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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
643And with vnbinding Subiects fealties,
644And with large pattents to kill Kings and Queens
645Driue roaring hither, that vpon their hornes
646This Empire may be to
st.
648Euen ioynt from ioynt: to haue her baited wel,
649(If we cannot) wee will vn-kennell hell:
650
1. King.
Will not you home with vs?
651
3. King.
No: here Ile lurke,
652And in a Doue-like
shape rauen vpon Doues:
654Poyson the Courtier with ambitious drugs,
655Throw bane into the cups where learning drinkes,
656Ile be a Saint, a Furie, Angell, Deuill,
657Or'e Seas, on this
side Seas; Deuils forreners,
658With Deuils within hel freedome, Deuils in Vaults.
659And with Church Deuil, be it your soules health,
660To drinke downe Babylonian Stratagems.
661And to forge three-forkt thunderbolts at home,
665Eightie eight Legions, and take open armes,
667
Omn.
Twi'll be a glorious warre.
668
1. King.
Farewell.
669
3. Kidg.
Bee gon,
671
Exeunt.
672
Fideli, Florimell, Parthenophill, Elfiron,
674Like hideous dreames, yet haue they left behind them,
675Throbs, and heart akings, in the generall boosome,
676As omynous bodings. Fairy Lackeyes.---
677
4. Footmen
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