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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
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CVRTIZAN.
2341 If wiues will haue it raine, downe then it driues,
2346storme no more, long no more.-This longing has made you
2347come short of many a good thing that you might haue had
2349Enter Duke, Fluello, Pioratto, Sinere.
2352Deliuer foorth my husband good my Lord.
2353Duke. Who is her husband?
2355Wife. Hees among the lunaticks,
2356He was a man made vp without a gall,
2357Nothing could moue him, nothing could conuert
2358His meeke bloud into fury, yet like a monster,
2360Of his vnshaken patience, and did long
2363Had warrant from your Grace, to cary him
2365Without your Graces hand that sent him in.
2366Duke. You haue longd fayre; tis you are mad I feare,
2367Its fit to fetch him thence, and keepe you there:
2368If he be mad, why would you haue him forth?
2371thats all: theres a thousand about your court, citty and
2372countrie, madder then he.
2374Geo. Heres a warrant ready drawne my Lord.
2376Cast Where is my Lord the Duke?
2377Duke. How now? more mad men.
I Cast.