Your Conventicling Miracles out-do All that the Whore of Babylon e'er knew: By wondrous art you make Rogues honest Men, And when you please transform 'em Rogues again.

Ay, Sir, 'tis a Revenge fit only for a Whore to takeAnd the Affront you receiv'd to Night, was by mistake.

As early as 1678 'Crack' is the proper name of a whore in Tunbridge Wells, an anonymous comedy played at the Duke's House, cf.

Yes, and I wish to have you know, I scorn to get a whore for any prince alive, and yet scorn will not help methinks: my Daughter might have been spar'd, there were enow besides.

I know you will recant and sue to me, but save that labour: I'le rather love a fever and continual thirst, rather contract my youth to drink and sacerdote upon quarrels, or take a drawn whore from an Hospital, that time, diseases, and Mercury had eaten, than to be drawn to love you.

Shame light on thee, How came this whore into thy head? Lieu.

I think he is the one who waylaid Pertinax the other day and spoke strange stuff about a whore on seven hills whose days are numbered.

You who are such a liar and thief and whore with words!

Neros, Domitians, Heliogables, beastly women, and arrant whores amongst the rest.

He runs a-whoring after another man's inventions, for he has none of his own to tempt him to an incontinent thought, and begets a kind of mongrel breed that never comes to good.

Or that they care little for their own ladies, and fear no laws, they dare freely keep whores at their wives' noses.

"The lascivious prefers his whore before his life, or good estate; an angry man his revenge: a parasite his gut; ambitious, honours; covetous, wealth; a thief his booty; a soldier his spoil; we abhor diseases, and yet we pull them upon us."

had you left in France Your whore behind you, in your Table bookes You would have sett downe the streets very name,