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- Edition: The Honest Whore, Part 2
The Honest Whore, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1630)
- 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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2051Enter the Duke, Lodouico, and Orlando: after them Infaelice.
2052Carolo, Astolfo, Beraldo, Fontinell.
2055an old Seruingman: yet good my Lord discouer not the plot
2056to any, but onely this Gentleman that is now to be an
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2065be nibbling at my gold, but this shal hang him by'th gills, till
2066I pull him on shore.
2068Orl. Thankes to your Grace: but my good Lord, for my
2069Daughter.
2073by a hundred Eunuches.
2075Orl. He's a Turke that makes any woman a Whore, hee's
2080Orl. Frisking agen, Pacheco?
2085Coneyes will we ferret into the pursenet.
2086Orl. Let me alone for dabbing them o'th necke: come,
2087come.
2088Lod. Doe ye heare, Gallants? meet me anon at Matheos.
2091Onely his tunes are, that she is no Whore,
2093Out of a Noble Triumph o're his Lust,
2097Infae. And it may be my husband,
2098Because when once this woman was vnmaskt,
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2099He leueld all her thoughts, and made them fit:
2100Now he'd marre all agen, to try his wit.
2105Tho 'twere impiety then to dim her light,
2107Yet 'tis the pride and glory of some men,
2108To change her to a blazing Starre agen,
2109And it may be, Hipollito does no more.
2110It cannot be, but y'are acquainted all
2112That dotes so on a Curtizan.
2113Omnes. Yes, my Lord.
2114Car. All the City thinkes he's a Whoremonger.
2119teene Bearewarders.
2121You might be all smelt out.
2122Car. Troth my Lord, I thinke we are all as you ha bin in
2123your youth when you went a Maying, we all loue to heare
2124the Cuckoo sing vpon other mens Trees.
2126Shall not be parted with a Curtizan--- 'tis strange,
2128(My abused child, his wife) no care of fame,
2129Of Honor, Heauen or Hell, no not that name
2130Of Common Strumpet, can affright, or woo
2131Him to abandon her; the Harlot does vndoe him,
2132She has bewitched him, robd him of his shape,
2134You see he lookes wild, does he not?
2135Car. I ha noted new Moones
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2136In's face, my Lord, all full of change.
2137Duke. He's no more life vnto Hipollito,
2138Then dead men are to liuing -- neuer sleepes,
2139Or if he doe, it's dreames; and in those dreames
2140His armes worke, -- and then cries--Sweet--what's her
2141Name, what's the drabs name?
2142Ast. In troth, my Lord, I know not,
2143I know no drabs, not I.
2148deepe.
2151(To purge our Citty Millan, and to cure the outward
2152Parts, the Suburbes) for the attaching
2153Of all those women, who (like gold) want waight,
2156But what's your Graces reach in this?
2159Euer t' approach one of such noted name.
2161Duke. Yet on Harlots heads
2163Giue to those that haunt them, that Hipollito
2164(If not for feare of Law) for loue to her,
2165If he loue truely, shall her bed forbeare.
2166Car. Attach all the light heeles i'th Citty, and clap em vp?
2167why, my Lord? you diue into a Well vnsearchable: all the
2168Whores within the walls, & without the walls? I would not
2171within this Citty, and to leaue not a drinking roome in any
2172Tauerne besides.
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2177Car. Araigne the poore Whore.
2179Font. Nor I.
2180Ber. Nor I,