To a Poor Whore, Who Would Fain Have Father'd a Pox on Him
To cure your Ails, you me in a Sweat
By a Demand which, as your Ails, is great;
And since you can no Bastard to me lay,
You for another's Pox would have me pay.
But your Disasters, that are got at large,
Must e'en be patch'd up at the Publick Charge.
No private Man, in Conscience, should relieve
A Pox which Parishes have club'd to give.
From baudy Justices expect Relief,
And, as for other Fires, procure a Brief.
Since publick as Highways and Streets you are,
The Publick ought to keep you in Repair:
A Common Woman, like the Common Shore,
Should be repair'd upon the Common Score.
By a Demand which, as your Ails, is great;
And since you can no Bastard to me lay,
You for another's Pox would have me pay.
But your Disasters, that are got at large,
Must e'en be patch'd up at the Publick Charge.
No private Man, in Conscience, should relieve
A Pox which Parishes have club'd to give.
From baudy Justices expect Relief,
And, as for other Fires, procure a Brief.
Since publick as Highways and Streets you are,
The Publick ought to keep you in Repair:
A Common Woman, like the Common Shore,
Should be repair'd upon the Common Score.
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