Author: Thomas DekkerEditors: Frances E. Dolan, Anna PruittNot Peer Reviewed
The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
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T
He Generall scope of this Drammaticall
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Poem, is to set forth (in Tropicall and
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shadowed collours) the Greatnes, Magna-
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nimity, Con
stancy, Clemency, and other
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the incomparable Heroical vertues of our
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late Queene And (on the contrary part)
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the inueterate malice, Treasons, Ma-
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chinations Vnderminings, & continual blody
stratagems of that
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Purple whore of Roome, to the taking away of our Princes liues,
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and vtter extirpation of their Kingdomes. Wherein if accor-
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ding to the dignity of the Subiect, I haue not giuen it Lu
stre,
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and (to vse the Painters rhethorick) doe so faile in my Depthes
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& Heightnings, that it is not to the life, let this excuse me, that
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the Pyramides
vpon whose top the glorious Raigne of our de-
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ceased Soueraigne was mounted,
stands yet so high, and so
sharp-
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ly pointed into the clouds, that the Art of no pen is able to
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reach it. The
streame of her Vertues is so immēsurable, that the
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farther they are waded into, the farther is it to the bottom.
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In sayling vpon which two contrary Seas, you may obserue,
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on how direct a line I haue
steered my course: for of such a scant-
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ling are my words set downe, that neither the one party
speakes
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too much, nor the other (in opppo
sition) too little in their owne
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And whereas I may, (by some more curions in censure, then
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sound in iudgement) be Critically taxed, that I fal
si
fie the ac-
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count of time, and set not down Occurrents, according to their
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true succe
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s
ion, let such (that are so nice of
stomach) know, that
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I write as a Poet, not as an Hi
storian, and that these two doe not
liue
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