1847Li. Why, I cannot name but I shall offend.

1848Ma. I cannot be offended with my trade, please you to (name it.

1849Li. How long haue you bene of this profession?

1850Ma. Ere since I can remember.

1851Li. Did you goe too't so young, were you a gamester

1852at fiue, or at seuen?

1853Ma. Earlyer too Sir, if now I bee one.

1854Ly. Why? the house you dwell in proclaimes you to

1855be a Creature of sale.

1856Ma. Doe you knowe this house to be a place of such

1857resort, and will come intoo't? I heare say you're of honou-

1858rable parts, and are the Gouernour of this place.

1859Li. Why, hath your principall made knowne vnto

1860you who I am?

1861Ma. Who is my principall?

1862Li. Why, your hearbe-woman, she that sets seeds and

1863rootes of shame and iniquitie.

1864 O you haue heard something of my power, and so

1865stand aloft for more serious wooing, but I protest to thee

1866prettie one, my authoritie shall not see thee, or else looke

1867friendly vpon thee, come bring me to some priuate place:

1868Come, come.

1869Ma. If you were borne to honour, shew it now, if put

1870vpon you, make the iudgement good, that thought you

1871worthie of it.

1872Li. How's this? how's this? some more, be sage.

1873Mar. For me that am a maide, though most vngentle

1874Fortune haue plac't mee in this Stie , where since I came,

1875diseases haue beene solde deerer then Phisicke, that the

1876gods would set me free from this vnhalowed place, though

1877they did chaunge mee to the meanest byrd that flyes i'th

1878purer ayre.

1879Li. I did not thinke thou couldst haue spoke so well,

1880nere dremp't thou could'st, had I brought hither a cor-

1881rupted minde, thy speeche had altered it, holde, heeres