The Council of Elvira pronounced the penalty of excommunication against bawds and prostitutes, but it expressly commanded priests to receive at the communion-table prostitutes who had married Christians.
The allusion to Tarsia suggests some notice of the practice of the Roman bawds when they had secured a virgin.
The truth of it is, of all the Bawds I know, she merits most, having an house fit for the accommodation of the best.
It must not be thought a Digression from my intended Speculation, to talk of Bawds in a Discourse upon Wenches; for a Woman of the Town is not thoroughly and properly such, without having gone through the Education of one of these Houses.
Why are we seeds of these then, to shake hands With Bawds and base informers, kiss discredit, And court her like a Mistriss?
Brave fellows: I fear me Bawdsof five i'th' Pound.
Have they not Slaves and Rascals for their Offrings In full abundance; Bawds more than beasts for slaughter?
Thus Bawds with Wives of Citizens gets in, And then keeps up a Publick House of Sin: And whilst men do maintain their Wives so high Their lusts are more than they can satisfie.
Yes, as you are, And trust confederate knaves and bawds and whores.
There was a clause in the law, that all bawds who kept women for prostitution or sale, should be liable to pay, and that marriage itself should not be exempted.
Ay, out of the alms-basket, where charity appears in likeness of a piece of stinking fish, such as they beat bawds with when they are carted.
While slaves be false, fathers hard, and bawds be whorish.
The bawdsroamed through the whole city and entered every house.
Letters and bawds would grow useless too: by instinct, the kind will find the kind, and, having one nature, become of one mind.
They'll fret like carted bawds when they hear this news.
I will go straight to him, and follow him still: Say as he saith, be it good or ill; And sith these bawds get good provoking lechery, I trust flattery shall speed as well as bawdry.
And art a starving in a Ditch, think of me, Then dye, and let the wandring Bawds lament thee; Be gone, I charge thee leave me.
At the carting of bawds and prostitutes they were preceded by a mob beating basins and performing other rough music.
Let bawds and whores be sad, for I'll sing an the devil were a-dying.
Honest Mistress Horseleech, is this world a world to keep bawds and whores honest?
She hath had most cunning bawds to serve her turn, And more secure conveyances for lust Than towns of garrison for service.
And careful sisters spin that thread i' th' night, That does maintain them and their bawds i' th' day.
I answer, That most constables in our out-parishes Are bawds themselves, by which we scap'd the searches.
Hence, lewd Magician; dar'st thou make the gods Bawds to thy lust; will they do miracles To further evil?
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