THE HONEST WHORE.
10931095As many by one harlot, maym'd and di
smembred,
10941096As would ha
stuft an Ho
spitall: this
I might
10951097Apply to you, and perhaps doe you right:
10961098O y'are as ba
se as any bea
st that beares,
10971099Your body is ee'ne hirde, and
so are theirs.
10981100For gold and
sparkling iewels, (if he can)
10991101Youle let a
Iewe get you with chri
stian:
11001102Be he a Moore, a Tartar, tho his face
11011103Looke vglier then a dead mans
scull,
11021104Could the diuel put on a humane
shape,
11031105If his pur
se
shake out crownes, vp then he gets,
11041106Whores will be rid to hell with golden bits:
11051107So that y'are crueller then Turkes, for they
11061108Sell Chri
stians onely, you
sell your
selues away.
11071109Why tho
se that loue you, hate you
: and will terme you
11081110Lickeri
sh damnation: wi
sh them
selues halfe
sunke
11091111After the
sin is laid out, and ee'ne cur
se
11101112Their
fruitle
sse riot, (for what one begets
11111113Another poi
sons) lu
st and murder hit,
11121114A tree being often
shooke, what
fruit can knit?
11151117A harlot is like
Dunkirke, true to none,
11161118Swallowes both Engli
sh, Spani
sh, ful
some Dutch,
11171119Blacke-doord Italian, la
st of all the
French,
11181120And he
sticks to you faith
: giues you your diet,
11191121Brings you acquainted,
fir
st with mon
sier Do
ctor,
11201122And then you know what followes.
11221124Ranke,
stinking, and mo
st loath
some mi
sery.
11231125Hip. Me thinks a toad is happier then a whore,
11241126That with one poi
son
swells, with thou
sands more
11251127The other
stocks her veines: harlot:
fie!
fie,
11261128You are the mi
serable
st Creatures breathing,
11271129The very
slaues of nature: marke me el
se,
11281130You put on rich attires, others eyes weare them,
11291131You eat, but to
supply your blood with
sin,
11301132And this
strange cur
se ee'ne haunts you to your graues.
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