A nights search· Discovering the nature and condition of all sorts of night-walkers; with their associates. As also, the life and death of many of them. Together with divers fearfull and strange accidents, occasioned by such ill livers. Digested into a poeme by Humphry Mill.

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Author:	Mill, Humphrey, fl. 1646.
Title:	A nights search· Discovering the nature and condition of all sorts of night-walkers; with their associates. As also, the life and death of many of them. Together with divers fearfull and strange accidents, occasioned by such ill livers. Digested into a poeme by Humphry Mill.
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The Frontispeece explained.

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To the Right honourable, ROBERT Earle of Effex, Viscount Hereford, and Bouchier, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bouchier, and Lovaine.

To the Reader.

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prologue

A Nights Search.

SECTION 1. The character of a modest, wise Poet, with some touches by the way at his opposites; his happy end.

SECT. 2. Against lascivious Poets and poetry, and of the ill that is occasioned by such meanes.

SECT. 3. The wanton Poets Funerall.

SECT. 4. The Pimps complaint, the Bawds reply; he chan∣geth his course, she gets another; their life and death.

SECT. 5. Of two common whores, how they liv'd and did; and a pimping theise, his life and death.

SECT. 6. Course salutations betwixt a pennilesse letcher and his where that forsooke him.

SECT. 7. Of a child found murthered by a whore the mother of it.

SECT. 8. Of two brave Blades, that would hire a whore betwixt them by the yeare.

SECT. 9. A fruitlesse dehortation of a friend, to one that was undone by a whore.

SECT. 10. A fight betwixt two Pimps.

SECT. 11. A heape of Vassalls pleading for precedencis, and priority one against the other.

SECT. 12. The Devil's Vmpire; their causes; the feare∣full conclusion.

SECT. 13. Of an Irish Foot-mans entertainment in a bawdy house; and what miserie followed.

SECT. 14. Arabble of Cheaters in a two fold plot discovered.

SECT. 15. Of an outlandish Nunncrie that was a brothel∣house; and how discoverd.

SECT. 16. Of a Letcher, and how the Devill assum'd the shape of a Malesactresse that had been hang'd; and lay with him.

SECT. 17. Of a North-countrey mans meeting a trull: and how they were drunk together: his complaint.

SECT. 18. Of strange policies in a new∣found Bawd.

SECT. 19. Of a Hackney Hestis; the trade she drove; and how she ended.

SECT. 20. Of a Childe borne full of the pox: with a Satyre playing his part upon the Father.

SECT. 20. How a subtile Queane fained herselfe to be with childe by a man of qualitie; of her lying in, and how the plot was found out.

SECT. 22. How an old Bawd lay in for a young Whore: they are found and punished.

SECT. 23. Of a strumpet accusing others, and afterwards her selfe: her protestations.

SECT. 24. Of a teeme of hackney Jades, that use to goe coupled in the night along the street.

SECT. 25. An enquiry, after a yong man. that was led away with a whore from his master.

SECT. 26. Of a fight betwixta whore and her Money-lesse guest; and upon what termes they parted.

SECT. 27. Of the life, death, and funerall of a Gentleman, undone by a brood of vermin.

SECT. 28. Of an old man, wooing, and marrying of a yong girle; how they disagreed, and how she turn'd a whore.

SECT. 29. Of a proud, stately Harlot raised by her sin; how she rain'd divers; and of many passages in the prosecution of it.

SECT. 30. Of the woman dying with griefe; Her Funerall.

SECT. 31. The shamefull triumph of the Whore, the Prodigall, and the Pimp.

SECT. 32. How the prodig all was servile to his whore; with the condition of the Pimp.

SECT. 33. How a Whore drew her sister to lewdnesse; arguments on both sides.

SECT. 34. The ruine of the bawdy house, with its appurtenances.

SECT. 35. Of a Countrey Clowne, being cheated with marrying of a whore, &c.

SECT. 36. The disagreements of his members and faculties.

SECT. 37. Of a handsome cunning Whore, that had the Pox, and how she deceived her husband; and how she died.

SECT. 38. Observations from histories, of lascivious per∣sons, but chiefly from the collection of Cornelius Agrippa: abridged now for this purpose.

SECT. 39. Of a company of Roysters comming to a Stews, and chaffering with the Bawd for the Whores, as men doe for Iades in Smithfield, &c.

SECT. 40. Of a fearefull Iudgement that happened in the city of Angers in France upon three men; La Fontaine, and two other; how they lay with the Devill, and how they dyed.

SECT. 41. Of a young man that went to drinke with a whore, and how he was tempted, and gull'd.

SECT. 42. How he met with her again; of their discourse, and how he pawn'd her for a large reckoning.

SECT. 43. To a Fidler that was importunate to be entertain'd in a Taverne by two or three Gentlemen.

SECT. 44. To an impudent whore that came into an Inne, and clipt and kist a man before company.

SECT. 45. A Parley betweene Nature and Fame, about an insatiable man, and of a modest man, being abused by queanes.

SECT. 46. Of a mans discontent at his wifes lewdnesse: his travell into the Netherlands: and how his wife was married to another in his ab∣sence; and of his returne, and complaints thereupon.

SECT. 47. Of a man that fell to decay in the World, through his excesse; and how his wife turn'd Hackney, and he a Pander.

SECT. 48. Of a black impudent Slut that more a dressing of faire hayre on her head, and black patches on her wrinkled tallow-face; and her reply answered.

SECT. 49. Of a Band that hired a Maid, and not proving to her expectation, shee accuseth her of theft.

SECT. 50. The Confession of a theiving Whore, at the time of her Execution.

SECT. 51. Of a Prodigall Man that run out of all, and how his wife turn'd whore.

SECT. 52. Of a Whore proving with child, that laid it to many to get money.

SECT. 53. Of a man that was sick for another mans wife.

SECT. 54. Of a dunghill whore, and a pander; how they abused a man of worth; and how they suffer'd shame at last.

SECT. 54. Divers meanes prescribed to cure the sowle disease of lust, suting with all conditions of persons.

SECT. 56. The supposed railing objections, imprecations of the filthy brood, against the Author, and the Book.

SECT. 57. The railing Objections of an impious crew, answered.

SECT. 58. The charge to the Muse, at the entrance into her travels.

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