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- Edition: The Honest Whore, Part 2
The Honest Whore, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1630)
- 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 Honest Whore.
1405Thy head lay in her lap, and that she danc't thee
1406On her wanton knee, she could but giue thee a whole
1407World: that's all, and that all's nothing; the worlds
1409Say, the three corners were all filld, alas!
1411Such as by Boyes is puft into the aire.
1412Were twenty Kingdomes thine, thou'dst liue in care:
1414Nor merrier be, nor healthfuller, nor stronger.
1416No man wants all things, nor has all in measure.
1419out of one puddle or another, still falling.
1420Enter Bellafront, and Orlando.
1422With my heart yfaith.
1423Lod. Thankes, good Matheo.
1426with all my knocking, strike but sixe sparkes of fire out of 1427them, here's sixe duckets, if youle take them.
1429moths and plagues hang vpon their lowsie wardrobs.
1430Lod. Is this your man, Matheo? An old Seruingman.
1432That's the Begger.
1435what) and they feed me with bits, with crummes, a pox
1436choke them.
1437Lod. A word, Matheo: be not angry with me,
1438Beleeue it that I know the touch of time,
1439And can part copper (tho it be gilded o're)
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