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the career of one who was neither man nor woman, and yet both. After a
while, however, the petticoat seemed too tame for her stalwart temper, and
she exchanged it for the great Dutch slop, habited in which unseemly
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four great parishes,’ says the wit in the comedy, `and a voice that will
drown all the city.’ If a gallant stood in the way, she drew upon him in an
instant, and he must be a clever swordsman to hold his ground against the
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between a Dutchman’s fingers.’ Now at Parker’s Ordinary, now at the
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in disgrace or even jeopardised her freedom; but her unchanging gaiety
made light of disaster, and still she laughed and rollicked in defiance of
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Her companion in many a fantastical adventure was Banks, the vintner
of Cheapside, that same Banks who taught his horse to dance and shod
him with silver. Now once upon a time a right witty sport was devised
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The hoyden took him up in a moment, and added of her own devilry a
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a trumpeter being an unwonted spectacle, the eyes of all the town were
clapped upon her. Yet none knew her until she reached Bishopsgate,
where an orange-wench set up the cry, `Moll Cutpurse on horseback!’
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