Title: | The Gossips braule, or the women weare the breeches. A mock comedy. The actors names, Nick Pot, a tapster. Jone Ruggles, a dungel-raker. Doll Crabb, a fish-woman. Megg Lant-Ale, a tub-woman. Bess Bung-hole, an hostice, who all to try the mastery of their tongues, new wet their whistles, barley-oyl their lungs, then rais'd with choller, spleen and gaule, their tongues advance, and then begins the braule. |
Note: | London, : [s.n.], Printed in the Year of Womens honesty, 1655 |
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Subject: | Satire, English -- 17th century |
Subject: | Women -- Humor -- Early works to 1800 |
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