well pleased with my foolish urbanity, replied, and why, sir, should I not tell?  With that she rose up and went before me.  I took her for a wise woman, and by-and-by she led me into a by-lane, and told me there I should dwell.  I replied again, I knew not the house; but I perceived, on a sudden, by the naked queans, that I was now come into a bawdy-house, and then too late I began to curse the treachery of this old jade.”  Such tricks you shall have in many places, and amongst the rest it is ordinary in Venice, and in the island of Zante, for a man to be bawd to his own wife.  No sooner shall you land or come on shore, but, as the Comical Poet hath it,

[5212] “Morem hunc meretrices habent,
        Ad portum mittunt servulos, ancillulas,
        Si qua peregrina navis in portum aderit,
        Rogant cujatis sit, quod ei nomen siet,
        Post illae extemplo sese adplicent.”

These white devils have their panders, bawds, and factors in every place to seek about, and bring in customers, to tempt and waylay novices, and silly travellers.  And when they have them once within their clutches, as Aegidius Mascrius in his comment upon Valerius Flaccus describes them, [5213]"with promises and pleasant discourse, with gifts, tokens, and taking their opportunities, they lay nets which Lucretia cannot avoid, and baits that Hippolitus himself would swallow; they make such strong assaults and batteries, that the goddess of virginity cannot withstand them:  give gifts and bribes to move Penelope, and with threats able to terrify Susanna.  How many Proserpinas, with those catchpoles, doth Pluto take?  These are the sleepy rods with which their souls touched descend to hell; this the glue or lime with which the wings of the mind once taken cannot fly away; the devil’s ministers to allure, entice,” &c.  Many young men and maids, without all question, are inveigled by these Eumenides and their associates.  But these are trivial and well known.  The most sly, dangerous, and cunning bawds, are your knavish physicians, empirics, mass-priests, monks, [5214] Jesuits, and friars.  Though it be against Hippocrates’ oath, some of them will give a dram, promise to restore maidenheads, and do it without danger, make an abortion if need be, keep down their paps, hinder conception, procure lust, make them able with Satyrions, and now and then step in themselves.  No monastery so close, house so private, or prison so well kept, but these honest men are admitted to censure and ask questions, to feel their pulse beat at their bedside, and all under pretence of giving physic.  Now as for monks, confessors, and friars, as he said,

[5215] “Non audet Stygius Pluto tentare quod audet
        Effrenis monachus, plenaque fraudis anus;”

       “That Stygian Pluto dares not tempt or do,
        What an old hag or monk will undergo;”

either for himself to satisfy his own lust; for another, if he be hired thereto, or both at once, having such excellent means.  For under colour of visitation, auricular confession, comfort and penance, they have free egress and regress, and corrupt, God knows, how many.  They can such trades, some of them, practise physic, use exorcisms, &c.