Author: Thomas DekkerEditors: Frances E. Dolan, Anna PruittNot Peer Reviewed
The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
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Complete text
> A Dumb
shew.
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H
E drawes a Curtaine, discouering Truth in sad abiliments; vncrownd:
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her haire di
sheueld, &
sleeping on a Rock: Time (her father) attired like-
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wise in black, and al his properties (as Sithe, Howregla
s
s
e and Wings) of the
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same Cullor, vsing all meanes to waken Truth, but not being able to doe it,
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he
sits by her and mourns. Then enter Friers, Bi
shops, Cardinals before the
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Hearse of a Queen, after it Councellors, Pentioners & Ladies, al these la
st ha-
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uing scarfes before their eyes, the other
singing in Latin. Trueth suddenly a-
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wakens, & beholding this
sight,
shews (with her father) arguments of Ioy, and
36Exeunt,
returning presently: Time being
shifted into light Cullors, his pro-
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perties likewise altred into
siluer, and Truth Crowned, (being cloathed in a
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robe
spotted with Starres) meete the Hearse, and pulling the veiles from the
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Councellers eyes, they woundring a while, and seeming a
stoni
shed at her
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brightnes, at length embrace Truth and Time, & depart with them: leauing
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This being done, Enter Titania (the Farie Queene) attended with those
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Councellors, and other persons fitting her e
state: Time and Truth meete her,
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presenting a Booke to her, which (ki
s
s
ing it)
shee receiues, and
shewing it
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to those about her, they drawe out their swordes, (embracing Truth,) vowing
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to defend her and that booke: Truth then and Time are sent in, and returne
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presently, driuing before them those Cardinals, Friers &c. (that came in be-
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fore) with Images, Croziar
staues &c. They gon, certaine graue learned men,
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that had beene bani
shed, are brought in, and presented to Titania, who
shewes
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to them the booke, which they receiue with great
signes of gladne
s
s
e, and