THE HONEST WHORE.
16661666Gaue money for my
soule; you brake the Ice,
16671667Which after turnd a puddle: I was led
16681668By your temptation to be mi
serable:
16691669I pray
seeke out
some other that will fall,
16701670Or rather (I pray)
seeke out none at all.
16711671Mat. I
st po
ssible, to be impo
ssible, an hone
st whore! I
16721672haue heard many hone
st wenches turne Strumpets with
16731673a wet
finger; but for a Harlot to turne hone
st, is one of
Her- 16741674cules labours: It was more ea
sie for him in one night to
16751675make
fifty queanes, then to make one of them hone
st a
- 16761676gen in
fifty yeeres: come, I hope thou doo
st but ie
st.
16771677Bel. Tis time to leaue o
ff ie
sting, I had almo
st 16781678Ie
sted away Saluation: I
shall loue you,
16811681Bel. Oh, tempt no more womē:
shun their weighty cur
se,
16821682Women (at be
st) are bad, make them not wor
se,
16831683You gladly
seeke our
sexes ouerthrow:
16841684But not to ray
se our
states for all your wrongs.
16851685Will you vouch
safe me but due recompence,
16871687Mat. How, marry with a Punck, a Cockatrice, a Har
- 16881688lot? mary foh, Ile be burnt thorow the no
se
fir
st.
16891689Bel. Why la? the
se are your othes you loue to vndo vs,
16901690To put heauen from vs, whil
st our be
st houres wa
ste:
16911691You loue to make vs lewd, but neuer cha
ste.
16921692Mat. Ile heare no more of this: this ground vpon,
16931693Th'art damn'd for altring thy Religion.
Exit. 16941694Bel. Thy lu
st and
sin
speake
so much: go thou my ruine,
16951695The
fir
st fall my
soule tooke; by my example
16961696I hope few maydens now will put their heads
16971697Vnder mens girdels: who lea
st tru
sts, is mo
st wi
se:
16981698Mens othes do ca
st a mi
st before our eyes.
16991699My be
st of wit be ready: now I goe,
17001700By
some deuice to greet
Hipolito.
F 4 SCENA