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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
154To make them dote on me.
155
Omn.
Lets heare no more.
156
Emp.
And that all Potentates that tread on earth,
157With our abhominations
should be drunke,
158And be by vs vndone.
159
Omn.
Weele heare no more.
161
1. King.
Say but the word, and weele turne home your wrōgs,
162In torne and bloody collours.
163
2. King.
All her bowers,
165Her lands pollution.
166
Omn.
Let's to armes.
167
Empr.
Stay: heare me:
168Her kingdome weares a girdle wrought of waues,
170No rockes are of more force: her Fairies hearts,
171Lie in inchanted towers (impregnable)
172No engine scales them. Therefore goe you three,
173Draw all your faces sweetly, let your browes
176Sweare you haue hils of pearle:
shew her the world,
178And doe vs reuerence: but if
shee grow nice,
180Shee goes vpon, and (like to serpents) creepe
181Vpon your bellies, in humilitie;
182And beg
shee would but with vs ioyne a league,
183To wed her land to ours: our ble
s
sing, goe.
184
3. King.
When mines are to be blowne vp, men dig low.
188
Manent 4. Cardinals, and certaine Priests.
190
2. Card.
Nor me.
3. Card.