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CHAP. LXIV.
Of Pandarism, or Procuring.
NOw because that by the advice, assistance, and per∣swasion of Pimps and Bawds, both Whores and Whoremongers commit their mutual Follies; Let us discourse a little concerning their Subtleties and Devices; for as it is the Calling of a Whore onely to prostitute her own body, so it is the business of a Pimp or Bawd to batter and overcome the Chastity of another. Which is therefore a Trade to be in some respects preferr'd before the Trade of Self-prostitu∣tion, by how much it is the more wicked; and so much the more powerful, as being guarded with the Artillery of many other Arts, and Experience besides: so much the more pernicious, that while it makes use of other Arts and Sciences, whatever there is of poy∣son in any Art or Science, that this worshipful Voca∣tion wholly sucks to it self; out of which the weaves those Snares, that not like Spiders Cobwebs take the Flies, but let go the stronger Birds; nor like the strong toils of Hunters catch the bigger Beasts of Chace, and let go the less; but such strong Nooses and Bands, that no Maid, no Virgin, no Woman, never so silly, never so prudent, never so constant, never so obstinate, never so bashful, never so fearful, never so confident, but will at length lend a willing ear to a Bawd, & be insnar'd with her perswasions. So fine a Craft is this, that no woman can vanquish, whose perswasions no Virgin, Widow, Wife, or Matron, though a Vestal, can resist; whose un∣armed Militia vanquishes the Chastity of most women, which a whole Army would not be able to conquer.
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The crafty tricks, cunning shifts, deceit, circumven∣tions, delusions, frauds, and strange inventions of the Art of Bawdery, no Pen can suffice to set down, nor Wit to express: So that it is nothing strange, that though there be so many Professors of this Trade of both Sexes, yet there are few that arrive to a perfecti∣on therein. For since the Baits of Pandarism lie couch'd in every Art or Science, it behoves therefore a Bawd to be perfect in every one. Therefore she that intends to be a perfect Bawd, must not direct her stu∣dies to one particular sort of knowledge, as to her Pole∣star, but to be universally learned, as professing an Art to which all other Arts and Sciences are but the Slaves and Hand-maids. For first and foremost, Grammar, the Art of Writing and Speaking, affords ye ability to write Love-letters, and how to compose and frame them of Complements, Petitions, Lamentations, and Moans, Invocations, Protestations, and alluring perswasions; of all which ye have many late Presi∣dents, in Sylvius, Jacobus, Caviceus, and many other Modern Authors. There is also another use of Gram∣mar for the manner of abstruse and secret writing in Characters, an Invention of Archimedes the Syracusan, as Aulus Gellius reports. Concerning this, Trithemius Abbot of Spanheime hath written two Treatises some few years since, one under the Title of Polygraphy, the other under the Title of Stenography; in the latter of which, he hath discover'd such mysterious ways and means of expressing the minde at what distance soe∣ver, and concealing the meaning of words plainly legible, that the most discerning jealousie of Juno, nor the strict custody of Danae, nor the watchful eyes of Argos can ever prevent. Next to Grammar comes Madam Poesie, who by the assistance of her lascivious Rhimes, wanton Stories, and Love-dialogues, Epi∣grams, and Epistles, taken out of the Armories of Ve∣nus,
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playing the part of a Pimp and Bawd together, corrupts all Chastity, destroys all the hope, toward∣liness, and good manners of Youth. Well therefore do Poets deserve to have the Precedencie above other common Pandars and Bawds, of which the chiefest among the Antients were these, whom we have above named in the Chapter of Prostitution: as Callimachus, Philetes, Anacreon, Orpheus, Pindarus, Alceon, Sappha, Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius, Virgil, Ovid, Juvenal, and Martial: and we have now adays too many that write after a most impudent and shameful manner. Next to Poets, Rhetoricians claim Precedencie, the contrivers of fraudulent Flatteries and Perswasions; for which cause Suadela or Persuasio was held to be the chief Goddess of Pandarism. Historians also have not a little Interest in the World, especially the Com∣pilers of those Historical Romances of Lancelot, Tri∣stram, Eurialis, Peregrinus. Callisthus, and the like; by means whereof, young Children are in their tender years bred up and accustom'd to the Intrigues and Mysteries of Fornication and Adultery. Neither is there any Engine so powerful whatsoever to overthrow and oppress the Chastity of young Virgins, Wives, and Widows, than the reading of a wanton History: no woman so well principled, or of so chast a disposition, which is not spoil'd and tainted thereby. And yet for Maids and Virgins to discourse what they have read in these Books, to taunt and jeer, and prattle with their Servants or Wooers in imitation of what they read there! Now there have been many of these Histori∣cal Pandars, of which some of obscure same; as Aeneas Sylvius, Dantes and Petrarch, Boccace, Poutanus, Baptista de Campo Fragoso, and Baptis de Albertis a Floremine: Also Peter Haedus, Petrus Bembus, Jacobus Carniceus, Jacobus Calandrus, Mantuan, and many others, from all which Boccace bears away the Bell,
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especially in those Books which he calls his hundred Novels; where the Stories and Examples set down, do but discover the Stratagems and Tricks of Whores and Bawds. Now when a woman Vertuous, Religious, and Chast, is to be assail'd, then all the fallacious Argu∣ments of Rhetorick are let loose; and how far they avail, the Fable of Myrrha in Ovid tells ye. Now as concerning the Mathematicks, what greater assistance and help to familiarity, than your Mathematical Plays and Games? Neither is Musick a contemptible friend of this Art, as being no small incentive and provo∣cative to Lust, by means of her wanton Airs, and the Charms of Voice, and sweet touches of an Instrument, softning the Minde, moulding the Affections, and af∣terwards introducing variety of Society and Company, who begin at length to be Lovers and Admirers. Nei∣ther is there less use of Dancing and Dancing-schools, where the Lovers have freedom of Discourse, liberty of Kissing, Handling, and Embracing; and many times, after that, the conveniencie of withdrawing. Nei∣ther is the Geometrical Artist wanting to give his as∣sistance, by whose contrivance fine convenient Lad∣ders are made for the scaling of Windows, and by the cunning of Daedalus, Keys are many times counterfei∣ted, and no invention omitted that may farther Pasi∣phae's obedience to her Adulterer. But as for Pictures, these, women that never had the advantage of read∣ing, may understand more than they who had read never so much; while they behold within their Cham∣bers Copies of Obscenity, easie enough to be imitated, whereby the Eyes, as well as the Ears, become the Con∣duits to convey evil thoughts to the Heart. Pi∣ctures make a deep impression upon the Minde, seeing that the representation of what has been done, easily moves men to do the like: For example, Venus of G•idos drawn in her Temple by the hand of Praxitiles,
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in the Act of being Vitiated: and a Cupid of the same Artist corrupted by Alchidas a Rhodian young man. Elian also reports, that the Statue of Fortune was so vehemently belov'd by an Athenian young man, that when he could not be permitted to buy it, he expired at her feet. Terence also in his Eunuchus, brings in a young man inflam'd with Love, seeing a Picture, where was painted the Story how Jupiter lay with Danae in a Golden showre. Therefore not undeser∣vedly propose, that a severe penalty should be inflicted upon those Painters, who expos'd such things to the eyes of the multitude, whereby to kindle and inflame Lust; so that it was not without cause that the wise man said, That Statuary and Painting were invented by the Devil, as a chief means to tempt them to evil. In the next place we meet with Astrologers, Palmistry, Gypsies, Fortune-tellers, Dream-expounders, Witches, & Conjurers, an innumerable tribe of Assistants to Pan∣darism, by a kinde of Divine Imposition of their Fal∣lacies upon the disturb'd Fancies of Youth, bring un∣lawful Amours to perfection, contrive and finish most wicked and abominable Marriages, and er'e they be well knit together, dissolve them by and by into most heinous Adulteries. From such Panders as these, not onely credulous women, but to their unspeakable shame, men also fetch the prosperous Omens of their Loves and Marriages, grounding the hopes of Pos∣session or Enjoyment upon their uncertain guesses; and upon their not so stupid as impious assurances, either Marry, or leave the Pursuit of their Love. Nay, some are so mad as to believe, that by Astrological Images, and observation of Hours, Love may be compell'd, as Theocritus, Virgil, Catullus, Ovid, Horace, Lucan, and many other triflng Poets have made the world believe: By which single piece of Cunning, your A∣strologers and Fortune-tellers make no small advan∣tage.
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Next to which, Magick also brings a very con∣siderable aid.
That by her Charms some Lovers trees from fears,
Afflicting others with consuming Cares.
Of which Lucan thus sings:
—Love that before was sl•w,
Thessalian Charms now cause to overflow
Th' inflamed heart—
In Horace we finde Candidia; in Apuleius, Paemphilae provoking their Lovers; and in the Tragi comedy of Callisthus, Celestina the Bawd inflames the Virgin Melibae• by her Magick Art. To these we may adde the use of Philters and Love-potions, though very dangerous, sometimes the cause and procurers of Death instead of Love. One of these Drenches kill'd Lucullus and Lucretius, who before they did grew mad, and lost their senses. We read also of a certain wo∣man who was acquitted by the Areopagites, because she did it out of Love. But there is no Art or Science so use∣ful and profitable to Pandarism as Physick, that pro∣mises fairly, by renewing the Hymen•an Film, to re∣store lost Virginity, to hinder the Brests from swelling, to put a Spell upon the Womb, administring procure∣ments of Sterility for the longer continuation and se∣•resie of Venereal Combats, and teaching how by the swift motion of the Reins, to eject the first matter of Conception, as we read in Lucretius.
Thus for their own sakes, Whores were wont to move,
Left they should fill too soon, and gravid prove,
Not equal Pleasure with their Loves enjoy.
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By which one benefit of Physick, many Matrons and Widows, many that go for Maids, many Court-La∣••es most securely follow the sports of Venus. Nei∣ther is Physick less Officious in filling up the clefts of Age, in composing Pomatums and Fucus's, for which you may find infinite Receits in every Volume of Phy∣sick, and in all their Pharmacopoeas, under the Title of Decorating and cleansing the skin; and are of great use for Bawds, to put off their old Worm-eaten Ware: which Compositions the Scripture calls Oyntments of Whoredome. With these you shall also see set down many Incentives and Provocatives to Lust, which are call'd by another Name, Restoratives; by the help of which, Ovid boasts himself to have liv'd to the Nine∣tieth Year. Moreover, there is no design of Bawdery so closely and undiscernably carried, as that which is Acted under the Design of Physick; for there are no Houses so fast shut, no Nunneries so Recluse, no Prisons so well guarded, which will not admit a Physitian-Pan∣der, in whose shape Adulteries have been Commit∣ted in the Courts of Princes, as by Eudemus with Livia the Wife of Drusus; and by Valerius Vectius with Messa∣••ina the Wife of Claudius. Now lest any one should think the Philosophers unuseful for Pandarisme, behold Aristippus the very Master of the Cyrenaicks, who asso∣ciating himself among other Rivals with Thais a No∣ble Curtesan, boasted that he enjoyed Thais, others were only enjoyed by Thais; so that while they wasted their Estates upon her, he had his Pleasure with her gratis. Whereby it is shrewdly to be suspected, that •he Jade did but make the Philosopher her Pimp, by his Example and Authority, minding to draw the young Nobility to her Embraces. Neither was Aristip∣pus satisfied in making himself Pimp to a Whore; •ut he also began to teach the Arts of Lust in Publick, Translating them from the Brothel-house into the
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Schools. Nor are the Mechanick Arts less favourable to the Art of Bawdery than these we have rehears'd; especially, the Phrygian Arts of Weaving, Knitting, Sewing, and other the like Female Exercises, under pretence whereof your old Bawds while they pretend to carry about Linnen, Silk, Head-cloaths, Hoods, Lock∣ets, Gloves of young Whores, now become stale and experienced Bawds, making those Toyes the Baits of their Allurements, and thereby also obtaining the op∣portunity of Discourse; and these are immediately se∣conded by Laundresses and Chare-women, who have freedom of access into Houses: There are also Beg∣gars that under pretence of Charity are constant at the doors where any Design is laid, on purpose for the Conveyance of Letters and Messages.
And to the Married Wife those Gifts convey,
Which the Adulterer sends to make his way.
The Exercises of the Nobility also, as Tilting and Ju•∣ing, give great opportunities to Compass the Designs of Pandarisme, as also your Military Traynings, by means whereof, Romulus ravish'd the Sabin Virgins, And as for Hunting, how often have the Woods been privy to the secret Adult•ries of great Personag•s? In relation to which, Virgil takes a very good occasion to be merry, discribing the opportunity that Dido and Aeneas had when they lost their Company in Hunting. And Jupiter himself did oft-times make the Shepherds his Pimps. What great opportunities are got by go∣ing by Water, Venice can testifie. The Art of Cookerie gives also the same advantages at great Feasts and Dinners.
After the Feast was ended, all took down,
They mighty Goblets place, and Bacchus Crown.
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Here rich with Gems and Gold, the Queen requires
A Bowl with Wine; them merry be, desires.
Then having gently kiss'd the swelling Cup,
Gave't Bicias: be the full Gold soon turns up;
Next other Peers.—
Tyrians and Trojans praise with one consent,
But the slow Night unhappy Dido spent
In various talk, and long imbibed Love.
There are many other Artifices also of Bawds and Pimps: but above all, there is nothing like the temp∣tation of Gold, wherein if the Alchymist could satisfie our Expectation, they would be the most Invincible Panders in the World.
A Wife well Portion'd, high Repute and Friends,
Kindred and Beauty, all Queen Pecunia sends.
The Jealous Husband is appeas'd with Gold, the inex∣orable Rival mollified with Gold, the most strict and watchful Keepers and Guardians are corrupted with Gold: there is no Dore, no Gate, but opens to Gold: no Bed-chamber, but gives entrance to Gold: Bars, Stone-walls, and the indissoluble Bonds of Wedlock, all yield to the Force of Gold: and what wonder if Virgins, Widows, Matrons, Vestal Virgins, are sold and bought for Gold, when Christ himself was sold for Silver? Moreover, under the Leading and good Conduct of this Captain of Pandarism, many have risen from ve∣ry low and mean Fortunes, to the highest degree of No∣bility. That man prostitutes his Wife, and is presently made a great Officer; another prostitutes his Daughter, and is presently made an Earl; another for procuring such or such a Lady into the embraces of his Prince, is streightway thought to be worthy of some great reward, and is presently made a Bed-chamber-man.
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Others are come to be great persons, for marrying the Kings Concubines; and being preferr'd to great Em∣ployments by the same Arts of Pimping and Pandar∣ing, make sufficient gain of Popes and Cardinals; nei∣ther is there any way more compendious to get an E∣state. Now how much Religion conduces to Panda∣rism, the History of Paulina a most Chast and Constant Lady, related by Aegesippus, most abundantly testifies, whom the Priests of Isis prostituted to a young Knight, whom they made her believe to be the God Anubis. What more powerful Charm for the advancement of Pandarism, than Auricular Confession? as is sufficiently manifest in the Tripartite History, and of which, were I so minded, I could give fresh Examples upon my own knowledge. For the Priests, Fryers, Monks, and Si∣sters, have a special Prerogative to be both Pimps and Bawds, having the liberty to wander where they please, and with whom they please, when and as oft as they please, to converse with all privacie and secrecie, with∣out any witnesses neer; so well and securely and their Bawderies personated and disguis'd. Some there are among 'um, who think themselves anathematiz'd, should they touch Money; yet the words of St. Paul nothing move 'um, That it is not good to touch a wo∣man: and yet they not onely handle 'um with their unchast hands, but secretly also haunt the publick Bro∣thel-houses, deflowering the Holy Nuns, vitiating Wi∣dows, and adulterating the Wives of their Host• sometimes, which I both know and have seen; like the Trojan Ravisher, they carry 'um quite away, and pro∣stitute 'um in common to their Fellows, according to Plato's Law; & whereas they ought to gain their Souls to God, they sacrifice their souls to the Devil. Many other more wicked Crimes than these, their mad Lust com∣mits, which it is a shameful thing to utter; in the mean while, believing that they have sufficiently per∣form'd
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their Vow of Chastity, if they do but in words onely bitterly inveigh against Luxury, Fornication, Adultery, and Incest; not being able to talk of Ver∣tue without shaking their Buttocks. Such as these the great Ladies always keep neer 'um, the Contrivers of Court-marriages and Adulteries. There was in an∣tient time a Decree of the Senate engraven in two Ta∣bles, and kept in the Temple of Venus, a Law favou∣rable to Whoremongers and Bawds; a Copy where∣of we finde set down by Crinitus in these words: The Laws of visiting, courting, whispering, toying, in∣truding, saluting, discoursing, wooing, let them be per∣mitted by me. Let no man hinder them from all con∣veniences in the House, at the Windows, in the Garden, postico impluvio, let them carry their Messages, let them keep Faith, let them give all aid and Assistance. In the second Table thus: At Night let them mind their Vows, let them with their protestations mingle Complaints, let them put away all shame and fear; let them sup∣press sorrow, let them take hold of time and place, never give way to opportunity; in their Love-Letters succidunto; in them let them urge their hopes, their affection, their expectation, necessity and compassion, fraud, force or stratagem, let them moderately use; let them act prudently, or foolishly; from a Mistress, let them always take any thing as a Pledge or Pawn; by her permission let them proceed, or seek a new one; let them Court a Noble high-minded Lady with pomp and subtletie: His Conjectures let him silently pursue. Lycurgus also made a Law, That if any person stricken in Age, and unfit for Marriage, should happen to Wed a young Virgin, it might be lawful for her to choose any young Man strong and lusty, to hansel her Fruit∣ful Womb with a more generous Seed, provided that the off-spring should be her Husbands. There was also another Law made by Solon, which gave liberty
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to Wives, if their Husbands were grown infirm, and not able for the Venereal sport, to chuse some one per∣son, next of Kin, to lie with 'um, provided the Off-spring should not be alienated. And I onely touch upon it by the way, that there are many Noble wo∣men now adays, who are well known to make use of other men to get them with Childe, and impose their spurious Issue upon their Husbands: Afterwards being brought to Bed and up again, they return to the Society of their Adulterers: In that worse than Ju∣lia the Wife of Agrippa, who would never receive a Passenger till the Ship was laden. In the Sacred Writ also we finde the stratagems and devices of Lovers and Love-assistants, as of the Mother-in-Law of Ruth, in Jonadah whom the Scripture calls a Wise man, and in Achitophel a grave and prudent Counsellor. We read also, that Abraham when he sojourned with the Egyptians, knowing his Wife to be fair and young, I know, saith he, that thou art a fair woman to look up∣on, therefore it will come to pass when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife; so will they kill me, but thee will say, keep alive: say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my life may be saved. So the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house, and Abraham was intreated well for her sake. The same subtlety he also us'd towards A∣bimeleck King of the Philistines; and so did Isaac the Son of Abraham. Thus you see the Art of Pandarism has been highly honour'd and advanc'd by the Gods, by Heroes, Legislators, Philosophers, Wise men, Di∣vines, Princes and Prelates. Pan and Mercury them∣selves were Pandars, and the little Boy Cupid: The Hero Vlysses, the Lawgivers, Lycurgus and Solon, were Pandars, who were the first that built Brothel-houses, and countenanc'd the Prostitution of young women to men. Of later days Pope Sixtus built up a most noble
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Brothel-house at Rome; the Emperour also Heliogaba∣lus fed whole droves of Whores in his own house, for the use of his friends and acquaintance. It has been the great care of Queens, Princesses, and great Ladies, to practise this Art, in so much that many Queens have been the procurers of Female-pleasure to their own Sons. Nor have the chief Magistrates and Bur∣gomasters of Cities disdain'd the Office; for the Co∣rinthians, Ephesians, Abydens, Cyprians, Babylonians, and many other Magistrates of other Towns, were all of them Pimps and Panders to their Subjects, buil∣ding and maintaining Bawdy-houses in their Cities, not a little inriching their Treasuries with the Tribute which they exacted from Curtesans: which is a thing common in Italy, and in Rome every Curtesan pays a Julio a week to the Pope, which many years amounts to above Twenty thousand Ducats; the hire and wages of Whores being a great part of the Ecclesiastical Treasury. Nay, I have heard some compting up their Estates in this manner: He hath, saith he, two Bene∣fices, one Curateship of twenty Crowns, another Pri∣ory of forty, and the tribute of three Whores in the Bordelli, which amounts to twenty Julio's a week. No less Pimps and Bawds are those Bishops and Offi∣cers, that exact a yearly Tribute from the Priests, to permit them the use of Concubines; which exaction is become a Proverb among the common people, who cry, Shall he, or shall be not have a Concubine? Let him pay a Crown, and take one. But in the Kingdom of Co∣vetousness, there is nothing accompted shameful by which Money is to be gotten. I pass over the inven∣tion of Toleration, which gives a woman liberty, by means of a little Money paid to the Bishop, to co habit in Adultery with another man. All which things are so manifest, that it is impossible to say which is most ap∣parent, the impudence of the Prelates, or the stupidity
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of the common People: so that it were very needful for the Princes of Germany to seek redress hereof, as one of the greatest grievances and oppressions of their Empire. Such Patrons has the Craft of Pandarism, who with no less power defend the mysteries of Puta∣nism; for which, to our great grief and shame be it spoken, there are such great Priviledges and Immuni∣ties throughout the whole Christian Commonwealth, such ample tolerations, contrary to the Divine Laws, and the Word of God it self: Humane Reason and the Power of Pandarism so potently contriving to give to Youth this wicked Liberty, under the pretence of kee∣ping them from acting higher Impieties. Take away Whores, they cry, out of the Commonwealth, and streight the world will be fill'd with Rapes, Adulteries, and Incests: no Matron shall remain unviolated, the Chastity of no Widow shall be safe, Virgin and Vestal Nuns will not escape their fury: From whence they conclude it to be impossible for a Commonwealth or Nation to be in a quiet posture of Government, with∣out the allowance of Harlots; without whom the Children of Israel however liv'd so Chastly and Con∣tinently for many Ages together: for such was the Command of God, There shall be neither whores nor whoremongers suffered among the children of Israel. Notwithstanding which, that beastly liberty before mentioned has endeavoured to invade the Pale of the Church under the pretence of Religion, and was the ground of the Nicolaitan Heresie, who to avoid the suspition of Jealousie, prostituted their own Wives, and by a Platonick custom maintained community of Wives. But we are bound to let all Princes, Judges, and Magi∣strates understand, that whoever they be that permit the use of Brothels, or by any way connive at their sufferance, though they themselves may perhaps not be guilty of the Crime it self, to them shall God speak as
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is spoken by the Psalmist: If thou didst see a thief, thou didst run with him, and didst set up thy portion with Adulterers. These things hast thou done, and I have held my peace; Thou didst believe I would be like thee, but I will convince thee, and set thy transgressions before thee.
Of Pandarism, or Procuring.
NOw because that by the advice, assistance, and per∣swasion of Pimps and Bawds, both Whores and Whoremongers commit their mutual Follies; Let us discourse a little concerning their Subtleties and Devices; for as it is the Calling of a Whore onely to prostitute her own body, so it is the business of a Pimp or Bawd to batter and overcome the Chastity of another. Which is therefore a Trade to be in some respects preferr'd before the Trade of Self-prostitu∣tion, by how much it is the more wicked; and so much the more powerful, as being guarded with the Artillery of many other Arts, and Experience besides: so much the more pernicious, that while it makes use of other Arts and Sciences, whatever there is of poy∣son in any Art or Science, that this worshipful Voca∣tion wholly sucks to it self; out of which the weaves those Snares, that not like Spiders Cobwebs take the Flies, but let go the stronger Birds; nor like the strong toils of Hunters catch the bigger Beasts of Chace, and let go the less; but such strong Nooses and Bands, that no Maid, no Virgin, no Woman, never so silly, never so prudent, never so constant, never so obstinate, never so bashful, never so fearful, never so confident, but will at length lend a willing ear to a Bawd, & be insnar'd with her perswasions. So fine a Craft is this, that no woman can vanquish, whose perswasions no Virgin, Widow, Wife, or Matron, though a Vestal, can resist; whose un∣armed Militia vanquishes the Chastity of most women, which a whole Army would not be able to conquer.
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The crafty tricks, cunning shifts, deceit, circumven∣tions, delusions, frauds, and strange inventions of the Art of Bawdery, no Pen can suffice to set down, nor Wit to express: So that it is nothing strange, that though there be so many Professors of this Trade of both Sexes, yet there are few that arrive to a perfecti∣on therein. For since the Baits of Pandarism lie couch'd in every Art or Science, it behoves therefore a Bawd to be perfect in every one. Therefore she that intends to be a perfect Bawd, must not direct her stu∣dies to one particular sort of knowledge, as to her Pole∣star, but to be universally learned, as professing an Art to which all other Arts and Sciences are but the Slaves and Hand-maids. For first and foremost, Grammar, the Art of Writing and Speaking, affords ye ability to write Love-letters, and how to compose and frame them of Complements, Petitions, Lamentations, and Moans, Invocations, Protestations, and alluring perswasions; of all which ye have many late Presi∣dents, in Sylvius, Jacobus, Caviceus, and many other Modern Authors. There is also another use of Gram∣mar for the manner of abstruse and secret writing in Characters, an Invention of Archimedes the Syracusan, as Aulus Gellius reports. Concerning this, Trithemius Abbot of Spanheime hath written two Treatises some few years since, one under the Title of Polygraphy, the other under the Title of Stenography; in the latter of which, he hath discover'd such mysterious ways and means of expressing the minde at what distance soe∣ver, and concealing the meaning of words plainly legible, that the most discerning jealousie of Juno, nor the strict custody of Danae, nor the watchful eyes of Argos can ever prevent. Next to Grammar comes Madam Poesie, who by the assistance of her lascivious Rhimes, wanton Stories, and Love-dialogues, Epi∣grams, and Epistles, taken out of the Armories of Ve∣nus,
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playing the part of a Pimp and Bawd together, corrupts all Chastity, destroys all the hope, toward∣liness, and good manners of Youth. Well therefore do Poets deserve to have the Precedencie above other common Pandars and Bawds, of which the chiefest among the Antients were these, whom we have above named in the Chapter of Prostitution: as Callimachus, Philetes, Anacreon, Orpheus, Pindarus, Alceon, Sappha, Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius, Virgil, Ovid, Juvenal, and Martial: and we have now adays too many that write after a most impudent and shameful manner. Next to Poets, Rhetoricians claim Precedencie, the contrivers of fraudulent Flatteries and Perswasions; for which cause Suadela or Persuasio was held to be the chief Goddess of Pandarism. Historians also have not a little Interest in the World, especially the Com∣pilers of those Historical Romances of Lancelot, Tri∣stram, Eurialis, Peregrinus. Callisthus, and the like; by means whereof, young Children are in their tender years bred up and accustom'd to the Intrigues and Mysteries of Fornication and Adultery. Neither is there any Engine so powerful whatsoever to overthrow and oppress the Chastity of young Virgins, Wives, and Widows, than the reading of a wanton History: no woman so well principled, or of so chast a disposition, which is not spoil'd and tainted thereby. And yet for Maids and Virgins to discourse what they have read in these Books, to taunt and jeer, and prattle with their Servants or Wooers in imitation of what they read there! Now there have been many of these Histori∣cal Pandars, of which some of obscure same; as Aeneas Sylvius, Dantes and Petrarch, Boccace, Poutanus, Baptista de Campo Fragoso, and Baptis de Albertis a Floremine: Also Peter Haedus, Petrus Bembus, Jacobus Carniceus, Jacobus Calandrus, Mantuan, and many others, from all which Boccace bears away the Bell,
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especially in those Books which he calls his hundred Novels; where the Stories and Examples set down, do but discover the Stratagems and Tricks of Whores and Bawds. Now when a woman Vertuous, Religious, and Chast, is to be assail'd, then all the fallacious Argu∣ments of Rhetorick are let loose; and how far they avail, the Fable of Myrrha in Ovid tells ye. Now as concerning the Mathematicks, what greater assistance and help to familiarity, than your Mathematical Plays and Games? Neither is Musick a contemptible friend of this Art, as being no small incentive and provo∣cative to Lust, by means of her wanton Airs, and the Charms of Voice, and sweet touches of an Instrument, softning the Minde, moulding the Affections, and af∣terwards introducing variety of Society and Company, who begin at length to be Lovers and Admirers. Nei∣ther is there less use of Dancing and Dancing-schools, where the Lovers have freedom of Discourse, liberty of Kissing, Handling, and Embracing; and many times, after that, the conveniencie of withdrawing. Nei∣ther is the Geometrical Artist wanting to give his as∣sistance, by whose contrivance fine convenient Lad∣ders are made for the scaling of Windows, and by the cunning of Daedalus, Keys are many times counterfei∣ted, and no invention omitted that may farther Pasi∣phae's obedience to her Adulterer. But as for Pictures, these, women that never had the advantage of read∣ing, may understand more than they who had read never so much; while they behold within their Cham∣bers Copies of Obscenity, easie enough to be imitated, whereby the Eyes, as well as the Ears, become the Con∣duits to convey evil thoughts to the Heart. Pi∣ctures make a deep impression upon the Minde, seeing that the representation of what has been done, easily moves men to do the like: For example, Venus of G•idos drawn in her Temple by the hand of Praxitiles,
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in the Act of being Vitiated: and a Cupid of the same Artist corrupted by Alchidas a Rhodian young man. Elian also reports, that the Statue of Fortune was so vehemently belov'd by an Athenian young man, that when he could not be permitted to buy it, he expired at her feet. Terence also in his Eunuchus, brings in a young man inflam'd with Love, seeing a Picture, where was painted the Story how Jupiter lay with Danae in a Golden showre. Therefore not undeser∣vedly propose, that a severe penalty should be inflicted upon those Painters, who expos'd such things to the eyes of the multitude, whereby to kindle and inflame Lust; so that it was not without cause that the wise man said, That Statuary and Painting were invented by the Devil, as a chief means to tempt them to evil. In the next place we meet with Astrologers, Palmistry, Gypsies, Fortune-tellers, Dream-expounders, Witches, & Conjurers, an innumerable tribe of Assistants to Pan∣darism, by a kinde of Divine Imposition of their Fal∣lacies upon the disturb'd Fancies of Youth, bring un∣lawful Amours to perfection, contrive and finish most wicked and abominable Marriages, and er'e they be well knit together, dissolve them by and by into most heinous Adulteries. From such Panders as these, not onely credulous women, but to their unspeakable shame, men also fetch the prosperous Omens of their Loves and Marriages, grounding the hopes of Pos∣session or Enjoyment upon their uncertain guesses; and upon their not so stupid as impious assurances, either Marry, or leave the Pursuit of their Love. Nay, some are so mad as to believe, that by Astrological Images, and observation of Hours, Love may be compell'd, as Theocritus, Virgil, Catullus, Ovid, Horace, Lucan, and many other triflng Poets have made the world believe: By which single piece of Cunning, your A∣strologers and Fortune-tellers make no small advan∣tage.
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Next to which, Magick also brings a very con∣siderable aid.
That by her Charms some Lovers trees from fears,
Afflicting others with consuming Cares.
Of which Lucan thus sings:
—Love that before was sl•w,
Thessalian Charms now cause to overflow
Th' inflamed heart—
In Horace we finde Candidia; in Apuleius, Paemphilae provoking their Lovers; and in the Tragi comedy of Callisthus, Celestina the Bawd inflames the Virgin Melibae• by her Magick Art. To these we may adde the use of Philters and Love-potions, though very dangerous, sometimes the cause and procurers of Death instead of Love. One of these Drenches kill'd Lucullus and Lucretius, who before they did grew mad, and lost their senses. We read also of a certain wo∣man who was acquitted by the Areopagites, because she did it out of Love. But there is no Art or Science so use∣ful and profitable to Pandarism as Physick, that pro∣mises fairly, by renewing the Hymen•an Film, to re∣store lost Virginity, to hinder the Brests from swelling, to put a Spell upon the Womb, administring procure∣ments of Sterility for the longer continuation and se∣•resie of Venereal Combats, and teaching how by the swift motion of the Reins, to eject the first matter of Conception, as we read in Lucretius.
Thus for their own sakes, Whores were wont to move,
Left they should fill too soon, and gravid prove,
Not equal Pleasure with their Loves enjoy.
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By which one benefit of Physick, many Matrons and Widows, many that go for Maids, many Court-La∣••es most securely follow the sports of Venus. Nei∣ther is Physick less Officious in filling up the clefts of Age, in composing Pomatums and Fucus's, for which you may find infinite Receits in every Volume of Phy∣sick, and in all their Pharmacopoeas, under the Title of Decorating and cleansing the skin; and are of great use for Bawds, to put off their old Worm-eaten Ware: which Compositions the Scripture calls Oyntments of Whoredome. With these you shall also see set down many Incentives and Provocatives to Lust, which are call'd by another Name, Restoratives; by the help of which, Ovid boasts himself to have liv'd to the Nine∣tieth Year. Moreover, there is no design of Bawdery so closely and undiscernably carried, as that which is Acted under the Design of Physick; for there are no Houses so fast shut, no Nunneries so Recluse, no Prisons so well guarded, which will not admit a Physitian-Pan∣der, in whose shape Adulteries have been Commit∣ted in the Courts of Princes, as by Eudemus with Livia the Wife of Drusus; and by Valerius Vectius with Messa∣••ina the Wife of Claudius. Now lest any one should think the Philosophers unuseful for Pandarisme, behold Aristippus the very Master of the Cyrenaicks, who asso∣ciating himself among other Rivals with Thais a No∣ble Curtesan, boasted that he enjoyed Thais, others were only enjoyed by Thais; so that while they wasted their Estates upon her, he had his Pleasure with her gratis. Whereby it is shrewdly to be suspected, that •he Jade did but make the Philosopher her Pimp, by his Example and Authority, minding to draw the young Nobility to her Embraces. Neither was Aristip∣pus satisfied in making himself Pimp to a Whore; •ut he also began to teach the Arts of Lust in Publick, Translating them from the Brothel-house into the
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Schools. Nor are the Mechanick Arts less favourable to the Art of Bawdery than these we have rehears'd; especially, the Phrygian Arts of Weaving, Knitting, Sewing, and other the like Female Exercises, under pretence whereof your old Bawds while they pretend to carry about Linnen, Silk, Head-cloaths, Hoods, Lock∣ets, Gloves of young Whores, now become stale and experienced Bawds, making those Toyes the Baits of their Allurements, and thereby also obtaining the op∣portunity of Discourse; and these are immediately se∣conded by Laundresses and Chare-women, who have freedom of access into Houses: There are also Beg∣gars that under pretence of Charity are constant at the doors where any Design is laid, on purpose for the Conveyance of Letters and Messages.
And to the Married Wife those Gifts convey,
Which the Adulterer sends to make his way.
The Exercises of the Nobility also, as Tilting and Ju•∣ing, give great opportunities to Compass the Designs of Pandarisme, as also your Military Traynings, by means whereof, Romulus ravish'd the Sabin Virgins, And as for Hunting, how often have the Woods been privy to the secret Adult•ries of great Personag•s? In relation to which, Virgil takes a very good occasion to be merry, discribing the opportunity that Dido and Aeneas had when they lost their Company in Hunting. And Jupiter himself did oft-times make the Shepherds his Pimps. What great opportunities are got by go∣ing by Water, Venice can testifie. The Art of Cookerie gives also the same advantages at great Feasts and Dinners.
After the Feast was ended, all took down,
They mighty Goblets place, and Bacchus Crown.
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Here rich with Gems and Gold, the Queen requires
A Bowl with Wine; them merry be, desires.
Then having gently kiss'd the swelling Cup,
Gave't Bicias: be the full Gold soon turns up;
Next other Peers.—
Tyrians and Trojans praise with one consent,
But the slow Night unhappy Dido spent
In various talk, and long imbibed Love.
There are many other Artifices also of Bawds and Pimps: but above all, there is nothing like the temp∣tation of Gold, wherein if the Alchymist could satisfie our Expectation, they would be the most Invincible Panders in the World.
A Wife well Portion'd, high Repute and Friends,
Kindred and Beauty, all Queen Pecunia sends.
The Jealous Husband is appeas'd with Gold, the inex∣orable Rival mollified with Gold, the most strict and watchful Keepers and Guardians are corrupted with Gold: there is no Dore, no Gate, but opens to Gold: no Bed-chamber, but gives entrance to Gold: Bars, Stone-walls, and the indissoluble Bonds of Wedlock, all yield to the Force of Gold: and what wonder if Virgins, Widows, Matrons, Vestal Virgins, are sold and bought for Gold, when Christ himself was sold for Silver? Moreover, under the Leading and good Conduct of this Captain of Pandarism, many have risen from ve∣ry low and mean Fortunes, to the highest degree of No∣bility. That man prostitutes his Wife, and is presently made a great Officer; another prostitutes his Daughter, and is presently made an Earl; another for procuring such or such a Lady into the embraces of his Prince, is streightway thought to be worthy of some great reward, and is presently made a Bed-chamber-man.
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Others are come to be great persons, for marrying the Kings Concubines; and being preferr'd to great Em∣ployments by the same Arts of Pimping and Pandar∣ing, make sufficient gain of Popes and Cardinals; nei∣ther is there any way more compendious to get an E∣state. Now how much Religion conduces to Panda∣rism, the History of Paulina a most Chast and Constant Lady, related by Aegesippus, most abundantly testifies, whom the Priests of Isis prostituted to a young Knight, whom they made her believe to be the God Anubis. What more powerful Charm for the advancement of Pandarism, than Auricular Confession? as is sufficiently manifest in the Tripartite History, and of which, were I so minded, I could give fresh Examples upon my own knowledge. For the Priests, Fryers, Monks, and Si∣sters, have a special Prerogative to be both Pimps and Bawds, having the liberty to wander where they please, and with whom they please, when and as oft as they please, to converse with all privacie and secrecie, with∣out any witnesses neer; so well and securely and their Bawderies personated and disguis'd. Some there are among 'um, who think themselves anathematiz'd, should they touch Money; yet the words of St. Paul nothing move 'um, That it is not good to touch a wo∣man: and yet they not onely handle 'um with their unchast hands, but secretly also haunt the publick Bro∣thel-houses, deflowering the Holy Nuns, vitiating Wi∣dows, and adulterating the Wives of their Host• sometimes, which I both know and have seen; like the Trojan Ravisher, they carry 'um quite away, and pro∣stitute 'um in common to their Fellows, according to Plato's Law; & whereas they ought to gain their Souls to God, they sacrifice their souls to the Devil. Many other more wicked Crimes than these, their mad Lust com∣mits, which it is a shameful thing to utter; in the mean while, believing that they have sufficiently per∣form'd
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their Vow of Chastity, if they do but in words onely bitterly inveigh against Luxury, Fornication, Adultery, and Incest; not being able to talk of Ver∣tue without shaking their Buttocks. Such as these the great Ladies always keep neer 'um, the Contrivers of Court-marriages and Adulteries. There was in an∣tient time a Decree of the Senate engraven in two Ta∣bles, and kept in the Temple of Venus, a Law favou∣rable to Whoremongers and Bawds; a Copy where∣of we finde set down by Crinitus in these words: The Laws of visiting, courting, whispering, toying, in∣truding, saluting, discoursing, wooing, let them be per∣mitted by me. Let no man hinder them from all con∣veniences in the House, at the Windows, in the Garden, postico impluvio, let them carry their Messages, let them keep Faith, let them give all aid and Assistance. In the second Table thus: At Night let them mind their Vows, let them with their protestations mingle Complaints, let them put away all shame and fear; let them sup∣press sorrow, let them take hold of time and place, never give way to opportunity; in their Love-Letters succidunto; in them let them urge their hopes, their affection, their expectation, necessity and compassion, fraud, force or stratagem, let them moderately use; let them act prudently, or foolishly; from a Mistress, let them always take any thing as a Pledge or Pawn; by her permission let them proceed, or seek a new one; let them Court a Noble high-minded Lady with pomp and subtletie: His Conjectures let him silently pursue. Lycurgus also made a Law, That if any person stricken in Age, and unfit for Marriage, should happen to Wed a young Virgin, it might be lawful for her to choose any young Man strong and lusty, to hansel her Fruit∣ful Womb with a more generous Seed, provided that the off-spring should be her Husbands. There was also another Law made by Solon, which gave liberty
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to Wives, if their Husbands were grown infirm, and not able for the Venereal sport, to chuse some one per∣son, next of Kin, to lie with 'um, provided the Off-spring should not be alienated. And I onely touch upon it by the way, that there are many Noble wo∣men now adays, who are well known to make use of other men to get them with Childe, and impose their spurious Issue upon their Husbands: Afterwards being brought to Bed and up again, they return to the Society of their Adulterers: In that worse than Ju∣lia the Wife of Agrippa, who would never receive a Passenger till the Ship was laden. In the Sacred Writ also we finde the stratagems and devices of Lovers and Love-assistants, as of the Mother-in-Law of Ruth, in Jonadah whom the Scripture calls a Wise man, and in Achitophel a grave and prudent Counsellor. We read also, that Abraham when he sojourned with the Egyptians, knowing his Wife to be fair and young, I know, saith he, that thou art a fair woman to look up∣on, therefore it will come to pass when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife; so will they kill me, but thee will say, keep alive: say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my life may be saved. So the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house, and Abraham was intreated well for her sake. The same subtlety he also us'd towards A∣bimeleck King of the Philistines; and so did Isaac the Son of Abraham. Thus you see the Art of Pandarism has been highly honour'd and advanc'd by the Gods, by Heroes, Legislators, Philosophers, Wise men, Di∣vines, Princes and Prelates. Pan and Mercury them∣selves were Pandars, and the little Boy Cupid: The Hero Vlysses, the Lawgivers, Lycurgus and Solon, were Pandars, who were the first that built Brothel-houses, and countenanc'd the Prostitution of young women to men. Of later days Pope Sixtus built up a most noble
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Brothel-house at Rome; the Emperour also Heliogaba∣lus fed whole droves of Whores in his own house, for the use of his friends and acquaintance. It has been the great care of Queens, Princesses, and great Ladies, to practise this Art, in so much that many Queens have been the procurers of Female-pleasure to their own Sons. Nor have the chief Magistrates and Bur∣gomasters of Cities disdain'd the Office; for the Co∣rinthians, Ephesians, Abydens, Cyprians, Babylonians, and many other Magistrates of other Towns, were all of them Pimps and Panders to their Subjects, buil∣ding and maintaining Bawdy-houses in their Cities, not a little inriching their Treasuries with the Tribute which they exacted from Curtesans: which is a thing common in Italy, and in Rome every Curtesan pays a Julio a week to the Pope, which many years amounts to above Twenty thousand Ducats; the hire and wages of Whores being a great part of the Ecclesiastical Treasury. Nay, I have heard some compting up their Estates in this manner: He hath, saith he, two Bene∣fices, one Curateship of twenty Crowns, another Pri∣ory of forty, and the tribute of three Whores in the Bordelli, which amounts to twenty Julio's a week. No less Pimps and Bawds are those Bishops and Offi∣cers, that exact a yearly Tribute from the Priests, to permit them the use of Concubines; which exaction is become a Proverb among the common people, who cry, Shall he, or shall be not have a Concubine? Let him pay a Crown, and take one. But in the Kingdom of Co∣vetousness, there is nothing accompted shameful by which Money is to be gotten. I pass over the inven∣tion of Toleration, which gives a woman liberty, by means of a little Money paid to the Bishop, to co habit in Adultery with another man. All which things are so manifest, that it is impossible to say which is most ap∣parent, the impudence of the Prelates, or the stupidity
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of the common People: so that it were very needful for the Princes of Germany to seek redress hereof, as one of the greatest grievances and oppressions of their Empire. Such Patrons has the Craft of Pandarism, who with no less power defend the mysteries of Puta∣nism; for which, to our great grief and shame be it spoken, there are such great Priviledges and Immuni∣ties throughout the whole Christian Commonwealth, such ample tolerations, contrary to the Divine Laws, and the Word of God it self: Humane Reason and the Power of Pandarism so potently contriving to give to Youth this wicked Liberty, under the pretence of kee∣ping them from acting higher Impieties. Take away Whores, they cry, out of the Commonwealth, and streight the world will be fill'd with Rapes, Adulteries, and Incests: no Matron shall remain unviolated, the Chastity of no Widow shall be safe, Virgin and Vestal Nuns will not escape their fury: From whence they conclude it to be impossible for a Commonwealth or Nation to be in a quiet posture of Government, with∣out the allowance of Harlots; without whom the Children of Israel however liv'd so Chastly and Con∣tinently for many Ages together: for such was the Command of God, There shall be neither whores nor whoremongers suffered among the children of Israel. Notwithstanding which, that beastly liberty before mentioned has endeavoured to invade the Pale of the Church under the pretence of Religion, and was the ground of the Nicolaitan Heresie, who to avoid the suspition of Jealousie, prostituted their own Wives, and by a Platonick custom maintained community of Wives. But we are bound to let all Princes, Judges, and Magi∣strates understand, that whoever they be that permit the use of Brothels, or by any way connive at their sufferance, though they themselves may perhaps not be guilty of the Crime it self, to them shall God speak as
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is spoken by the Psalmist: If thou didst see a thief, thou didst run with him, and didst set up thy portion with Adulterers. These things hast thou done, and I have held my peace; Thou didst believe I would be like thee, but I will convince thee, and set thy transgressions before thee.