THE HONEST WHORE.
18521852One woman
serues for mans damnation.
18531853Be
shrew thee, thou doo
st make me violate,
18541854The cha
ste
st and mo
st san
ctimonious vow,
18551855That ere was entred in the court of heauen:
18561856I was on meditations
spottles wings,
18571857vpon my iorney thether; like a
storme
18581858Thou beats my ripened cogitations,
18591859flat to the ground: and like a theife doo
st stand,
18601860To
steale deuotion
from the holy land.
18611861Bel. If woman were thy mother; if thy hart,
18621862Bee not all Marble, (or ift Marble be)
18631863Let my teares
soften it, to pitty me,
18641864I doe be
seech the doe not thus with
scorne,
18671867Get thee
some other
suite, this
fits thee not,
18681868I would not grant it to a kneeling Queene,
18691869I cannot loue thee, nor I mu
st not: See,
18711871Where my
soule's bound in heauy penalties.
18721872Bel. She's dead you told me,
shele let fal her
suite.
18731873Hip. My vowes to her,
fled after her to heauen,
18741874Were thine eyes cleere as mine, thou might
st behold her,
18751875Watching vpon yon battlements of
starres,
18761876How I ob
serue them:
should I breake my bond,
18771877This bord would riue in twaine, the
se wooden lippes
18781878Call me mo
st periurde villaine, let it
su
ffice,
18791879I ha
set thee in the path; I
st not a
signe,
18801880I loue thee, when with one
so mo
st mo
st deare,
18811881Ile haue thee fellowes? All are fellowes there.
18821882Bel. Be greater then a king,
saue not a body,
18831883But from eternall
shipwracke keepe a
soule,
18841884If not, and that againe,
sinnes path I tread,
18851885The griefe be mine, the guilt fall on thy head.
18861886Hip. Stay and take Phi
sicke for it, read this booke,
18871887Aske coun
sell of this head whats to be done,
18881888Hele
strike it dead that tis damnation,
18891889If you turne turke againe, oh doe it not,
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