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from him and says, / cannot see you, either you or I must 

 leave this Cabin and sleep some where else this Nighl. This 

 repulse makes him immediately withdraw, and address him- 

 self to some more kind Mistress, that will accept of his 

 favours. Neither doth it displease the Parents, that their 

 Daughters are thus acquainted, knowing by these Means that 

 they can command the young Men to help them in any Work 

 or Business they have occasion to use them in. 



They set apart the youngest and prittiest Faces for trad- 

 ing Girls, who are remarkably known by a particular Ton- 

 sure in their Hair (as I said before) which distinguishes 

 them from those engaged to Husbands ; for what is accounted 

 amongst us as most Criminal, are taken for slender Tres- 

 passes amongst them ; for if a young Man can get a Favour 

 of his Neighbour's Daughter, it is looked upon as a slight 

 Offence, because they are not permitted to Marry without 

 the King's Approbation, which is seldom before they are 

 twenty Years of age. 



These Girls are generally very Mercenary, and whoever 

 make use of them, engages them with some gTatuity or other, 

 the principal part whereof is for the King's use, exercising 

 his prerogative over all the Stews of his Nation, his own 

 Cabbin being very often the chief Brothel House. As they 

 grow in Years, the hot assaults of Love grow cooler, and then 

 they become more staid and constant to their Husbands, if 

 engaged ; many of them after their Engagement or Marriage, 

 are so reserved, that they will admit of no other to their Em- 

 braces but their Husbands. 



These trading Girls, after they have led that course of Life 

 several Years, in which time they scarce ever have a Child, 

 for it is supposed that they have some particular Secret, or 



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