title: The Gossips' Brawl, or The Women Wear the Breeches
title_page_title: The Gossips  BRAULE, OR, The WOMEN weare the <i>BREECHES.</i> A Mock COMEDY. [in single column, with some lines joined by pointed brackets] <i>The Actors  Names</i>, | { Nick Pot, <i>a Tapster.</i> | Jone Ruggles, <i>a Dungel-raker</i>. | Doll Crabb, <i>a Fish-woman</i>. | Megg Lant-Ale, <i>a Tub-woman</i>. | Bess  Bung-hole, <i>an Hostice</i>, } | WHO | <i>All to try the Mastery of their Tongues</i>, | <i>New wet their Whistles, Barley-Oyl their Lungs</i>, | <i>Then rais'd with Choller, Spleen and Gaule</i>, | <i>Their</i> Tongues <i>advance, and then begins the</i> Braule.
title_page_imprint: <i>LONDON</i>, Printed in the Year of Womens honesty, 1655.
paratext_charachter_list: on title page [A1r]
transcript_modern_spelling: The gossips' Brawl or the women wear the breeches a mock comedy the actors names Nick Pot a tapster joan Ruggles a dunghill-raker doll crab a fish woman meg lant-ale a tub woman Bess bunghole an hostess who all to try the mastery of their tongues new wet their whistles barley oil their lungs then raised with choler spleen and gall their tongues advance and then begins the brawl London printed in the year of women's honesty 1655