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5.416 R41632 1 The Guinea wins her The Guinea Wins Her PRay hear my Lamentation/ young Gallants of the City, see also 5:407. Pepys 5.416 Wing P2896 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: 416 THE/ Poor Whore's Lamentation:/ OR,/ The Fleet=street Crack's Complaint/ FOR/ Want of TRADING. THE Poor Whore's Lamentation: OR, The Fleet-street Crack's Complaint FOR Want of TRADING. The Poor Whore's Lamentation: Or, the Fleet Street Prostitute's Complaint for Want of Trading. 1/2 sheet folio, 256 x 173 cropped top and left edges, uneven inking 1684-1700 LONDON: Printed for J. Bissel, near the Hospital in West-Smithfield. J. Bissel PBA

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Pray hear my Lamentation young Gallants of the City, Without dissimulation Afford one grain of pitty; Unto a Lady of the Town, Cloath'd in a ragged tatter'd Gown, For Traiding's grown so dead, Upon my Maiden-head, That though abroad I stay, I do not yearn I say, Sometimes a groat a day; We are poor, the trade was never so before. I once did wear my Tower, Rich Silks and sumptuous Laces, They all were in my power, I got them by Embraces; My Chain and Locket both of Gold, Which was most delightful to behold, And Sparks did me adore, I rol'd in Guinneys store; This was a living Trade, My Plumes I then display'd, And kept my Waiting-maid, But now, now, their Trade will not such State allow. They treated me with Nector, To gain a minute's pleasure, Yet over them I'd hector And make them wait my leasure, I was the topping Crack of all, Noble Lords would at my Lodging call; I went in rich Array, Much like a Lady gay, But now my Sleves of Lawn, And Smocks are all in pawn, My Cullies are withdrawn, I strange, strange at such a sad and dismal change.
My price it was a Guinny, Not long before last Easter, But now there is so many, I'm glad to take a Teaster, For why the Trade is spoil'd of late There's little Nancy, Bridget, Prue and Kate, They'll play at you no what, For Two-pence and a Pot; And thus quite through the Town, The prizes are run down, We ne'er get half-a-crown, Well paid, those Gillians has so spoil'd the Trade. There's Bridget, Prue, and Nancy, They'r fond and foolish Nises, If they a Cully fancy, They'll never stand for prizes, Immediately on him they'll dote, But this makes them wear a Thread-bare-Coat; And I among the rest, With sorrows am opprest, To see it worse and worse, If it continues thus, I shall be bound to Curse, Them all, who first did let their Prizes fall. I was as fair a Creature, As most was in the Nation, You never saw a sweeter, When in my Golden Station, My beauty is not much decay'd, For if I had but a living Trade, I shou'd be fine and gay, Then Gallants come away, My name is loving Nell, I do in Fleet-street dwell, And I shall use you well, Come amain, and raise my honour once again.
LONDON: Printed for J. Bissel, near the Hospital in West Smithfield.