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• Prostitution -- England -- London -- Humor
• Prostitution -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800
• Prostitution -- England -- Humor -- Early works to 1800

• The sisters of the scabards holiday: or, a dialogue between two reverent and very vertuous matrons, Mrs. Bloomesbury, and Mrs. Long-Acre her neare neighbour. Wherein is discoursed how terrible, and costly the civill law was to their profession; and how they congatulate [sic] the welcome alteration. ([London : s.n.], Printed, 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Strange & true nevves from Jack-a-Newberries six windmills, or, The crafty, impudent, common-whore (turned bawd) anatomised and discovered in the unparralleld practises of Mris Fotheringham ... with five and twenty orders agreeed upon by consent of Mris Creswell, Betty Lawrence ... with divers others for establishing thereof / published by way of admonition to all persons to beware of that house of darkness ... by Peter Aretine, cardinall of Rome [pseud.] (V[e]nus [i.e. London?]: Printed for Rodericus e Castro, 1660), by Peter Aretine (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Midnight Spy: or, A View of the Transactions of London and Westminster From the Hours of Ten in the Evening, Till Five in the Morning, Exhibiting a Great Variety of Scenes in High and Low Life (London: Printed for J. Cooke, 1766), by John Cleland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fortunate laywer:, or, The young students new family. Being a pleasant and true relation of a young lawyer, who lately pickt up a Fleet-Street night-walker, and civilly handed her to his own private chamber, in an eminent inns of court; where after a whole night's dalliance she (with little trouble) presented him with a boy and a girle; who now lies-inn the lawyers chambers. (London : Printed for J. Sharp at the Cock and Fountain near Fleet-Street, 1695) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A dialogue between Mistris Macquerella, a suburb bawd, Ms Scolopendra, a noted curtezan, and Mr Pimpinello an usher, &c. Pittifully bemoaning the tenour of the Act (now in force) against adultery and fornication. (London : Printed for Edward Crowch, 1650) (HTML at EEBO TCP)