Not Peer Reviewed
The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
912Where beggers once take almes, they looke for't euer.
914
Pary.
Tenne yeares.
916To let you goe with life, that
should want liuing,
917What is it we can grant you.
918
Pary.
I ha beene by two great Fayries in your land,
921That all my happy thoughts lie in the du
st,
923Begge I your gratious leaue that I may vary,
924This natiue Aire for Forren.
925
Tita.
Oh you would trauell,
926You may, you haue our leaue: Challenge our hand.
928
Fideli Florimell.
933
Tita.
What people are they?
934
Fidel.
Neighbours: tis the nation, The Netherlanders.
935With whome our Faries enterchange commerce,
936And by negotiation growne so like vs,
937That halfe of them are Fayries: th'other halfe
938Are hurtfull Spirits, that with sulphurous breath
939Bla
st their corne feilds, deface their temples, cloth
940their townes in mourning, poyson hallowed founts,
942Full of dead bodies, or (like pallaces,
943From whence the Lords are gone) all desolate.
944They haue but 17. danghters young and faire,
945Vowd to liue ve
stalls, and to know the touch
946Of any forced or vnreuerend hand.
947Yet Lu
st and Auarice (to get their dowers)
949Threaten to raui
sh them, to make their bodies
950The temples of polution, or their bedds,
Graues