Tenderhanded, press a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Press it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains : So it is with vulgar natures, Treat them kindly they repel, — Use them rough, like nutmeg graters, And the rogues will serve you well.

A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag.

In the much-plagiarized A Manifest Detection of the most vile and detestable use of Dice-play [1552] the probable author, Gilbert Walker, recounts this anecdote of an old bawd who attempts to revirginate one of her girls to trick a gull who who insists upon bedding only virgins: "This Mother Bawd undertook to serve his turn according to his desire, and having at home a well-painted, mannerly harlot, as good a maid as Fletcher's mare, that bare three great foals, went in the morning to the apothecary's for half a pint of sweet water, that commonly is called surfling water, or clinker-device, and on the way homeward turned into a nobleman's house to visit his cook, and old acquaintance of hers.

You here see that unfortunate divine, who has so long , and it would ill become me to say , successfully , fought against the deuterogamy of the age