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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CITIZENS REPLY To the Whores Petition, AND Prentices An&s;wer.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>NOw that you two have made your grievance known,</L>
<L>In the third place, pray let our cau&s;e be &s;hown,</L>
<L>The Proverb &s;ays <HI>give leo&s;ers leave to &s;peak</HI></L>
<L>And by that rule wee may a freedome take;</L>
<L>For why we &s;uffer in our Reputation,</L>
<L>Such things &s;hould acted be in this our nation,</L>
<L>A City fame'd through <HI>Europes</HI> Continent</L>
<L>To be the Prime for civil Government;</L>
<L>And that a Rout under <HI>Prentices</HI> names</L>
<L>Should act &s;uch things as tho&s;e unto our &s;hames</L>
<L>VVe cannot but bewail, and henceforth &s;hall</L>
<L>Strive to redre&s;s, and to prevent them all.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t you who think your &s;elves ith wrong'd condition</L>
<L>And therefore take upon you to <HI>Petition,</HI></L>
<L>VVe do believe your Io&s;&s;es to be great,</L>
<L>And don't approve of them that did the feat;</L>
<L>Yet let us tell you too, your vices were</L>
<L>Far greater then the lo&s;s fell to your &s;hare;</L>
<L>Your actions to &s;uch height of ill did bend</L>
<L>You <HI>well</HI> might think that <HI>ill</HI> would be the end.</L>
<L>You are the Citties <HI>Pe&s;t-hou&s;e,</HI> Suburbs <HI>&s;inks,</HI></L>
<L>And what proceeds from <HI>&s;inks</HI> but na&s;ty <HI>&s;tinks?</HI></L>
<L>What can expected be from &s;uch as doe</L>
<L>Sin with delight, but mi&s;ery and woe?</L>
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<LG>
<L>Complain not then, your &s;elves may rather blame,</L>
<L>It was your impudence that cau&s;ed the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Strive to get goods by what is lawful means,</L>
<L>And think not to grow rich by being <HI>Queans;</HI></L>
<L>"That never thrives which is artain'd by ill,</L>
<L>"A little evil got much con&s;ume will.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Forbear henceforth then to commit &s;uch facts</L>
<L>You &s;ee the con&s;equence of &s;uch bad acts,</L>
<L>"Shame and confu&s;ion alwayes is the end,</L>
<L>"Of that which unto vice and &s;inne doth tend.</L>
<L>Then next to you who &s;et the boys on work,</L>
<L>(Who litle thought &s;uch mi&s;cheif in't did lurke)</L>
<L>You who act mi&s; heif in <HI>Prentices</HI> names</L>
<L>Thinking upon them for to put the blames;</L>
<L>VVho by pretence of puni&s;hing of <HI>Whores</HI></L>
<L>Doe rob and &s;teal from them their wealth and &s;tores,</L>
<L>VVho knowes what mi&s;cheif might by this aro&s;e</L>
<L>VVhen faction did with in&s;urrection clo&s;e;</L>
<L>Sad might it prov'd if you had been cemented</L>
<L>'Dangers fore&s;een are ea&s;ie&s;t prevented</L>
<L>Tis good to cru&s;h the <HI>Serpents</HI> in the Eggs,</L>
<L>Before &s;uch mi&s;cheif &s;tands too firm on legs;</L>
<L>Some little dreaming harm may be drawn in</L>
<L>And fo be puni&s;ht for anothers &s;in,</L>
<L>They &s;uffer may for all their harmle&s;s <HI>Looks;</HI></L>
<L>"VVhat has the <HI>Daws</HI> to doe among the <HI>Rooks;</HI></L>
<L>Keep far from &s;uch then as doe move &s;edition,</L>
<L>"By giving Countenance you give Commi&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>"It is encouragement to tho&s;e uncivil</L>
<L>"For to look on and not correct their evil.</L>
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<LG>
<L>You raile on VVhores, tis true, they bad do live;</L>
<L>And yet your &s;elves as bad example give.</L>
<L>VVill you in &s;uch contempt and rudene&s;s &s;tand</L>
<L>To &s;eek to wre&s;t the &s;word from <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> hand?</L>
<L>VVhat can be thought of &s;uch a bold intru&s;ion</L>
<L>But that it will bring all unto confu&s;ion.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Sad may we think will prove that fatall day</L>
<L>When a rude rout takes on them to bear &s;way.</L>
<L>Such actions mu&s;t needs &s;hipwrack on the &s;helves,</L>
<L>VVho'd puni&s;h <HI>Theft</HI> and be &s;trong <HI>Thieves</HI> them&s;elves,</L>
<L>Do you your &s;elves in compa&s;s fair demean</L>
<L>Ju&s;tice will puni&s;h them which is ob&s;cene,</L>
<L>Should Ju&s;tice chance to wink, tis tumults cur&s;e</L>
<L>To puni&s;h Vice by that which is fat wor&s;e;</L>
<L>Tumults in time may to Rebellion come</L>
<L>Mi&s;cheifs doe after mi&s;cheifs &s;wiftly run.</L>
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<LG>
<L>So to conclude, lets wi&s;h you to beware,</L>
<L>And in your actions have a better care,</L>
<L>Though &s;ome by fair delu&s;ions in would creep,</L>
<L>There's difference will be found t'wixt <HI>Swine</HI> and <HI>Sheeps</HI></L>
<L>And tho&s;e who &s;eek by Boyes to make foul ends</L>
<L>May find the hangman prove their fa&s;te&s;t friends,</L>
<L>Let in&s;urrections have the <HI>Tiburn</HI> &s;wing,</L>
<L>VVe for our parts doe cry, <HI>God &s;ave the KING.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed 1668.</P>
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