Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Quarto)

Pericles Prince of Tyre.
 1572Boult. I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand peeces.
 1573Pand. Well, follow me my maisters, you shall haue your
 1574money presenly, wife take her in, instruct her what she has
 1575to doe, that she may not be rawe in her entertainment.
 1576Bawd. Boult, take you the markes of her, the colour of
 1577her haire, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her
 1578virginitie, and crie; He that wil giue most shal haue her first,
 1579such a maydenhead were no cheape thing, if men were as
 1580they haue beene: get this done as I command you.
 1581Boult. Performance shall follow. Exit.  
 1582Mar. Alacke that Leonine was so slacke, so slow, he should
 1583haue strooke, not spoke, or that these Pirates, not enough
 1584barbarous, had not oreboord throwne me, for to seeke my
 1585mother.
 1586Bawd. Why lament you prettie one?
 1587Mar. That I am prettie.
 1588Bawd. Come, the Gods haue done their part in you.
 1589Mar. I accuse them not.
 1590Bawd. You are light into my hands, where you are like
 1591to liue.
 1592Mar. The more my fault, to scape his handes, where I
 1593was to die.
 1594Bawd. I, and you shall liue in peasure.
 1595Mar. No.
 1596Bawd. Yes indeed shall you, and taste Gentlemen of all
 1597fashions, you shall fare well, you shall haue the difference of
 1598all complexions, what doe you stop your eares?
 1599Mar. Are you a woman?
 1600Bawd. What would you haue mee be, and I bee not a
 1601woman?
 1602Mar. An honest woman, or not a woman.
 1603Bawd. Marie whip the Gosseling, I thinke I shall haue
 1604something to doe with you, come you'r a young foolish
 1605sapling, and must be bowed as I would haue you.
 1606Mar. The Gods defend me.
Bawd.

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