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1567[3.3]
3.3.0.11568Enter Bellafront with a lute; pen, ink and paper 1569being placed before her [on a table by Servants. She sings:]
The courtier始s flatt始ring jewels,
3.3.9.1She writes [but soon stops].
You, Goody Punk, subaudi Cockatrice! O, you始re a 1592sweet whore of your promise, are you not, think you? How 1593well you came to supper to us last night! Mew, a whore and 1594break her word! Nay, you may blush and hold down your 1595head at it well enough. 始Sfoot, ask these gallants if we stayed 1596not till we were as hungry as sergeants.
Ay, and their yeomen too.
Nay, faith, acquaintance, let me tell you you forgot 1599yourself too much. We had excellent cheer, rare vintage, 1600and were drunk after supper.
And when we were in our woodcocks, sweet 1602rogue, a brace of gulls dwelling here in the city came 1603in and paid all the shot.
3.3.24Mattheo
Pox on her! Let her alone.
O, I pray do, if you be gentlemen;
鈥業 am not what I was始! No, I始ll be sworn thou art not. 1612For thou wert honest at five, and now thou始rt a punk at 1613fifteen; thou wert yesterday a simple whore, and now thou始rt a 1614cunning cony-catching baggage today.
I始ll say I始m worse; I pray forsake me then.
[Aside] 始Sfoot, she gulls 始em the best! This is always 1636her fashion, when she would be rid of any 1637company that she cares not for, to enjoy mine alone.
What始s here? Instructions, admonitions, and 1639caveats? Come out, you scabbard of vengeance.
3.3.54.1[He grabs his scabbard.]
Fluello, spurn your hounds when they fist; you 1641shall not spurn my punk. I can tell you my blood is vexed.
Pox o始your blood! Make it a quarrel.
You始re a slave. Will that serve turn?
3.3.57.1[He draws; they fight.]
始Sblood, hold, hold!
Mattheo, Fluello, for shame, put up!
3.3.59.1[They sheathe their swords.]
Spurn my sweet varlet!
1647Bellafront
O how many, thus
Mattheo, we shall meet.
Ay, ay, anywhere, saving at church; pray take heed 1653we meet not there.
[To Bellafront] Adieu, damnation!
1655Castruccio
Cockatrice, farewell!
There始s more deceit in women than in hell.
3.3.67.1Exeunt [Castruccio, Fluello, and Pioratto].
Ha, ha, thou dost gull 始em so rarely, so naturally! If 1658I did not think thou hadst been in earnest! Thou art a sweet 1659rogue for始t, i始faith.
Why are not you gone too, Signor Mattheo?
How始s this?
Indeed I love you not, but hate you worse
Is始t possible to be impossible, an honest whore? I 1672have heard many honest wenches turn strumpets with 1673a wet finger; but for a harlot to turn honest is one of 1674Hercules始 labours. It was more easy for him in one night to 1675make fifty queans than to make one of them honest 1676again in fifty years. Come, I hope thou dost but jest.
始Tis time to leave off jesting; I had almost
1680Mattheo
God b始wi始 thee.
O, tempt no more women! Shun their weighty curse!
How, marry with a punk, a cockatrice, a 1688harlot? Marry faugh, I始ll be burnt through the nose first.
Why, la, these are your oaths! You love to undo us,
I始ll hear no more of this, this ground upon:
3.3.95.1Exit.
Thy lust and sin speak so much. Go thou, my ruin,
3.3.102.1[Exit.]