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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
2291(For any criminall breach of the highe
st Law)
2292After 'tis done: nay more, a voice as cleere
2293As that of Angels, which proclaimes the act,
2294Good, honourable, meritorious,
2295Lawfull, and pyous, what if I
shew you this?
2296
Cox:
Come, come, you cannot, then let riotous heires
2297beg pattents to kill fathers: graunt but this
2298Murder may be a faire Monopoly,
2300Who i'
st dare that thing meritorious call,
2301Which feindes themselues count diabolicall?
2303ronne vp to'th necke, from drowning to saue her,
2304That treades vpon your head; your throat, to
sincke you?
2307But death, di
shonour; yea, damnation
2310Is not more easy: looke vpon the Court,
2313Shee walkes not with a Ianisarie--Guard,
2316Like to a payre of hangmen: no, alas:
2317Her Courts of Guard are Ladies, & (sometimes)
2318Shee's in the garden with as small a trayne,
2319As is the Sun in heauen: and our Acce
s
s
e,
2320May then as easy be as that of Clyents,
2321To Lawyers out of terme--time.
2322
Coz:
Grant all this:
2325
Pari:
Nay, good cozen.----
2327By water: why the gates will all be lockt,
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