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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 conuerted Courtizan.
1134Like Beares and Apes, y'are bayted & shew tricks
1136Indeed you are their Iourney-women, and do
1138So that you n'ere are rich; for doe but shew me,
1143Princes, Earles, Lords, the worst has bin a knight,
1146Handfuls of gold, yet for all this, at last
1148That she has begd e'ene at a beggers doore.
1149And (wherin heau'n has a finger) when this Idoll,
1152When seuerall nations haue gone ouer her,
1154Her maidenhead has bin new, & bin sold deare:
1155Did liue wel there, & might haue dide vnknowne
1156And vndefam'd, back comes she to her owne,
1157And there both miserably liues and dyes,
1158Scornd euen of those, that once ador'd her eyes,
1159As if her fatall-circled life thus ranne,
1161What, do you weep, to heare your story read?
1162Nay, if you spoyle your cheeks, Ile read no more.
1163Bel. O yes, I pray proceed:
1164Indeed 'twill do me good to weep indeed.
1166Y'are like the Iewes, scatterd, in no place certain,
1167Your daies are tedious, your houres burdensome:
1168And wer't not for full suppers, midnight Reuels,
1169Dauncing, wine, ryotous meetings, which do drowne,
1170And bury quite in you all vertuous thoughts,
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