THE HONEST WHORE.
11311133From fooles you get, and
spend it vpon
slaues:
11321134Like Beares and Apes, y'are bayted and
shew tricks
11331135For money; but your Bawd the
sweetne
sse licks.
11341136Indeed you are their Iourney-women, and doe
11351137All ba
se and damnd workes they li
st set you to:
11361138So that you n'ere are rich; for doe but
shew me,
11371139In pre
sent memory, or in ages pa
st,
11381140The fayre
st and mo
st famous Courtezan,
11391141Who
se
fle
sh was dear'
st; that rai
sd the price of
sin,
11401142And held it vp; to who
se intemperate bo
some,
11411143Princes, Earles, Lords, the wor
st has bin a knight,
11421144The mean'
st a Gentleman, haue o
ffred vp
11431145Whole Hecatombs of
sighs, & raind in
showres
11441146Handfuls of gold, yet for all this, at la
st 11451147Di
sea
ses
suckt her marrow, then grew
so poore,
11461148That
she has begd, e'ene at a beggers doore.
11471149And (wherin heau'n has a
singer) when this Idoll,
11481150From coa
st to coa
st, has leapt on forrayne
shores,
11491151And had more wor
ship, thē th'outlandi
sh whores:
11501152When
seuerall Nations haue gone ouer her,
11511153When for eache
seuerall City
she has
seene,
11521154Her Maydenhead has bin new, & bin
sold deare:
11531155Did liue wel there, & might haue dyde vnknown,
11541156And vndefam'd; back comes
she to her owne,
11551157And there both mi
serably liues and dyes,
11561158Scornd euen of tho
se, that once ador'd her eyes,
11571159As if her fatall-circled life, thus ranne,
11581160Her pride
should end there, where it
fir
st began.
11591161What do you weepe to heare your Story read?
11601162Nay, if you
spoyle your cheeks, Ile read no more.
11621164Indeed 'twill do me good to weepe indeed.
11631165Hip. To giue tho
se teares a relli
sh, this I adde,
11641166Y'are like the Iewes,
scatterd, in no place certain,
11651167Your daies are tedious, your houres burden
some:
11661168And wer't not for full
suppers, midnight Reuels,
11671169Dauncing, wine, ryotous meetings, which doe drowne,
11681170And bury quite in you all vertuous thoughts,
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