invented Engines never discovered before . By PETER ARETINE . LONDON , Printed for Theodorus Mi 〈…〉 , 166● . A CONFERENCE BETWIXT The Wandring-whore , Bonny Besse of Whore and Bacon Lane , merry Moll of Duck street , and pretty Peg of Py-corner . Bonny Bette . WHat Newes now Merry Moll ? Is trading quick or dead ? Moll . As dead as a dore Nail , but whether away so fast Bette ? Bettee . To seek for imployment that I may be able to hold out a Winters siege . Moll . What is thy design , or how do you intend to go on with the work . Bette . I am just now going to see the dancing on the ropes ; for except I can draw out a Dick or two from thence , to view my rare agility of Body on the ground , with bending backward and forward , heaving , thrusting and other Recreation , I shall have little profit this Fair ; yet I know our tumbling exceeds their recreation as far as Gold doth the evacuation of a young Gentlewomans back Salliport ; but how trad'st thou Pegg ? Peg. Marry , I meet with merry Hectors , and trade with none but such as come on nobly ▪ fall on neatly ▪ and retreat gallantly ; they give me Py-cornor Law and Py-corner pay , and I am contented to the life . Moll . Well then , thou hast the quintissence of happiness , we enjoy no pleasure like thine , no nor profit neither ; for though we get by our Canns , we lose by Informers and such like varlets that steal away our profit , so that I am destitute of any thing but the P — and the praise , a common benefit to all the Female sex ; but I want the half-Crowns , through neglect of a Chuck-Office . Bette . Would I had thought of that before , I might then have borrow'd Jack-a-Newberrys six Wind-mills , they being hung out at my dore would have brought custom enough , but now I must lose a Hog for a half-penny-worth of Tar , for custome is so dull , there 's nothing to be got but by impudence , which I am well furnisht with , but dare not be too publick , lest like our dear sister Tory Rory , I be forc'd to beat out my living at the Hemp-block , or be transported as some of my brethren were yesterday . Yet hang sorrow , fear no colours , for they that want impudence , may be supply'd here with Kettles , Pans , Ladles , Skillets or Skimers , to rub their Faces on , whereby they may be as well brass'd as any Morter-piece that was in St. Jameses Fair ; therefore let 's venter a hazzard , all are not taken that use our profession ; but stay who comes here , the Wandring-whore ? I think 't is she , if not , my eyes grow dull , 't is shee faith , see how she spreads her sails , View but the Motto on her standard Moll , two rampant VVH — are turning up their Tayles . VVand . VVh — The very same in sooth , for I have wandred too and fro through the Fair , pickt up many a Dick and gull'd many a Cully of his Nab , tipt his bung , and sent his Callee to Egypt , but this is nothing to the high Trade I drive at home , when they come there , I spread my Colours , and receive the Spanish Rogue into my French quarters , where he turn'd the Pig so long till one of his best members was lost in the dripping-pan , yet the Jack-weights are secure and hang fast still , but this whelp of Scoggin complains of a losse I never was , or at least will be sensible of , which was by a pinch in the Pocket , but that I own not his which I my self have in possession . For when the Cole is gone , the simple Elf Is not the owner of it , but my self . Bette . But Sister , how drive you this Trade , to insert anothers account so neatly in the Almanack of your Pocket ? VVand . -VVh — By two long fingers made for that purpose , to dive into the Pockets of such Gulls , who after the receit of two or three Cups , forget the strength of their own Estates . Moll . That 's a pure strain , But how do you begin , or what means use you forr the enticing young Hectors into your Garrison ? VVand . -VV — To entice young punys . I lye as open as Noon-day , sit down at the dore , set one foot to the right , the other to the left , as far distant as I can spread my imperfect Limbs , and cry Lads : her 's a can of the best liquor in the fair , claping my hand on my market-place , and saying , here 's your Ware boys , which invitation with a wink , a smile and a chuck under the Chin , brings in the bonny Lads as easily as a hungry foul eats dry bread . Peg. And I for my part cry , here boys , here 's the best Pigs head in the Fair , a rare quarter of Lamb , pure Mutton , and the best buttock bief in England ; but how comes in your profit when they are in your Garrison ? Wandring-W — I spread my shrouds , vnvail my Cabinet ▪ disclose my secrets , and open the pure Linnen Curtains that hang before my chief Fortress , drink a Cann or two , smoak , sing old Rose , dance , and when the Gull is elivated , I Hull him asleep as Delilah did Sampson , and then turn Philistine , tip his Bung , and deprive him of the strength of his Estate , so he rises when he awakes as poor as Job , thinking he hath been in Heaven when indeed newly crept out of the Devils Vestry . marching off like a sencelesse piece of iniquity , not thinking of his losse till he comes into the Fair , to lay out his mony in Bawbles for his sweet-beart , it may be in Gloves , Ribbons , Rings , Beads , Bracelets or other such like Fancies , yet coming to pay , diving in his Pocket for Coal , he finds all as clear as a room new swept ; thus by my free entertainment , I free him from the sin of covetousnesse . Mol. And I in good sooth am as Common and free to my Customers , as a Cream-pot to a Dary maid , and that brings them in as fast as water runs through a scieve . They come in with their fowl Pipes , and I like an able Doctress cleanse them with a P — I clear the stem and also burn the bowle Till it 's as white as Pot-hooks or Char-coale . Peg. I but tell me , what dost thou do with a company of Varlets call'd Permoters , for I am more plagu'd with them then any other vermine whatever ? Mol. Marry Peg , in our Duck quarters , if they once appear , we know the Knaves so well , that we put them in an upper room , then borrow a quart pot , and fill that frothing full to blind them , whilest-we pinch the Cans of our Gulls to secure our own profit . For though by them our getting is but small The noble Hectors sure to pay for all . Mol. Come you are an old wandring Who — know all Postures , and turn up your tayl to all sorts of Culls , what do you for a contented Coxcomb to keep the dore , whilst you do excercise with your Hectors , by the Turks entring the Castle of Comfort ? Wand . -Wh — I tell the Moll , though my hvsband be a mere Mopus to a man of mettle , yet my Gusmond is a man able to defend me , and a pure Rogue that I dare trust with the Cabinet of Venus , with the Key to unlock it , and indeed with all my secreets ; Hee 'l Pimp purely for half a Crown a day besides his Vails , I and Trapan young Gallants too , whereby my Trade daily increases , Customers come in nimbly , and go out as merrily as thieves to Tiburn . So to the world my Hector young appears , when he comes out with nought but hanging Ears . Bess. I 'le tell thee Peg I thrive as well as any of them all , for a young Bump coming late to Bacon-Lane , full of Coale , my pretty Mob Nell with the wink of an eye drew him in to my Garrison , we two so smoakt him , after a collation of bread and Bacon , that by drinking , sporting-and-kissing the fool lost his purse , but how he knew not ; for the reckoning being suddainly brought in , his Quids were vanisht , his pocket saying No point Larshon , the pennyless puppy , supposing his Bung had bin tipt in the Fair before he came in , was forc'd to leave his Callee for the reckoning ; this Tuskin being a zealot was loath to tumult lest he should be discovered : therefore he durst not out-face us , whose impudence might well have startled a more able Hectors . Yet when the Bump was marcht off ; we sustained by his losse 5 pound advantage towards our house-rent , a few such Jobs at Lady-fair will find Puppy-dog-water for the refreshing our beautys till next Fair : besides silk-Gowns smock-petty-Coats and White-Aprons . Thus did this Gull for fear our secreets smoother Lest he should counted be a sinful Brother . We gave him leave to drink , to sport and play , Whilst we his Purse and Coal convey'd away . Peg. Sister Bette let 's away , break off our discourse and betake our selves to our heels , for here comes two pittiful fellows call'd Beadles , therefore our best way is to secure our own quarters . Bettee . Come be of good chear , but'let's not make more hast then good speed , go fare and softly , least jealousie cause suspicion , and they seize on us before our time , for these Blood-hounds will soon fcent enough by our discourse to put a stop to our further trading . For if our secrets should discover'd be We know the worst , a whipping sets us free . FINIS .