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- Edition: The Honest Whore, Part 1
The Honest Whore, Part 1 (Quarto 2, 1604)
- Introduction
- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Acknowledgements
- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Abbreviations
- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Introduction
- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Analysis of the Plays
- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: The Plays in Performance
- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Textual Introduction
- The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2: Appendices
- Texts of this edition
- Facsimiles
THE CONVERTED
1021Bell. O fate!
1024Out that one man, whose loue could fellow mine.
1025As I haue euer wisht it: ô my Stars!
1026Had I but met with one kind gentleman,
1030And my allowance reasonable-yfaith,
1031According to my body-by my troth,
1032I would haue bin as true vnto his pleasures,
1033Yea, and as loyall to his afternoones,
1034As euer a poore gentlewoman could be.
1037Twere prettie Art, good bird-lime, cunning net:
1038But come, come, faith-confesse: how many men
1040From that red tycing lip?
1041Bell. Indeede not any.
1043Bell. No, in truth not any.
1045Tis well: if ill it be not: yet had I
1046The ruffian in me, and were drawne before you
1047But in light cullors, I doe know indeed,
1048You would not sweare indeede, But thunder oathes
1050And pierce a soule (that lou'd her makers honour)
1051With horror and amazement.
1053Wil you belieue me then?
1057And after him a next, and then a fourth,
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