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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
2365Vpon your certaine ruine?
2368
Coz:
She gaue you yours.
2369
Pari:
To ha tan'e it had bin tyrany, her owne lips
2371My youth, and meanes in seruing her: what reape I?
2373(Sweet meates that rotte the eater:) why, la
st day
2375Of Santa Cataryna, twas denied me.
2376
Coz:
She keepes you to a better.
2379
Coz:
Well coz, ile hence.
2382Let me but breath, and what I meane to doe,
2384
Pari: Fare you well,
2386
Tytania, Elfyron, Parthenophil, Parydel, Florimell.
2389Their heads and handes togither, at one pull
2390To heaue you from your throne: that manni
sh woman-Diuell,
2391That lu
stfull bloudie Queene of Babylon,
2392Hath (as we gather ripe intelligence)
2393Rigd an Armd fleete, which euen now beates the waues,
2394Boa
sting to make their wombes our Cities graues.
2395
Tyta.
Let it come on: our Generall leades aboue them,
2396Earth-quakes may kingdomes mooue, but not remooue them.
2397
Fideli.
2399The little Captaine that's made all of fire,
2400Sweares (Flemming-like) by twenty thousand Diuels,
So