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  • Title: The Honest Whore, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1630)
  • Editor: Joost Daalder

    • ISBN: 978-1-55058-490-5

    Copyright Digital Renaissance Editions. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: Thomas Dekker
    Editor: Joost Daalder
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    The Honest Whore, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1630)

    The Honest Whore.
    Seruant. My Lord calls.----within.----
    Hip. Send me the Footman.
    Ser. Call the Footman to my Lord. Bryan, Bryan.

    Enter Bryan.
    1265Hip. It can be no man else, that Irish Iudas,
    Bred in a Country where no venom prospers,
    But in the Nations blood hath thus betraid me.
    Slaue, get you from your seruice.
    Bry. Faat meanest thou by this now?
    1270Hip. Question me not, nor tempt my fury, villaine,
    Couldst thou turne all the Mountaines in the land,
    To hills of gold, and to giue me; here thou stayest not.
    Bry. I faat, I care not.
    Hip. Prate not, but get thee gone, I shall send else.
    1275Bry. I, doe predy, I had rather haue thee make a scabbard
    of my guts, and let out all de Irish puddings in my poore
    belly, den to be a false knaue to de I faat, I will neuer see
    dyne own sweet face more. A mawhid deer a gra, fare de well,
    fare de well, I wil goe steale Cowes agen in Ireland. Exit.
    1280Hip. He's damn'd that rais'd this whirlewind, which
    hath blowne
    Into her eyes this iealousie: yet Ile on,
    Ile on, stood armed Deuils staring in my face,
    To be pursued in flight, quickens the race,
    1285Shall my blood streames by a wiues lust be bard?
    Fond woman, no: Iron growes by strokes more hard,
    Lawlesse desires are seas scorning all bounds,
    Or sulphure which being ram'd vp, more confounds,
    Strugling with mad men, madnes nothing tames,
    1290Winds wrastling with great fires, incense the flames.Exit.

    Enter Matheo, Bellafront, and Orlando.

    Bel. How now, what ayles your Master?
    Orl. Has taken a yonger brothers purge, forsooth, and
    that workes with him.
    Bel.
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