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Nell Gwyn

“Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore.”
- Nell Gwyn,
- in Peter Cunningham, The Story of Nell Gwyn and the Sayings of Charles II (1892)
“[Refusing a lover after the death of Charles II:] Shall the dog lie where the deer once couched?”
- Nell Gwyn

Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II

(1650 - 1687)

Full name: Eleanor Gwyn (sometimes spelled Gwynn or Gwynne).