(1) She is put in the charge of a kind-hearted trull , ‘whose business it was to prepare and break such young Fillies as I was to the mounting-block’.(2) It included the insults jade, quean, baggage, harlot, drab, filth, flirt, gill, trull , dirtyheels, draggletail, flap, naughty-pack, slut, squirt and strumpet.(3) Ultimately, however, the poet objects far less to her supposedly natural feminine sluttishness than to her apparently unnatural intellectual pursuits: ‘Women grown intellectual grow dull, / And lose the mother wit of natural trull ’.
