Note 938 — THE ROARING GIRL.
Reading edition
The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith. Commonly Called Mal Cutpurse. Exactly Collected and now Published for the Delight and Recreation of all Merry disposed Persons. London, 1662, 12mo. Prefixed to it is her portrait in a male dress (with an eagle, a lion, and an ape beside her), under which are these lines;
“See here the Presidesse o’th pilfring Trade,
Mercuryes second, Venus’s onely Mayd,
Doublet and breeches, in a Un’form dresse,
The Female Humurrist, a Kickshaw messe:
Heres no attraction that your fancy greets,
But if her Features please not, read her Feats.”
Of this rare and curious volume a portion at least seems to be authentic.