The house of correction: or, Certayne satyricall epigrams. Written by I.H. Gent. Together with a few characters, called Par pari: or, Like to like, quoth the deuill to the collier

A Curtezan is a Musi••ian.

WHo from her youth being brought vp to pricksong, hath lost no time, but is become a Woman of note. She learnt it of the Nigh∣tingale, and in imitati••n of he•• sleepes, alwaies a∣gainst a Prickle. She sings sometimes in Paris▪ but they are not much respected, because they are growne common; yet neuer was she put downe by any but onely in the closing, and the reason, as some say, is because she fals oftē too flat, she steales away your cares with her voice, and in the meane time hath ma∣ny crotchets in her head how to straine courtesie with your purse. A large and a long shee is well affected with; but a briefe or a sembriefe, nothing pleaseth

her. Of all Instruments she loues not the Recorder because it makes her too melancholy. Shee hath playd at many a Marriage, yet neuer could affect the Bride-well, although shee hath beene paid largely for her paine. Imitating the ancient Poets, she sings her Poems in Cars, and the people being much deligh∣ted therewith, for the maintainance of her voyce, haue bestowed many an Egge vpon her, which oftentimes haue proued as rotten as her selfe. Faine would she haue beene a Quarrister at Pauls, but that she loues not to stand in a Surplisse: yet many times she repayres thither, especially vnto the lower end of the Middle Ile. She is neuer out of the moods but when she meetes with a Be••dle or Constable, and then shee begins to quarter, because shee feareth to sing a Counter tenor. If you have a desire to heare her, eyther shee is gone to Lambeth to take the ayre; or else you shall meete her at the next Tauerne with her conserts.