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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
The Whore of Babylon.
121White as is innocence, and with an eye
122Able to tempt
stearne murther to her bed)
124Her crowne, her sweet songs, counterfets her voyce,
128Whom we but late bani
sht, to liue in caues,
129In rockes and desart mountaines.
131
Empr.
O t'is a cunning Spider,
132And in her nets so wraps the Fairie Queene,
134Which
shee calles holy Spels.
137For from the Fairie
shores this Witch hath driuen
140Sing wonders, and diuine of things to come:
141Through whose bewitching tongues runne golden chaines,
144Of harmony, that Babylon can sound,
145Are charmes to Adders, and no more regarded,
146Than are by him that's deafe, the
sicke mans groanes
147Shee, they, Titania, and her Fairie Lords,
149Defame me, call me Whore of Babylon.
150
Omn.
O vnheard of prophanation!
152I pro
stitute this body: that to Kings
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