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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
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308Gasparo the Duke, Doctor Benedict, two seruants.
309Duke Give charge that none do enter, locke the doores;
310And fellowes, what your eies and eares receave,
311Vpon your lives trust not the gadding aire:
313Doctor Heere my Lord.
317And leave the Christall banks of her white body
320Duke Vncurtaine her.
322Spreads over all her bodie.
323Doctor Now it workes:
326On her exterior parts, now gin to breake:
327Trouble her not my Lord.
332Mine owne downe twice, being put into one scale,
333And that fond desperate boy Hipolito,
334Making the weight vp, should not (at my hands)
335Buy her i'th tother, were her state more light
336Than hers, who makes a dowrie vp with almes.
B 2 Doctor
The converted Curtezan.
339Hipolito is nobly borne, a man;
340Did not mine enemies blood boile in his veines,
341Whom I would court to be my sonne in law?
343Are not with easie Arte made paralell.
345I charge you on your lives maintaine for truth,
347For you shall beare her hence to Bergamo
348Inf: Oh God, what fearefull dreames?
350Duke Girle.
355And when a cup crownde with thy lovers health
356Had toucht thy lips, a sencible cold dew
357Stood on thy cheekes, as if that death had wept
359Inf. I remember
362Came wildely in with this vnsavorie newes,
363That he was dead.
365Duke Hipolito, alacke, wring not thy hands.
369Duke La you now, tis well good knaves.
372Of this the bad report before did strike
373So coldly to thy heart, that the swift currents
374Of life were all frozen vp.
It
The converted Curtezan.
375Inf. It is vntrue,
378To fetch life backe againe.
381Sweate we not all? had we not much to do?
3822 Ser. Yes indeede my Lord, much.
384That were Hipolito alive agen,
385I'de kneele and woo the noble gentleman
386To be thy husband: now I fore repent
387My sharpenes to him, and his family;
388Nay, do not weepe for him, we all must die:
390His lively presence, hurts her, does it not?
392Duke It does, it does:
394Inf. Even where you will, in any place theres woe.
402This night to ride away to Bergamo.
405No words that she was buried on your lives,
407Ile hang you if you name a funerall.
409ly word.
412Did you observe how her complexion altered
B 3 Vpon
The converted Curtezan.
413Vpon his name and death, O would t'were true.
414Doctor It may my Lord.
417And tis a strong Spell to rip vp his grave:
418I have good knowledge with Hipolito;
421Duke Performe it; ile create thee halfe mine heire.