A most notorious Strumpet.

Hold, mighty Emperor; as I hope to be saved, 'tis but a copy of her Countenanceinhuman Wifelead her to your Apartment, Sir! barbarous honest Woman,to your Chamber, Sir,wou'd I had married thee an errant Strumpet; nay, to your Royal Bed, Sir, I'll warrant you she gives you taunt for taunt: try her, Sir, try her.

And though my woman's strength bend like a reed Before the flowing of Affliction's river, Not, not for shame, nor for one strumpet deed Doth this weak frame bow down, or faintly quiver, As I stand forth alone in deadly need.

Mistresse flurt, you mean, Foule strumpet, light a loue, short heeles!

'Why, yes, Sir, the most licentious man, were hell open before him, would not take the most beautiful strumpet to his arms.

Be out-brav'd by a seducing Strumpet? King.

Binde the coy strumpet; she dyes, too.

Shee's my Queene And wife, yet but my strumpet, tho the Church Set on the seale of Mariage: good Onaelia, Neece to our Lord high Constable of Spaine, Was precontracted mine. Card.

Away, bold strumpet.

y'are idle:till they ha forc'd him To cancell his late lawlesse bond he seal'd At the high Altar to his Florentine Strumpet,

This Linstocke gives you fire: shall then that strumpet And bastard breathe quicke vengeance in my face, Making my kingdome reele, my subjects stagger In their obedience, and yet live?

The only difference is, that Osberne and some others call her his strumpet, not his wife, as she is said to be by Malmesbury.

But this difference is easily reconciled; for if Edwy married her contrary to the canons, the monks would be sure to deny her to be his wife, and would insist that she could be nothing but his strumpet; to that, on the whole, we may esteem this representation of the matter as certain, at least, as by far the most probable.

Out, out, thou Strumpet-Fortune, all you Gods, In generall Synod take away her power: Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele, [Sidenote: follies]

She was an animal, a female centaur, a wanton and a strumpet, as all negresses are wantons and strumpets.

For Peter to marry a nigger and a strumpet, for him to elope with a wanton and a thief!

Harry will be suspecting that I am your latest strumpet.

She's, then, a villanous strumpet so to write, And you an asse, a coxcomb to beleeve it.

for your deliverance from a strumpet? Bon.

I am the more confirmed in this Opinion from my having received several Letters, wherein I am censur'd for having prostituted Learning to the Embraces of the Vulgar, and made her, as one of my Correspondents phrases it, a common Strumpet: I am charged by another with laying open the Arcana, or Secrets of Prudence, to the Eyes of every Reader.

I leaned and loitered a long time on the bridge, gazing up to the craggy height, which is heavy with waving wood, and crowned by the Castle-tower, the Tees sweeping round the mountain-base, smooth here and sunlit, but a mile down, where I wished to go, but would not, brawling bedraggled and lacerated, like a sweet strumpet, all shallow among rocks under reaches of shadowthe shadow of Rokeby Woods.

Do you think, strumpet; that you shall get the better of me by sheer impudence?

This, joined to a reflection, which he makes as he returns to Aristophanes, shows that Aristophanes continued a long time to display his powers: for his poetry, says Plutarch, is a strumpet that affects sometimes the airs of a prude, but whose impudence cannot be forgiven by the people, and whose affected modesty is despised by men of decency.

The strumpet sea.

The strumpet sea.