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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Declaration of the Maids of the City of LONDON, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVEE the &s;ubordinate Subjects of this Common-wealth, do Declare our &s;elves to joyn with the Apprentices of this Ci|ty, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> by way of down-right Hone&s;ty, for the encrea&s;e of the City force again&s;t this Army-fied Parliament:</P>
<P>And we doe Declare, That to prevent all Ho&s;tile Incur&s;ion upon us, from this Army or Parliament; that the &s;aid Apprentices &s;hall enter us by way of Li&s;ting; and if they doe advance; we hope it will never be beyond the Line of Communication.</P>
<P>We &s;hall be ready to &s;erve in the &s;ame Service with them, to maintain and &s;ecure our Forts from the up&s;tart Preachers, who without our call, will be daring to thru&s;t them&s;elves into our Pulpits.</P>
<P>And therefore, fir&s;t, We Declare again&s;t the Coblers &s;ingle-&s;oul con|&s;cience, which they call tender, with their Independent Pumps on; and again&s;t their pretended Liberty, to leap into our Trenches; without we joyn in our Re&s;olution again&s;t them of an Upright Occupation: they may Underlay us at la&s;t: <HI>Kiffin</HI> the Glover, had like even nigh to make us run mad with his Heretical Thimble: And <HI>Canne&mdash;</HI>that Inde|pendent Ring-leader, to &s;et up the Fift Monarchy, and his followers, will never leave fluttering about our Sconces, in a way of a Spye.</P>
<P>Nay the Sly <HI>Anabapti&s;t</HI> mu&s;t needs pretend Dipping, and &s;o &s;neak pri|viledges into us to ca&s;t our Water, that he may know where our &s;trength lyes.</P>
<P>And the poor Innocent <HI>Adamite,</HI> that is &s;tript of all fencing &s;tratagems; yet he is ever prepared to beat up our quarters; and having naked truth for his Standard, will often be ready to enter our &s;en&s;itive out-works.</P>
<P>The <HI>Seeker</HI> may di&s;turb our night-watch; being &s;ure groping in the dark; but their weak judgements will reach no further.</P>
<P>The <HI>Quakers</HI> who are now flouri&s;hing without colours; and indeed e|ven ready to affright us with their di&s;mall looks; yet we bid defiance to all &s;uch as quake, before they &s;cale our Wall.</P>
<P>And we further do Declare in &s;pite of all this Crew of Vermine, ac|cording to our Feminine faculty; we will keep them at a di&s;tantical po|&s;ture; Vowing a Maiden magnanimity, in oppo&s;ition to all Conventick|ling conjugations; &s;o &s;tanding upon the con&s;ciencious Liberty of our un|re&s;olved Virginity; We here unanimou&s;ly Vote, to render our &s;elves to the u&s;e afore&s;aid; for bringing in of the right Proprietor, which alone can &s;ettle us again&s;t the Fictions and Factions, which our Fle&s;h and Blood cannot endure.</P>
<P>Therefore &s;tand to it Fellow-doers and &s;ufferers.</P>
<CLOSER>And we &s;hall live and dye for you, &s;tand to you, and fall with you.</CLOSER>
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