1523Pander.Boult.

1524Boult. Sir.

1525Pander. Searche the market narrowely, Mettelyne is

1526full of gallants, wee lost too much much money this mart

1527by beeing too wenchlesse.

1528Bawd. Wee were neuer so much out of Creatures, we

1529haue but poore three, and they can doe no more then they

1530can doe, and they with continuall action, are euen as good

1531as rotten.

1532Pander. Therefore lets haue fresh ones what ere wee pay

1533for them, if there bee not a conscience to be vsde in euerie

1534trade, wee shall neuer prosper.

1535Bawd. Thou sayst true, tis not our bringing vp of poore

1536bastards, as I thinke, I haue brought vp some eleuen.

1537Boult. I to eleuen, and brought them downe againe,

1538but shall I searche the market?

1539Bawde. What else man? the stuffe we haue, a strong

1540winde will blowe it to peeces, they are so pittifully sodden.

1541Pandor. Thou sayest true, ther's two vnwholesome a

1542conscience, the poore Transiluanian is dead that laye with

1543the little baggadge.

1544Boult. I, shee quickly poupt him, she made him roast-

1545meate for wormes, but Ile goe searche the market.

1547Pand. Three or foure thousande Checkins were as

1548prettie a proportion to liue quietly, and so giue ouer.

1549Bawd. Why, to giue ouer I pray you? Is it a shame to

1550get when wee are olde?

1551Pand. Oh our credite comes not in like the commo-

1552ditie, nor the commoditie wages not with the daunger:

1553therefore if in our youthes we could picke vp some prettie

1554estate, t'were not amisse to keepe our doore hatch't, besides

1555the sore tearmes we stand vpon with the gods, wilbe strong

1556with vs for giuing ore.

1557Bawd. Come other sorts offend as well as wee.

1558Pand. As well as wee. I, and better too, wee offende

1559worse, neither is our profession any trade, It's no calling,

1560but heere comes Boult.

1562Boult. Come your wayes my maisters, you say shee's a

1563virgin.

1564Sayler. O Sir, wee doubt it not.

1565Boult. Master, I haue gone through for this peece you

1566see, if you like her so, if not I haue lost my earnest.

1567Bawd. Boult, has shee anie qualities?

1568Boult. Shee has a good face, speakes well, and has ex-

1569cellent good cloathes: theres no farther necessitie of qua-

1570lities can make her be refuz'd.

1571Bawd, What's her price Boult?

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.

1607Baud. If it please the Gods to defend you by men, then

1608men must comfort you, men must feed you, men stir you

1609vp: Boults returnd. Now sir, hast thou cride her through

1610the Market?

1611Boult. I haue cryde her almost to the number of her

1612haires, I haue drawne her picture with my voice.

1613Baud. And I prethee tell me, how dost thou find the in-

1614clination of the people, especially of the yonger sort?

1615Boult. Faith they listened to mee, as they would haue

1616harkened to their fathers testament, there was a Spaniards

1617mouth watred, and he went to bed to her verie description.

1618Baud. We shall haue him here to morrow with his best

1619ruffe on.

1620Boult. To night, to night, but Mistresse doe you knowe

1621the French knight, that cowres ethe hams?

1622Baud. Who, Mounsieur Verollus?

1623Boult. I, he, he offered to cut a caper at the proclama-

1624tion, but he made a groane at it, and swore he would see her

1625to morrow.

1626Baud. Well, well, as for him, hee brought his disease hi-

1627ther, here he does but repaire it, I knowe hee will come in

1628our shadow, to scatter his crownes in the Sunne.

1629Boult. Well, if we had of euerie Nation a traueller, wee

1630should lodge them with this signe.

1631Baud. Pray you come hither a while, you haue

1632Fortunes comming vppon you, marke mee, you must

1633seeme to doe that fearefully, which you commit willing-

1634ly, despise profite, where you haue most gaine, to weepe

1635that you liue as yee doe, makes pittie in your Louers sel-

1636dome, but that pittie begets you a good opinion, and that

1637opinion a meere profite.

1638Mari. I vnderstand you not.

1639Boult. O take her home Mistresse, take her home, these

1640blushes of hers must bee quencht with some present

1641practise.

1642Mari. Thou sayest true yfaith, so they must, for your

1643Bride goes to that with shame, which is her way to goe with

1644warrant.

1645Boult. Faith some doe, and some doe not, but Mistresse

1646if I haue bargaind for the ioynt.

1647Baud. Thou maist cut a morsell off the spit.

1648Boult. I may so.

1649Baud. Who should denie it?

1650Come young one, I like the manner of your garments

1651well.

1652Boult. I by my faith, they shall not be changd yet.

1653Baud. Boult, spend thou that in the towne: report what

1654a soiourner we haue , youle loose nothing by custome.

1655When Nature framde this peece, shee meant thee a good

1656turne, therefore say what a parragon she is, and thou hast

1657the haruest out of thine owne report.

1658Boult. I warrant you Mistresse, thunder shall not so a-

1659wake the beds of Eeles, as my giuing out her beautie stirs

1660vp the lewdly enclined, Ile bring home some to night.

1661Baud. Come your wayes, follow me.

1662Mari. If fires be hote, kniues sharpe, or waters deepe,

1663Vntide I still my virgin knot will keepe.

1664Diana ayde my purpose.

1665Baud. What haue we to doe with Diana, pray you will

1666you goe with vs?