THE HONEST WHORE.
18901890The heauen cannot allure you to doe well
18911891From doing ill let hell
fright you: and learne this,
18921892The
soule who
se bo
some lu
st did neuer touch,
18931893Is Gods faire bride, and maidens
soules are
such:
18941894The
soule that leauing cha
stities white
shore,
18951895Swims in hot
sen
suall
streames, is the diuels whore,
18961896How now: who comes.
Enter his seruant. 18971897Ser. No more knaues my Lord that weare
smocks: heres
18981898a letter
from do
ctor
Benedict; I would not enter his man, tho
18991899he had haires at his mouth, for feare he
should be a woman, for
19001900some women haue beardes, mary they are halfe witches,
19011901Slid you are a
sweete youth to weare a codpeece, and haue no
19031903Hip. Ile meete the do
ctor, tell him, yet to night
19041904I cannot: but at morrow ri
sing Sunne
19051905I will not faile: go
: woman fare thee well.
Exeunt. 19061906Bel. The lowe
st fall can be but into hell,
19071907It does not moue him. I mu
st therefore
fly,
19081908From this vndoing Cittie, and with teares,
19091909Wa
sh o
ff all anger
from my fathers brow,
19101910He cannot
sure but ioy
seeing me new borne,
19111911A woman hone
st fir
st and then turne whore,
19121912Is (as with me) common to thou
sands more,
19131913But
from a
strumpet to turne cha
st: that
sound,
19141914Has oft bin heard, that woman hardly found.
Exit. 1915191511. SCE. Enter Fustigo, Crambo and Poli. 19161916Fus. Hold vp your hands gentlemen: heres one, two, three,
19171917(nay I warrant they are
sound pi
stols, and without
flawes, I
19181918had them (of my
sister, and I know
she v
ses to put nothing
19191919thats crackt,) three, foure,
fiue,
sixe,
seuen, eight and nine, by
19201920this hand bring me but a piece of his bloud. and you
shall
19211921haue 9. more. Ile lurke in a tauerne not far o
ff, & prouide
sup
- 19221922per to clo
se vp the end of the Tragedy, the linnen drapers re
- 19231923mēber-
stand toot I be
seech you, & play your partes perfe
ctly.
19241924Cram. Looke you Signior, tis not your golde that we way.
19251925Fust. Nay, nay, way it and
spare not, if it lacke one graine of
(corne; 19261926Ile giue you a bu
shell of wheate to make it vp.
19271927Cram. But by your fauour Signior, which of the
seruants
G 3 is