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Magdalene College - Pepys
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THE
FEMALE DOCTRESS
OR,
Mother Midnights Cure
FOR
Barrenness in Women,
BEING
A True Relation of a Woman that pretended to Cure Womeo
of Barrenness; Especially in the Mint in Southwark.
Licensed according to Order.
Tune, In Cold Nights when Winter's Frozen.


[I]

ALL you Ladies that are Barren,
If Old-age ben't crept too far on;
In a Month or two it may be,
You may if willing conceive with Baby:
Take but the Measures which I shall here give you,
I have Rare Medicines will nee'r deceive you,
For I have studdy'd Copulation.
Above this Sixty Years in this Nation.

[2]

Young brisk Wives who ne'er have Lain-in,
Who of Wedlock are Complaining,
And at Christ'nings tell your Neighbour,
How sparing your Spouse is of his Labour:
Let it proceed from what Causes soever,
Suffer me but to use my Endeavor;
Take a Dose of my Elixir,
And I am certain, 'twill do the Trick Sir.

[3]

You in your Neighbours Houses,
Swear the Fault to be your Spouses,
If too weak well make him stronger,
If he's too short we'll make him longer:
Let him o[?] serve the Directions I'll give him,
Of all Impediments I'll relieve him,
To a Shilling I'll hold Twenty,
Next merry Bout he does content ye.


[4]

If your Husband's Old and Crazy,
Or if Young, and grown too lazy,
I'll renew their Strength or Beauty,
And make them able to do their Duty[;]
Of their forbearance I quickly would ease you,
They ev'ry Night should take pains to please you:
My Receipt should I but show it,
You would be satisfied I could do it.

[5]

Ladies who in Youth are Wedded,
And in Innocence are Bedded;
I'll soon teach you if Occasion,
To do the Business with Discretion,
You at the End of Three Quarters Teem-all,
With what will please you best, Male or Female,
Take but my Elixir fairly,
You shall do Trick a Track most rarely.

[6]

Barren Wives let me beseech you;
If you want or covet Issue,
Make to me your Application,
I'll assist you in Procreation,
Im to be Head of, at Sign of the Stallion,
Closely embracing his dear Mag-Mallion,
Lest that these Directions fail you,
In the Mint they'd better tell you.


Printed by J. Wilkins, in White-Friers

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