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A80750	The crafty whore or, the mistery and iniquity of bawdy houses laid open, in a dialogue between two subtle bawds, wherein, as in a mirrour, our city-curtesans may see their soul-destroying art, and crafty devices, whereby they insnare and beguile youth, pourtraied to the life, by the pensell of one of their late, (but now penitent) captives, for the benefit of all, but especially the younger sort. Whereunto is added dehortations from lust drawn from the sad and lamentable consequences it produceth.		1658 (1658)	Wing C6780; Thomason E1927_1; ESTC R209987	51,817	130

Virgin yes saith our Landlady and one that is so pure and devout that all my businesse is to repeate Prayers all day and meditate with her whereupon he was so taken with me as that he earnestly desired to be admitted into so much favour as to speak with me But she said that could not be for the premises after alleag'd Wherefore he desired that she would intercede for him and so departed which accordingly she did For on a time when we are all three together she began to tell my Mother that there was a Gentleman both potent and rich that bore a very great effection for me who was able to raise the wheele of my fortune to the highest spoake therefore saith she I shall account it a principall signe of your wisedome and circumspection if you will make good use this your proffer'd good fortune in contributing some faire help to this his extraordinary affection It was not for nothing that this peice of serpentine craft pleaded so stifly having been before well greas'd in the fist and my Mother hoping for no less quickly condiscended The Gentleman being thus acquainted with his new happiness studied nothing more then how to prepare us a brave collation At which his whole discourse to my Mother was wholly concerning me beseeching her to permit him to visit me sometimes and that she would register him among the best of her friends My Mother seemed to consult with her selfe about this proposall a long time and knowing well enough what she had to doe consented upon conditions to his desires Now my young Gull thinking he had removed all obstacles a night or two after came to me thinking to have a nights lodging and so as a parative accosts me with protestations vows and oaths as if he intended to reward the losse of my Virginity with a Kingdome Thus did he wooe me that he might reape the fruit of his expences or rather that of my youth which he most desired Well I tould him that I should say nothing at that present without deliberation and therefore I appointed him an other night to meet me the time being come he fully assured of his desires came having before given order for a costly supper The Table being furnished with all sorts of rare viands we placed our selves but I bethought my selfe before how to behave my selfe at it I did eate very little meat and drank lesse wine unlesse it was tempered with water I complained sometimes that I had over-charged my stomack as a Lady did when she had eaten a pested of a lark at a great Feast having before well stuft her belly with good beefe and cabbidge Supper being ended the wine he drank began to sparkle in his veines and my beauty intoxicating his braines he could not forbeare his amorous imbracements wherefore that he might act his manly part with secrecy he led me to my bed-chamber and so inclosed us both in and presently in a trice disrobes himselfe so eager was his panting desire in pursuit of the injoyment of its end and so leapes into bed with an insulting and triumphant joy and presently after allures me with an innumerable company of enticements Protesting that I was the only person to whom he dedicated his affection and that there was no woman in the universe could be richer then his promises could make me But all these things were not available to get me to bed to him wherefore being impatient he leapes out of bed and offered to my view a thousand female alluring gestures which I must confesse the truth had almost overcome my craft and seeming chastity and then hug'd me and kist me but seeing all these things prevail'd nothing he sought to obtaine that by force which he could not obtaine by faire meanes wherefore findeing his summons so forcible I compounded on condition for bashfullnesse sake that he would turne his head to the wall whilest I disrol'd my selfe and then putting out the candle I came to bed to him but withall telling him that I could by no meanes yeild to commit sin or derogate from any Ancestors in loosing that long and safe preserved inestimable treasure He regarded little what I said his minde being Preoccupied in deeper affaires but incircled me straight way in his armes hugging me as the Ape her younglings yet for all this I held fast that prerogative which all Women have and may use in such incounters let them pretend what they please so that my Amorist was like an other Tantalus though he held me fast in his armes yet I would not let his trembling needle touch that Pole its point stood against with so much vigour Then he fell a flattering me calling me his soule the delight of his life the delightfull hope of his expiring soule and the soule of his future blisse suffer me saith he to injoy that I have so longed for let me not dye with thirst whilest I am so neer the Fountain with many the like expressions concluded with bitter sighs Ant. How hard was thy heart and how insensible wert thou certainly had I been in thy case I should have even melted at his discourse and gestures when I was young it was but strike and I presently took fire I was very free of my favours yet I think I lost not by it for besides money I had pleasure to boot Thais I could be content to be of your mind and make use of all proffer'd opportunities to satisfie and content my selfe but you must understand I was wiser at that time then the rest of our Sex for I preferd profit before that momentary delight well knowing that if he had satisfied his desires he would not have so much esteemed me and so have beene defective in paying me my promised reward wherefore I kept him off at a distance but it had like to have cost me deare For growing furious by my deniall and seeing himselfe frustrated of all meanes his breast swell'd into desperation and therefore changed those sweet and heart-melting expressions into bitter and horrid threats swearing withall that unlesse I would yeild and that quickly he would renounce his former affection and strangle me in the bed or stab me with his Ponnyard there ready for the purpose and presently to make good some part of his threats laid hold ou my throat with both his hands but feeling the softnesse of my body he was so overcome as that he that but even now breathed nothing but death forgets what he said and fell again to his inticements hopeing thereby to attain his ends desiring me with the full bent of his soul that I would consider his condition and put an end to his torments But seeing this would not doe he leaps out of bed and puts on his cloaths and so indeavour'd to be gone Now I being uncertain of what might follow I intreated him to return withall telling him that I was at his devotion and if he pleased he might consummate his felicity The foote returnes upon

be imploy'd in then by indeavouring to kill this hydra that hath kild so many or at leastwise discover to men its den that thereby they may not come neare it unlesse they will be guilty of selfe murther By this monster I mean all loose women but especially common Whores whom I advise you not to cheapen unlesse you intend your damnation to be the price not onely so but if you use their company they will likewise be your bodily undoing For as they are for the most part faire so are they witty and crafty out of all arts have they suck't the poyson of their craft so that it 's almost impossible to be undeceiv'd in their company I can speake this by experience as having been often cheatted in the rottennesse and deceitfullnesse of these female commodities and therefore I may the better be your pilot to keep you from splitting against their Seylla and Caribdis I may tell you that I have been as petulant as others and I have been heretofore so far from apposing that generally beloved thesis of injoying pleasure as that I rather studied how I might be an assector promotor of that doctrine but now experience hath reformed my judgement so that I can now look on a handsome woman with as little ardour as upon a well proportion'd statue which that you may so do shall be the continuall prayer of him who is Your Countryman A DIALOGUE Between ANTONIA And THAIS ANTONIA I would willingly heare by what meanes and for what ends your Mother and you first arriv'd at Rome THAIS Since fortune favours me with opportunity I shall be willing to satisfie your curiosity in this my Narration I need not tell you in what manner we came to this City since by the way there did nothing occur of moment therefore be pleased to understand that as soone as we came hither we inquired out what place in the City was most resorted to by Courtiers and young Gallants which as soone as we understood thither speedily did we repaire where we met with a Woman who got her living by letting of Lodgings with this Woman we found very good accomodation what was provided for our necessary food was neat and dainty as for the furniture of our Chamber it was both rich and eye-pleasing Here we continued eight days before which were expired our Landlady had sufficiently loud blowne the trumpet of my extraordinary beauty fit composure of body excellent be haviour and other rare both naturall and artificiall excellencies of soul and body with which I was indued but above all the rest she being almost blinded with the raise of my sparkling eye and rare symetry of my beautifull complexion I say she acquainted a Young Spark a great hunter of City beauties and delights how she lodged a Female Creature that might be tearmed the Master-piece of nature Presently upon this bare relation he acquaints others of his associates with this businesse and they their friends so that in a small time this disease being so catching and infectious there flocked a number of these Female-mongers before our Lodgings I presently smelling their designes and therefore kept my selfe extraordinary retired the more to inflame their appetites yet would I stand at the window at such a convenient place that I might see yet not be seen when I saw any young gull to gape and gaze very earnestly for a sight of me then would I put my head out of the Casement to spit downe not discovering to him above halfe my face but I would hastily catch in my head the more to deceive his eye-sight and cause him to conceive the more of my honest chastity so that by this craft I appeared to be more virtuous and beautifull For the eye being hindred from what it eagerly desires to see kindles in the affections a fierce indeavour to satisfie themselves in the pursuit of their injoyment By this time there were few of Love's Champions which had not notice of me in so much that our House was almost filled with amorous Visitants our Landlady in the meane while made her benefit on this occasion for they sufficiently greaz'd her fist to mediate for them Now did my Mother begin to bestir her stumps and being she was a Woman sufficiently tutored and experienced in Pandarisme her long exercise in that noble art made her a perfect Crafts-Mistresse wherefore she would pretend sometimes that suspition would not suffer her to admit of such variety of Company and that she much feared in time that it might pervert the chaste minde of her onely Daughter and then would she break out into these expressions Is it possible for me a staid Matron to be led away with faire speeches which may prove the ruine of my Daughters chastity and the dishonour of our antient Family God forbid that I should permit any thing that might be the cause of contaminating her hither to immaculated flower of Virginity whereas God knows it was long since that I could not be at rest till I had tryed and tasted of the sweet pleasures of concupiscence I have many times heard and I accordingly did put it in practice that in love affaires we must make hay while the Sun shines or whilest fortune favours I accounted it a matter of discretion to use that to day which I knew not whither it might be offred me to morrow As soone as vigorous nature had provokt me to surrender up my Virgin for t I was willing for scare of displeasing her to let it be taken at the first assault For I was very sensible that my Virgin-bud now disclosing it selfe delay would but blow it wider the longer it was suffered to grow the sooner it would fade wherefore these things and many other after I had duly considered on I thought on no better way then in my frequent wanton motion to sympathize with the Heavens in its continuall agitation Well my Mother if she thought any of these Gallants were neere enough to heare her would continue expostulating with her selfe what shall I regard either their faire speeches or quality No honesty shall be more prevalent with me Besides are we not discended of a noble Progeny And are we not so sufficiently in fortunes favour as not to be destitute of that of which we may lead an honest life Many other such expressions did she use which did make a wonderfull addition both to my beauty honesty and nobility My Lovers being thus captivated by the real and imaginary splendor of my perfections continue still their congregations before my lodgings every one had the hopes to crop the chiefe flower of my Garden At last I could not resist the motions of my mind but would sometimes stand at the window and seeme to take wonderful delight in those that I thought were most rich and wealthy as for other Reck shares as a brave presence gallantry of habit or a nice and quaint gate who foot it so to a tittle that it seems their senses

Now seeing a convenient time I sent for all my friends and lovers and after I had lookt very sadly on each particularly I craved all their pardons in generall for the sins of my youth I had committed with them devoutly casting up my eyes to Heaven I invoaked pardon from thence after which I spake after this manner to them with weeping eyes I now am resolved my quondam deare friends to bid you and the World good night hoping to bid you all in Heaven good morrow My conscience having been wrought upon by the commemoration of Christ's sufferings inforced me to leave these soul-destroying sins of the flesh and betake my selfe to a holy life and this upon very good grounds if you consider that if we live not well here we shall never injoy happinesse hereafter Nay if we do consider and think on it yet if we indeavour not to obtain it his salvation is hopelesse Therefore whilest I live here I will so behave my selfe that I may not doubt of salvation horeafter I have learnt that by my contemning of riches I shall be rich by contemning of glory injuries rest and earth I shall be made glorious and a conquerour I shall gaine rest and finde Heaven and then in a rapture I pronounc'd these Verses Rouze up my soule and let not lustfull fires Take of thy thoughts from Heavenly desires Sore up aloft and let the Earth seeme unto thee But as black spot of iniquitie Now I 'me resolv'd to cloyster up my selfe From riches pleasures and all Earthly pelfe Then did I tell them by what meanes I commenc't convert which was by reading the story of Mary Magdalene And to conclude I told them that I was resolv'd to doe and suffer any thing in this life to be exempted from those everlasting burnings of Hell fire in the life to come Thus did I preach at least an hour to them at which some were grieved for the losse of my presence others were grieved because they could not seem so virtuous and good as I. The time being come that I must go to the Monastry all my friends accompanied me thither And by the way some would praise God that he had call'd me to a better life others that God had given me the grace to forsake worldly pleasures in my youth and flower of my age I observ'd one as I went to covet to be as neare me as possible and who seem'd to be more sorrowfull then the rest wherefore as I thought I had begun a conquest so I would finish it on him Therefore just as I was going into the Gate of the Monastry I turn'd about my head and looking upon him with a stedfast and peirceing eye enough to have moved a stone I did shed some teares The eye Sister is Cupids Armory wherein he stores up his shafts and standing there oftentimes as a sentinell seldome lets an amorous heart escape his darts My new Lover thought from this action that those teares were dropt for his sake every one is apt to construe a thing according as he would have it and from that time plotted how he might draw me from that retired life I had not been long there but he visited me at the grate and that very often At length being not able to hold in his minde any longer he declared his intent to me urging all the perswasions that I ye in the tongue of Man to draw me out of that place But I seemin to be outragious askt him whither the Divle ahd sent him as his agent to corrupt chaste intentions At this tart answer he was quite dasht out of countenance and so departed But as I understood after all the way he went he did admire at my so suddain reformation and that seeing me so strickt he really thought now I had absolutely banisht dissolute thoughts and now he thought I might make a very virtuous wife Therefore the next time that he came to me he desired to be excused if he had given me any cause of discontent and in briefe told me that if I would leave that place and be as willing as he was to live a married life the consummarion of it should be between us in a very short time After a little pause on the businesse and some reasonings between us I consented to his desires and indeed the sooner because I was extreame weary of that kind of life and so leaving my devotion I married this Man wealthy enough Ant. I believe that proverb was continuall in thy minde that sayes he knows not to live that knows not to dissemble Thais Dissimulation is the chiefe practique part of my life and therefore blame me not if I know how to be pleasing to the eye though intricate to the understanding and be not what I seeme to appeare but my countenance shall be sure to be framed according to the present disposition so that by different mens humours I may weave a net for occasion Much of this feminine policy did I make use of to winde my selfe into this married condition I then was in Then had I an other part to act to wit a sober discreet and modest wife to my husband not mattering whether I seemed so to others of my familiars Now must you consider me as a stately dame under a conjugall tye attended on by my Gentleman Vsher and waiting Gentlewoman lodg'd and seated in a most stately and well built house in which you may be confident I would want nothing as long as there was any money to pay for it My cheifest businesse was how I might weare the breeches and then it would prove no difficult matter to commence Scholar both to Epicurus and Aristippus I was of their opinion that held pleasure to be the Sumum bonum at least a womans chiefe happinesse which I resolv'd to injoy though my body and soule paid for it My imployment was to drinke rich and fragrant Wine to eate choice victuals both at Ceres and Venus tables At which I imitated not the behaviour of some nice finnekin City dames that will not speake a broad word much lesse eate with a good appetite but let us excuse them in private When they are at a plentifull dinner they will eate and drinke very little for good manners sake forsooth As for me I imploy'd all the industry I had to live merrily and jovially and thought that little enopugh too not valewing what people said Ant. But how did'st thou get money to feed and maintaine those varieties of pleasures thou did'st injoy Thais If I found my husband to be in an Ill thrifty humour and so would not allow me what I desired I would harken to some young gallants sollicitations and so dresine my pleasure through my husbands hornes thus you see he got nothing but a cornuting for his avarice Ant. But did he not suspect this wanton carriage Thais No for when I had beene abroad exalting his horne then would I when I come home cling about his neck speaking

those rich cloaths he wore to be the more respected by us I cannot tell justly but sure I am they had another owner before he departed Being in bed whilest he laysolacing himself with kisses c. so in came our Hector who personated the Lord whom we feigned to love my Daughter and I 'le say this for him he acted a man of that quality to the life Now was Monsieur in a fad quaking fit not knowing what to do at length he bethought himselfe to rise and put on his cloaths and so steale down the stares incognito for our titular Lord took no notice of any that was in bed but did often knock up for us to know where his Mistresse was and why she came not to him But Monsieur was in a far sadder case when he could not find his cloaths and no wonder for we had layed them up safe before He was slipt out of bed but what with feare and what with the cold his teeth did beate alarum in his head insomuch that it caus'd may Lord to withdraw the curtaines and by the light of the Candle discovered his Ape-ship Monsieur Amoreux indeavouring to hide himselfe behinde the hangings whereat he seem'd to be in a furious rage damming and sinking him was the onely rhetorick us'd and then drawing his sword swore he would be the death first of this inconstant and lustfull quean and afterward he should take leasure to torture that Rogue which had thus stain'd his honour whil'st he was thus swaggering Monsieur took the opportunity to flye for it and comming to the staires head thinking this Antagonist was at his heeles made but one step from the top to the bottome and so ran to his lodging in his shirt which was a long street to it and at the heeles of him followed a whole regiment of boys which left him not till he came to his lodging What with this disgrace and what by reason of his poverty I understood he left Rome to trye if he could finde better fortune elsewhere Thus have I faithfully related to you the most memorable passages of my life and it was for this purpose I came this day unto your house and withall to tell you my resolution which is absolutely to abandon all these kind of vitious courses I have here related you which though they seeme to please at first will assuredly at last either put an end to his estate or life As you in part see by this last rehearsed story of Mounsieur who being beguiled by the false charmes of illicite pleasures injoyed not the happinesse he had promised his hurtfull thoughts but was reduced both to Shame and Poverty who may serve as a patterne to all those that delight in such pernitious and dissolute courses and thereby may see that they are in the way of hell and damnation if they doe not speedily step into the path of a righteous and holy life and conversation As for my owne part I am heartily sorry that I have thus spent that time which should have beene imployed and dedicated to divine worship in Idlenesse Wantonnesse Riot in perverting others and in destroying my owne soule Wherefore now I intend to spend the residue of my life in some remote Cell or Hermitage where my heretofore bewitching haires shall be my sole napkins to wipe those teares of mine eyes with true repentance for my sins shall extract from thence my lustfull deceitfull crimes will I number by my ●ighs and groanes and finally fasting shall be to me instead of my former feasting and so farewell Ant. I like this well But stay I 'le with thee goe and trie If I can so well live so dye FINIS A Dehortation from Lust drawne from the sad and lamentable consequences it produceth MY intent by this Postscript is to teach the Reader how he may imitate the Egyptian Nicetas by sailing by the Scylla of carnall pleasure and the Caribdis of incontinency and yet not indanger the shipwrack of his chastity How he may safely drink out of Circes cup and yet be not metamorphosed into a Swine How he may come among the Lotophagi and yet tarry not with them How he may heare the Syrens sweet and harmonions voices and yet be not inchanted by them Now should I allege all that might be said against this lustfull vice to make you abhor it this small Treatise would swell into Volumes wherefore let your daily experience and observation by the Pilot to steere your course or do but consider the miseries that lust hath brought on Men and perhaps it may teach you to be wise by other Mens harmes Yet mistake me not I would not have you so severe against your selves in striving to be continent as to imitate some that have castrated themselves others that have blinded themselves because they would not behold inticing beauties or to be so foolishly nice as Xenocrates was who if he saw a beast in copulation would flye as fast from the place as if the Divell was there or to be as Scipio was that married a most beautifull and faire Virgin and immediately after the celebration of the nuptials sent her home to her friends without the injoying the least fruit of wedlock this he did purposely to trye how great a conquerour be could be over his concupiscence or lastly to doe as Spurina did who deform'd her well form'd face that thereby she might not be the cause of lustfull defires in any There are far easier things that I shall prescribe you for the bridling of this sinfull passion And to be breife take them in these two verses Otia mensa libri vaga lumina verba sodales Haec tolle hanc minue hos muta haec claude haec fuge vita hos In the first place otia tolle be not idle for that 's the fittest season the Divell hath to perswade thee to all wickednesse but especially to lust which is the Spring and Fountain of all mischiefe and the Mother of most vices And therefore in some respect it were not amisse if Draco's law was in force among us that held sloath a capitall crime For to be sure that Man qui nihil agit which doth nothing may be truly said male agere to do ill It 's a thing equally certaine that he that is idle is likewise unchaste Wherefore to conclude Otia si tollas periêre Cupidinis arcus Contempiaeque jacent et sine luce faces Shun sloath and Cupids bow thou'lt break And 's torch contemn'd will shine but weak Next mensam minue that is pamper not too much thy body with delicates For nunquam fames adulteria genuit Adultery was never the Daughter of temperancy Chastity lives more secure in low Cottages then in sublime Pallaces And as that Trumpet blowes lowder when most full of breath so that body boyles most in lust that 's most inflam'd with wine dainties c. Wherefore if thou ever intendest to get the victory over thy lust strive to get the conquest

over thy belly In the next place beware of lascivious Books as Romances Drolling Satyres wanton Poems c. which are too too common in all Languages which serve for little else then to infuse into the Readers minde at least evill thoughts if not impure words and actions Ovid that grand Crafts-master in amorous matters adviseth you Teneros ne tange Poetas And yet School-masters to their greater shame stick not to teach publickly his art of loving or more properly his art of Bawdry as also Martiall Catullus Tibullus Propertius which no doubt is a great cause of corrupting youth Wherefore I think it would not be amisse for you to say with the Poet of old Ite mali versus animam qui perditis ite Fourthly vaga lumina claude Sometimes lust creeps into the soule through a kisse or through the eares but cheifly through the eyes Hence proceeded that law of Zeleucus that punnished adultery by the losse of the eyes as being the principall cause of that sinfull act Vritque videndo Lastly fuge sodales I meane onely bad companions He that continually wallows with Swine in the mire must expect to be in the same filthy condition The Plague cannot be more infectious then ill manners For example is ever more prevalent with mankind then precept One scabed Sheep will infect a whole flock Sicut grex totus in agris Vnius scabie cadit Therefore it 's the best way for him that is not ingag'd with ill companions to be very wary of them Hic niger est hunc tu Romane cavaeto If he is let him disingage with all expedition least use make a habit and a habit turne to a second nature They cannot hurt thy body so much by forsaking them as they would thy soule by accompanying them Be of that minde that Apollonius Thyanaeus was in when he desired ●he Gods that they would give him such a discerning minde as nosse bonos malos vitare to know the good and shun the bad Had I had which I wish you may have that admirable faculty I might not perhaps now have been reduced to this deplorable condition I now am in either to make my selfe an exile or be impal'd and mew'd up betweene two walls for ever I can charge this on none but such ill company I kept that brought me to all vitious and irregular courses As soone as I had let loose the reines of my will to their pleasue-promising allurements I soone suckt in the poison of their ill conditions and so learnt of them to be as export as the best of them in the perpetration petration of all manner of wickednesse and debauchments But I hope what I have said may be enough to keepe you of from my extravagancies that thereby you may serenely and peaceably injoy your estates lives and liberties O herwise let me tell you if you will not make other Men your example you your selfe shall be made an example to others I feare me I have made too large a digression wherefore to returne to my intended discourse to dehort you from all lustfull actions let me put you in minde of some few tragicall examples as just judgments of God against such that have accounted pleasure their cheife happiness and venereall delights the Elizium of their desires The World is full of such Histories but I shall insert none but what are of mine owne observation About some ten yeares since as I was in the west of England there fell out this mournfull tragedy occasioned by lust There was a young Gentleman whose name I shall forbeare to register though I do his crime who as long as he could keep out wanton thoughts from infecting his minde imbraced Bellona instead of Venus and thought it more honour to erect trophees of Gunnes and Swords to Mars then to offer up Virginities on the Altars of Venus But she being displeas'd at this sent a fair young Gentlewoman to him that soone converted his noble thoughts into an ignoble amorous passion Exitus acta probat In a short time giving way to it this thing called love or lust so prevailed with him that he became as stout and as hot a venereall Souldier as he was before a Martiall one And now to appease that Goddesse whome before he had offended he offered up every yeare at least an Hecatomb of Maiden-heads to her Among the rest he hapned on a meane beauty but such was his raging lust as he could not rest quiet till he had erected the banner of his pleasure on the tombe of this Gentlewomans honour Having often times injoy'd his desire with her but he at length grew weary of tasting one sort of meat and so forsooke this that he might please his sensuall appetite with another At which she was so inrag'd as that she vow'd revenge Thus you see one sin very often goes accompanied with many others This Gentlewoman resolved if she could not her selfe another should not be the Mistresse of his affections for thus she brought it about she feined her selfe very sick and sent him a messenger to desire him to come and see her before she should bid good night to this world having matters of great importance to reveale him Being come and thinking no harme stoop't downe to the bed to heare what she had to say but she with a dagger which she had on purpose with her immediatly stab'd him to the heart for which murder she was publickly executed Thus you see how just God is in punishing him for lust though not for murther but for her being guilty of both the last being the cause of the former Being in Spaine and seeing a great number of people flock after a very beautifull Gentlewoman I inquired what it meant they told me that that Gentlewoman was going to be hanged wherefore being very inquisitive to know for what cause I understood it by one that had some relation to her which I shall here relate you in briefe In Madrid there dwelt a Gentlewoman named Nimphidia who by reason of her birth wealth and beauty was very much courted by most of the gallants of that City But the coynesse of her humour none could vanquish but solely Gerhardo a noble and compleate Cavalier they both so simpathiz'd in affections as that they seem'd to have but one soule and sometimes but one body It was not long before he had compleated his illicite desires And now all obstacles being remov'd they never are at rest but when they injoy'd each others mutuall society which ended commonly in lascivious imbraces which in the end you shall see shall cost them the price of both their lives About this time there was one Velasquez who seeing her at Church was extreamely captivated by her in so much that nothing would content him till he had revealed his affections to Nimphidia which having done she at first seem'd very indifferent but after she had seriously paralel'd her two Lovers and finding something more excellent in Velasquez than in Gerhardo