%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE/ FEMALE DOCTRESS/ OR,/ Mother Midnights Cure/ FOR/ Barrenness in VVOmen,/ BEING/ A True Relation of a VVoman that pretended to Cure VVomen/ of Barrenness; Especially in the Mint in Southwark. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1684-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/09/2007 22339

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5.417 R188047 1 In Cold Nights when Winter's Frozen Long Cold Nights In Cold Nights When Winter's Frozen ALL you Ladies that are Barren, / If Old-age ben't crept too far on; imprint: 'Printed for J. Wilkins, iu White Friers[.] {'n' in 'in' is inverted: looks like 'u'} Pepys 5.417 Wing F666[a]A 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: 417 THE/ FEMALE DOCTRESS/ OR,/ Mother Midnights Cure/ FOR/ Barrenness in VVOmen,/ BEING/ A True Relation of a VVoman that pretended to Cure VVomen/ of Barrenness; Especially in the Mint in Southwark. 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. The Female Doctor or, Mother Midnight's Cure for Barrenness in Women, Being a True Relation of a Woman that Pretended to Cure Women of Barrenness; Especially in the Mint in Southwark. 1/2 sheet folio, 274 x 174 cropped top and right edges, uneven inking 1684-1703 Printed by J. Wilkins, in White-Friers J. Wilkins PBA

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[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