The Curtezan unmasked; or, The Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life / With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust.

Or, THE
—— Sanctum nihil est & ab inguine Tutum,
Non Matrona Laris, non Filia Virgo, neqq; ipse
Sponsus lævis adhuc, non Filius ante pudicus.
Juvenal. Satyr. 3.

The lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother then oyl: But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

That the short and transitory pleasures which the strange woman affords us, are accompanied with the sharpest and most permanent evils.
take a man in the act of Adultery, you may kill him without danger of punishment; Impunity was intailed upon the murther of him. You may observe, that this sin of Adultery is in Scripture called a sin of darkness ; intimating to us, how the Adulterer, asham'd of the light, sneaks up and down in obscure recesses, and is onely active and vigilant when others are quiet and taking their repose. Other sinners iniquities are in Scripture numbred by the hairs of the head; but we cannot number the Adulterers so, because as his sins increase his hairs do fall ; the Spring of his sins is his hairs Fall o' th' leaf . The second account upon which the Adulterer will conclude, That the transitory pleasures which the strange woman affords us are accompanied with the sharpest evils, is,
2. Because hee'l finde she will impair the health of his body; for though her Lips drop as an Honey-comb, and she distil the Quintessence of Rhetorick in every expression; though she does amorously caress and embrace him, yet 'tis but as the encircling Ivie does the Oak, to make him rot, wither, and decay.
Though he may think himself in Heaven, and imagine her curled Arms about him to be his Celestial Zodiack , yet hee'l (at length) finde them but as chains and fetters to enslave and captivate him to her insatiable Lust; the gratifications whereof whilest he endeavours to shew her, he must undergo as many gripes in his guilty Conscience, as Aches in his impure and vitious Body. She, it may be, will foment and cherish the flames of his Lust with these pleasing Blasts, by telling him that the Virgin Spring does not appear less chaste because many thirsts are there quenched; and that those Waters stink soon that continue long in one place, but remain sweet and wholsome whilest they leave one bank and kiss another. But let us (like a prudent Ulysses ) stop our ears to the fatal voice of this dangerous Siren , least, while we sail in the Ocean of this World, we suffer shipwrack of Grace and a good Conscience: Don't let us stand to dispute the case, and parley with her, but rather flie from her, and avoid her company: For, we must be extremely cold, not to be warmed by so