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The loving Chamber-Maid.
Or, Vindication of a departed Maidenhead.
Being the Art to lye with a Man and yet be a Virgin. To a New Tune
Maidens----but Ah what is a maid I pray
An infant Female that scarce views the day,
For ere the things we Virgins call aspire
To 13 years, they feel a strange desire:
Longing for what themselves can scarcely tell,
Which strange desire of make their bellies swell
And then what tis theyknowtoo fatal well.

SHut the door after me,
pull off the Boule,
Ile blow in the Candle
the best of you all,
And all the World
shall ner me perswade,
But that Im a maid,
Ay a very good maid.

I ner lay with any
unless it were one,
And yet I dare venture
or look at the Sun,
And all the world etc.

I had but one small one,
what am I the worse
I ner gave it Suck
but I put it to Nurse,
And all the world etc.

Perhaps twas my Master
that got it, what then?
My Mistriss ner knew ont
nor none of our men,
And all the world
shall ner me perswade,
But that Im a maid
Ay a very good maid.

For I can pass currant
and sell it again,
To some Fopp oth City
who ner yet was in,
And all the world

Although my Maidenhead
sporting took flight,
With heaving and thrusting
I bid it good night,
Yea all the world

And if I be clapd too
then what of all that,
Some Country Clown
will be baiting his Cat.
And all the world

Tis a known Maxime
from Ages long trackd,
A Chamber-Maids simple
unless she be crackd.
Then all the world

For she is not fitting
good counsel to keep,
When Light-heels her Mistress
with Gallants does sleep,
Then all the world

Tho I shoud my Mothers
black Legacy pawn,
To some doating Broker
for rigging of Lawn.
Yet all the world

For tho the old doatard
should flutter a while
He could not the fashion
of Margery spoyl.
Then all the world

Nay tho I shoud deal
with a blade of the Town

A Squire to Venus
should tumble me down.
And tho he long struggld
yet none should perswade
But that Im etc.

For shes a mean Strumpet
that knows not the tricks,
To try with one Maiden-heads
dozens of ------
Then all the World
shall ner me perswade,
But that etc.

The famous Matronas
of Whetstone will tell
That they can a Maiden-head
sixty times sell,
Then all the world

When Cook-maids by Prentices
oft are beguild
And packd in the Countrey
when pregnant with child.
And after delivery
none them perswades
But that they are maidens,
pass currant for maids.

Once having a smatch
to trading they fall,
Set up with a Maiden-head
common to all.
And keep open Warehouse,
then none shall perswade, etc.

Thers none above fifteen
but if theyr put tot,
Although they deny you
will willingly dot.
Therefore no Gallant
shall ere me perswade,
but that as maids go
Im a very good maid.


Printed for Phil. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in West-smithfield.

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