A cunning quean, a very cunning quean, Go to your business, Block; I'll meet with her. BLO.

For virtue cared not a farden: There never was seen Such a drabbish quean In the parish of Covent Garden.

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, Now to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty: Let the toast pass, Drink to the lass I warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.

They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!

"Thou talkest like a foolish quean that has been frightened by the fluttering of her own poultry.

The companion of his travels is some foul sun-burnt quean, that, since the terrible statute, recanted gipseyism and is turned pedlaress.

And a jealous, slandering, spiteful quean she is, One that would blur my reputation With her opprobrious malice, if she could; She wrongs her husband, to abuse my fame: 'Tis known that I have lived in honest name All my lifetime, and been your right true wife.

Amongst the Babylonians, it was the custom of some lascivious queans to dance frisking in that fashion, saith Curtius lib. 5. and Sardus de mor.

I replied again, I knew not the house; but I perceived, on a sudden, by the naked queans, that I was now come into a bawdy-house, and then too late I began to curse the treachery of this old jade."

[5706]what I am without, but within, God knows, a puddle of iniquity, a sink of sin, a pocky quean."

Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age, and was but fifteen when she hid the spies, as Hugh Broughton proves, to whom Serrarius the Jesuit, quaest.

And a jealous, slandering, spiteful quean she is, One that would blur my reputation With her opprobrious malice, if she could; She wrongs her husband, to abuse my fame: 'Tis known that I have lived in honest name All my lifetime, and been your right true wife.

She slanders me; she is a cozening quean.

For the bride was a stout household quean; her face painted with vermilion, and her person arrayed in uncouth embroidered garments.