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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.
1171And on your eye-lids hang so heauily,
1172They haue no power to looke so high as heauen,
1176For his temptation. Say you taste delight,
1177To haue a golden Gull from rize to Set,
1178To meat you in his hote luxurious armes,
1179Yet your nights pay for all: I know you dreame
1180Of warrants, whips, & Beadles, and then start
1181At a dores windy creake: thinke euery Weezle
1182To be a Constable: and euery Rat
1184Oh you haue damnation without pleasure for it!
1185Such is the state of Harlots. To conclude,
1186When you are old, and can well paynt no more,
1187You turne Bawd, and are then worse then before:
1188Make vse of this: farewell.
1191Would all the Harlots in the towne had heard me. Exit.
1192Bel. Stay yet a little longer. no: quite gone!
1193Curst be that minute (for it was no more.
1194So soone a mayd is chang'd into a Whore)
1198Hate the worlds mixtures, & the smiles of gold:
1201How many Gallants haue drunk healthes to me,
1202Out of their daggerd armes, & thought thē blest,
1203Enioying but mine eyes at prodigall feasts!
1204And does Hipolito detest my loue?
1206I am not pleasing, beautifull nor young.
1208Eclipsing all my beauties: I am foule:
Harlot!