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The Whore of Babylon (Quarto, 1607)
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He Generall scope of this Drammaticall
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Poem, is to set forth (in Tropicall and
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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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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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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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ly pointed into the clouds, that the Art of no pen is able to
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farther they are waded into, the farther is it to the bottom.
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too much, nor the other (in opppo
sition) too little in their owne
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defence.
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count of time, and set not down Occurrents, according to their
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liue vnder one law. How true Fortunes dyall hath gone whose
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mine eare
stood not within reach of their Larums. But of
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And no maruaile; for let the Poet set the note of his Nombers,
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euen to Apolloes owne Lyre, the Player will haue his owne Cro-
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Tayler: It is not mard in the wearing, but in the cutting out.
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The labours therfore of Writers are as vnhappie as the children
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after they come into the world. What a number of throwes doe
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we endure eare we be deliuered? and yet euen then (tho that hea-
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it made lame by the bad handling of them to whome it is put to
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learne to goe: if this of mine bee made a cripple by such meanes,
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at his birth; but fell vpon him by mis-fortune, and in recompence