THE HONEST WHORE.
25352534Cast. And where is father
Anselmo now?
25362535Tow. Mary hees gon but eene now.
25372536Duk. I, well done, tell me, whether is he gone?
25392538Flu. Ha, ha, this fellow is a foole, talkes idlelie.
25402539Pio. Sirra are all the mad folkes in
Millan brought hither
? 25412540Tow. How all, theres a wi
se que
stion indeede
: why if al the
25422541mad folkes in
Millan should come hither, there would not be
25442543Duk. Few gentlemen or Courtiers here, ha.
25452544Tow. Oh yes? abundance, aboundance, lands no
sooner fall
25462545into their hands, but
straight they runne out a their wits: Ci
- 25472546tizēs
sons & heires are
free of the hou
se by their fathers copy
: 25482547Farmers
sons come hither like gee
se (in
flocks) & when they
25492548ha
sould all their corne
fields, here they
sit & picke the
straws.
25502549Sin. Me thinks you
should haue women here a
swel as men.
25512550Tow. Oh, I: a plague on em, theres no ho with them, they are
25532552Flu. Are there no lawyers here among
st you?
25542553Tow. Oh no, not one: neuer any lawyer, we dare not let a
25552554lawyer come in, for heele make em mad fa
ster than we can
25572556Du. And how long i
st er'e you recouer any of the
se.
25582557Tow. Why according to the quantitie of the Moone thats
25592558got into em, an Aldermans
sonne will be mad a great while
25602559a very great while, e
specially if his
friends left him well, a
25612560whore will hardly come to her wits agen: a puritane ther's no
25622561hope of him, vnle
sse he may pull downe the
steeple and hang
25642563Flu. I perceiue all
sorts of
fish come to your net.
25652564Tow. Yes intruth, we haue blockes for all heads, we haue
25662565good
store of wilde oates here: for the Courtier is mad at
25672566the Cittizen, the Cittizen is madde at the Country men, the
25682567shoomaker is mad at the cobler, the cobler at the carman, the
25692568punke is mad that the Marchants wife is no whore, the Mar
- 25702569chants wife is mad that the puncke is
so common a whore
: 25712570gods
so, heres father
Anselmo. pray
say nothing that I tel tales
25732572Omn. God ble
sse you father.
Enter Anselmo. Ans.