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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
1852One woman serues for mans damnation,
1855That ere was entred in the court of heauen:
1856I was on meditations spottles wings,
1857vpon my iourney thither; like a storme
1858Thou beatst my ripened cogitations,
1861Bell. If woman were thy mother; if thy hart,
1862Bee not all Marble, (or ift Marble be)
1863Let my teares soften it, to pitty me,
1865Destroy a woman.
1868I would not grant it to a kneeling Queene,
1869I cannot loue thee, nor I must not: See,
1870The copy of that obligation,
1871Where my soul's bound in heauy penalties.
1874Were thine eyes cleere as mine, thou mightest behold her,
1875Watching vpon yon battlements of starres,
1877This bord would riue in twaine, these wooden lippes
1881Ile haue thee fellowes? All are fellowes there.
1884If not, and that againe, sinnes path I tread,
1885The griefe be mine, the guilt fall on thy head.
1887Aske counsell of this head whats to be done,
1888Hele strike it dead that tis damnation,
1889If you turne turke againe, oh doe it not,
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