THE HONEST WHORE.
13981398Wife. Come not to me for any key.
13991399Ile not be troubled to deliuer it.
14001400Cand. Good wife, kind wife, it is a needfull trouble,
14021402Wife. Mothes
swallow downe your gowne:
14031403you
set my teeth an edge with talking on't.
14041404Cand. Nay prythee,
sweet, I cannot meet without it,
14051405I
should haue a great
fine
set on my head.
14061406Wife. Set on your coxcomb: tu
sh,
fine me no
fines.
14071407Can. Beleeue me (
sweet) none greets the Senate-hou
se,
14081408without his Robe of reuerence, that's his Gowne.
14091409Wife. Wel, then y'are like to cro
sse that cu
stome once,
14101410You get nor key, nor gowne, and
so depart:
14111411This trick will vexe him
sure, and
fret his heart.
Exit. 14121412Cand. Stay, let me
see, I mu
st haue
some deuice,
14131413My cloke's too
short: fy, fy, no cloke will doo't:
14141414It mu
st be
something fa
shioned like a gowne,
14151415With my armes out: oh
George, come hither
George,
14161416I pry thee lend me thine aduice.
14171417Geor. Troth
sir, were it any but you, they would break
(open chest. 14181418Cand. O no, breake open che
st! thats a Theeues o
ffice:
14191419Therein you coun
sell me again
st my bloud:
14201420'Twould
shew impatience that, any meeke meanes
14211421I would be glad to imbrace. Ma
sse I haue got it:
14221422Go,
step vp, fetch me downe one of the Carpets,
14231423The
sadde
st colourd Carpet, hone
st George,
14241424Cut thou a hole ith middle for my necke,
14251425Two for mine armes, nay prithee looke not
strange.
14261426Geor. I hope you doe not thinke
sir, as you meane.
14271427Cand. Prithee about it quickly, the houre chides me:
14281428Warily George,
softly, take heed of eyes,
Exit George. 14291429Out of two euils hee's accounted wi
se,
14301430That can picke out the lea
st; the Fine impo
sde
14311431For an vn-gowned Senator, is about
14321432Forty Cruzadoes, the Carpet not 'boue foure.
14331433Thus haue I cho
sen the le
sser euill yet,
14341434Pre
seru'd my patience, foyld her de
sperate wit.
14351435Geor. Here,
sir, heer's the Carpet.
Enter George. Cand. O