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Title: Advertisement No. 45

Author(s): Woodburn, David

Advertisement No. 45

Be it known to all honest men & bonny
Laſses that the [¿] Scarlet when it is given as a sentiment
[¿] Company of College-Gentlemen)
[¿] beginning with a C. & ending with a T., as
[¿] neither does it mean the Whore of Babylon
[¿] Maiden-head; neither does it signify
[¿] white and [Paſsionately] Black without
[¿] to red, but henceforth and forever
[¿] Cockscomb, and every man however ſober may
[¿] the future with a clean Conscience, even a
[¿] of henpecking his Superior Tutors
[¿] be a man of Italie Paſsions xxx

Beware of the man says [¿]
hearted Malbranche, who blackens o'er his [¿] and grows
pale in his paſsions, is the Moral of this Advertisment.