The Honest Whore.
413413Vpon his name and death, O would t'were true.
415415Duke May? how? I wi
sh his death.
416416Doctor And you may have your wi
sh:
say but the word,
417417And tis a
strong Spell to rip vp his grave:
418418I have good knowledge with
Hipolito;
419419He calls me
friend, Ile creepe into his bo
some,
420420And
sting him there to death; poi
son can doo't.
421421Duke Performe it; Ile create thee halfe mine heire.
422422Doctor It
shall be done, although the fa
ct be fowle.
423423Duke Greatnes hides
sin, the guilt vpon my
soule.
Exeunt 424424Enter Castruchio, Pioratto, and Fluello. 425425Cast: Signior
Pioratto,
signior
Fluello,
shalls be merry?
shalls
427427Flu: I, any thing that may beget the childe of laughter.
428428Cast: Truth I have a pretty
sportive conceit new crept into
429429my braine, will moove excellent mirth.
430430Pio: Lets ha't, lets ha't, and where
shall the
sceane of mirth
(lie? 431431Cast. At
signior
Candidoes hou
se, the patient man, nay the
432432mon
strous patient man; they
say his bloud is immoveable, that
433433he haz taken all patience
from a man, and all con
stancie
from
435435Flu. That makes
so many whoores nowadayes.
436436Cast. I, and
so many knaves too.
438438Cast. To conclude, the reporte goes, hees
so milde,
so a
ffa
- 439439ble,
so
su
ffering, that nothing indeede can moove him: now do
440440but thinke what
sport it will be to make this fellow (the mirror
441441of patience) as angry, as vext, and as madde as an Engli
sh cuc
- 443443Flu. O, twere admirable mirth, that
: but how wilt be done
445445Cast. Let me alone, I have a tricke, a conceit, a thing, a de
- 446446vice will
sting him yfaith, if he have but a thimblefull of blood
447447ins belly, or a
spleene not
so bigge as a taverne token.
448448Pio. Thou
stirre him? thou moove him? thou anger him?
449449alas, I know his approoved temper: thou vex him? why hee
450450haz a patieuce above mans iniuries
: thou maie
st sooner rai
se a
spleane