Cully

Yet the rich Cullies may their boaſting ſpare; / They purchaſe but ſophiſticated VVare.

I have learned that […] I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.

One [attitude] was a fascination with street-walkers and courtesans as self-confident entrepreneurs, able to outwit their simple cullies.

The assumption tends to be the opposite: Whores constantly seek sexual encounters to fulfill their burning desires and also sometimes manage to wheedle gold out of their cullies.