%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An ANSWER/ TO THE/ Poor Whore's Complaint,/ In a Letter, from a Bully Spark of the Town, to/ Mistress Nell, the common Crack of Fleet-street; containing/ his Sorrow for her sad Complaint. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1684-1700 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/07/2007 22329

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5.407 R29118 1 The Guinea wins her The Guinea Wins Her AS I was ranging Nelly, / Through famous London City, see also 5.416 Pepys 5.407 Wing A3431 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 407 An ANSWER/ TO THE/ Poor Whore's Complaint,/ In a Letter, from a Bully Spark of the Town, to/ Mistress Nell, the common Crack of Fleet-street; containing/ his Sorrow for her sad Complaint. An ANSWER TO THE Poor Whore's Complaint, In a Letter, from a Bully Spark of the Town, to Mistress Nell, the common Crack of Fleet-street; containing his Sorrow for her sad Complaint. An Answer to the Poor Whore's Complaint, in a Letter, from a Bully Spark of the Town, to Mistress Nell, the Common Prostitute of Fleet Street, Containing His Sorrow for Her Sad Complaint. 1/2 sheet folio, 250 x 173 cropped top edge, damaged surface, uneven inking horizontal rules 1684-1700 LONDON: Printed for J. Bissel, near the Hospital-gate in West-Smithfield. J. Bissel PBA

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AS I was ranging Nelly, Through famous London City, The Heart within my Belly, Did grieve and ake with Pity, For there I heard the Women sing, Till they made the very Streets to ring, That you were poor and bare, And had no Smock to wear: What Mistress Nell, thought I! Sure this must be a lye, But strait they did reply, It was true, she having nothing scarce to do. You had a good beginning, And liv'd in seeming Glory, But now your lace and linning Is gone to Purgatory; My meaning is the Broaker's claws; Now I have consider'd what's the cause That you so Poor are made, 'Tis ean for want of Trade; The Bullies Hearts may ake, And their Foundations shake, When Cracks in Fleet-street brake; For I know, it soon will prove their overthrow. Ah! Nell, there is too many, With Impudence attended, When there should not be any, But what from Cracks defended; Yet here they come up e'ry week, From the very Devil's Arse-a-peak, Both East, West, North and South, And out of Nelly's Mouth They Eat the bread of Fame, And tho' from York they came, It is a burning shame This should be, when of the Trade they are not Free.
But Nelly, with Submission, This might be regulated; Then draw up your Petition To be incorporated; The Parliment of Women, they In their wisdom may find out a way, By some new Female-Law, To keep the Cracks in awe, And make the number low, For now in Troups they go, Therefore, some Laws I know Must be made, or they will ruin quite the Trade. There ought to be no other, According to Discretion, But those whose tender Mother, Was of the same Profession; But here's Doll, Bridget, Kat, and Prue, A ragged tribe of Deal knows who, Took up the Trade of late, And work at any rate; They do at Corners ply, And as Men passes by, They have them in their eye, Ah! poor Nell, this clearly spoils thy living well. From Fleet-street to the Tower, In all the Nanny-housen, There's common Cracks a power, Full five and fifty Thousand, A now to over-run the Land; Therefore let's endeavour out of hand, These Gillions to suppress, And make the number less, For if we don't subdue, This tatter'd ragged crew, 'Twill be the worse for you, Nell, I know, 'tis they that keeps the Prizes low.
LONDON: Printed for J. Bissel, near the Hospital-gate in West-Smithfield.