On Gipsy

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On Gipsy by Ben Jonson

XLI. ? ON GIPSY.       GIPSY, new bawd, is turn'd physician, And gets more gold than all the College can : Such her quaint practice is, so it allures, For what she gave, a whore ;  a bawd, she cures.

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