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 Brome); land-carrack (Davenant); laundress (Brereton, Burton, Davenant); left-handed wife (Killigrew); leman; lift-skirts; ligby; light-frigate; light-heels; light-o'-love (Nash, Fletcher); light skirts; lindabrides (Killigrew, Scott); lioness (Davies); little girl; lone duck (or dove); loose woman; loose-bodied gown (Dekker); loose kirtle; loteby (Chaucer).

Mab; mackerel (q.v.); madam (Randolph, Durfey); Madam Van (or Ran); magdalen (Congreve); maggie; magpie; maid marian (Shakspeare); maid-of-all-work; mare; mark (q.v.); market-dame (Ward); maux (or mawkes); mean bit (mean, q.v.); mermaid (Middleton); merry-bit; merry-arsed Christian (Grose: also of a wencher); merry-legs; Messalina; minx (Florio, Shakspeare); miss (Evelyn, Butler, Dryden); mistress; miss-*woman (or missliver: Tyndale); mob; moll (Grose); molly (Durfey); mollisher; moonlighter; mopsy; morsel (Dunbar, Shakspeare, Marmion); mort (Dekker, Middleton, Jonson, Fletcher, etc.); mort wap-apace; moth; mother (or mother of the maids); mount; Mrs Lukey Props (a tramp's bawd); mutton (generic: Greene, Shakspeare, cum suis); mutton-broker.

Nag (Marston, Shakspeare); nanny; natural (Shadwell); naughty dickey-bird; naughty-pack (Addlington, Rowley, Swift, etc.); necessary; needlewoman (Carlyle); nestcock; nescock; nestlecock (Fuller); niece; niggler; night-bird; night-cap; night-gear; night-hawk; night-hunter; nightingale; night-piece; night-poacher; night-shade (Fletcher); night-snap; night-trader (Massinger); night-walker (Durfey); nit; nockstress; nocturne; noffgur; nug; nun (Foote); nurse; nymph of darkness (or of the pavement).

Occupant (Marston); omnibus; one of my cousins (of us, of them); one and thirty; open-arse (Shakspeare); out; owl.

Pack; pagan (Shakspeare, Massinger); palliasse; panel; paphian; parnel (or pernel: Langland); particular; partridge; peculiar (Herrick); perfect lady; petticoat (Dekker, Prior, Smollett); pheasant; Phryne; pick-up; piece (Shakspeare, Jonson, Smollett); pillow-mate; pinch-prick; pinnace (Dekker, Congreve); pintle-bit (fancier, maid, or ranger); piper's wife; pirate; placket (Shakspeare); placket-lady; play-fellow (Shakspeare); plaything (Smollett); pleasure-lady (or merchant); plover (Jonson); poke; poker; poker-breaker; pole-climber; pole-cat (Shakspeare); poll; polly; princess; presbyteress (Bale); presenterer; prancer; pretty dear (Smollett); pretty horsebreaker; prick-climber; priest's niece; prim; pross; prugge; public ledger; pug (Marston, Cotgrave, Dryden); punk (Shakspeare, cum suis); pure; purest pure; pure one; Puritan; purse-finder; pusher; put; puttock; puzzle.

Quædam; quail; quean; queen's (or king's) woman; quiet mouse; quicumque vult.