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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Male and Female Husband;</HEAD>
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<P>OR, A Strange and Wonderful Relation how a Midwife living at St. <HI>Albans,</HI> being brought to Bed of an <HI>Hermophrodite,</HI> brought it up in Womans Apparel, and carryed it with her as her Deputy to be a&s;&s;i&s;ting at the Labours of &s;everal Women, going under the Name of <HI>Mary Iewit:</HI> And how at la&s;t a di&s;covery of it was made by its Lying with a maid, and getting her with-Child, whom the &s;aid <HI>Hermophrodite</HI> was thereup|on obliged to marry: With a particular account of the Trades and Imployments it was put to during its Minority. With &s;everal plea&s;ant pa&s;&s;ages that happened.</P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>What &s;hall I do, &s;hall I dye for Love,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>COme li&s;ten all unto my Song,</L>
<L>for why it is mo&s;t true;</L>
<L>The like whereof you &s;eldom heard,</L>
<L>or yet but rarely knew:</L>
<L>A Midwife in St. <HI>Albans</HI> lives,</L>
<L>who&s;e name I &s;hall not cite:</L>
<L>For &s;ome Years pa&s;t, &s;he's brought to Bed</L>
<L>of an <HI>Hermophrodite.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which &s;he in Female habit dre&s;t,</L>
<L>that it might not be known;</L>
<L>And &s;o for many Years none knew</L>
<L>but it that Sex did own:</L>
<L>For why as it grew up in Years,</L>
<L>it with her oft did go</L>
<L>To womens labours, that her skill</L>
<L>&s;he might <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 word"> it &s;how</L>
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<LG>
<L>And let it oft with women lye,</L>
<L>who knew not that it bore</L>
<L>Of either Sex a &s;ignal mark,</L>
<L>and had each thing in &s;tore:</L>
<L>And oft with Maids it us'd to be,</L>
<L>but long time did refrain</L>
<L>From the kind feats of <HI>Venus</HI> &s;port,</L>
<L>for fear they &s;hould complain.</L>
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<LG>
<L>A Females name indeed it had,</L>
<L>and <HI>Mary Jewit</HI> call'd,</L>
<L>And &s;o for many Years was thought,</L>
<L>e're it could be inthrall'd:</L>
<L>But at the la&s;t being lu&s;ty grown,</L>
<L>when as the Mother went</L>
<L>To lay a Woman, with the Maid</L>
<L>in Bed &s;ome nights it &s;pent.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And it's Male-in&s;truments &s;o us'd,</L>
<L>the wrench prov'd great with-child,</L>
<L>When being tax'd who got the &s;ame,</L>
<L>&s;he blu&s;h'd, and an&s;wered mild,</L>
<L>The feigned Female that did come</L>
<L>with Mother-Midnight, why</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he had Male-parts as well</L>
<L>as Female 'twixt the Thighs.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And that it being lu&s;ty grown,</L>
<L>&s;urpriz'd her in her &s;leep,</L>
<L>She nothing dreaming of the thing,</L>
<L>it 'twixt her Legs did creep:</L>
<L>Which on a &s;udden wakeing, &s;he</L>
<L>&s;hrieks and Starts with fear;</L>
<L>But all in vain, for it was fa&s;t</L>
<L>lock'd in her Virgin-geer.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And after that &s;ome other Nights</L>
<L>they did both &s;port and play;</L>
<L>The wench being familiar grown,</L>
<L>&s;aid not the Mon&s;ter nay;</L>
<L>But in &s;hort time &s;he's big with-child</L>
<L>by this both-Sexed thing;</L>
<L>For which &s;ome folks &s;trait her before</L>
<L>a Iu&s;tice then did bring.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And there &s;he &s;et the Story forth,</L>
<L>which made &s;ome women &s;mile,</L>
<L>To think how with a double-Sex</L>
<L>Dame Mid-night did beguile:</L>
<L>Whil&s;t others blu&s;h'd to think how it</L>
<L>Natures great Bu&s;ine&s;s &s;aw:</L>
<L>VVhich to the Female-&s;ex alone,</L>
<L>is common by their Law.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Nor would they be at all convinc'd,</L>
<L>until a &s;earch was made:</L>
<L>For why the &s;uppos'd La&s;s did learn,</L>
<L>long-time a <HI>Semp&s;ters</HI> Trade:</L>
<L>But the good women having &s;earcht</L>
<L>did find each Member good:</L>
<L>And that <HI>Rogero</HI> 'bove the Cleft,</L>
<L>mo&s;t firm and &s;toutly &s;tood.</L>
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<LG>
<L>When on their words the Iu&s;tice then</L>
<L>did bid them both agree:</L>
<L>for &s;ince the wench was got with child</L>
<L>they both mu&s;t married be,</L>
<L>To which our Hermophrodite</L>
<L>did give his free, con&s;ent:</L>
<L>And changing habit for a man,</L>
<L>he to the Church &s;traight went.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Having &s;ince learn'd the Gentle-craft</L>
<L>though Craft he had before,</L>
<L>And could the feats of either Sex</L>
<L>perform and keep in &s;tore.</L>
<L>But now to <HI>London</HI> they are come,</L>
<L>as many does &s;u&s;pect:</L>
<L>There to &s;et up a wicked Trade,</L>
<L>and Mode&s;ty neglect.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Printed for <HI>P. Brooksby,</HI> at the Golden-<HI>ball</HI> in We&s;t-&s;mithfield.</HI></P>
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