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- Edition: The Honest Whore, Part 1
The Honest Whore, Part 1 (Quarto 2, 1604)
- Introduction
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- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Acknowledgements
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- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Abbreviations
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- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Introduction
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- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Analysis of the Plays
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- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: The Plays in Performance
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- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Textual Introduction
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- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Appendices
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- Texts of this edition
- Facsimiles
The conuerted Courtizan.
1398Wife. Come not to me for any Key.
1399Ile not be troubled to deliuer it.
1400Cand. Good wife, kind wife, it is a needfull trouble,
1401but for my Gowne.
1403You set my teeth an edge with talking on't.
1408Without his Robe of reuerence, that's his Gowne.
1410You get nor key, nor gowne, and so depart:
1413My cloke's too short: fye, fye, no cloke will doo't:
1415With my armes out: oh George, come hither George,
1416I prythee lend me thine aduice.
1420'Twould shew impatience that, any meeke meanes
1421I would be glad to imbrace. Masse, I haue got it:
1422Go, step vp, fetch me downe one of the Carpets,
1424Cut thou a hole ith middle for my necke,
1425Two for mine armes, nay prythee looke not strange.
1427Can. Prythee about it quickly, the houre chides me:
1429Out of two euils hee's accounted wise,
1431For an vngowned Senator, is about
1432Forty Cruzadoes, the Carpet not 'boue foure.
Cand. O