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SECOND GENTLEMAN

          No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy houses. Shall’s go hear the vestals
          sing?



              FIRST GENTLEMAN
          I’ll do anything now that is virtuous, but I am out of the road of rutting for
          ever.

                                                                                                        Exeunt.




                                                    Scene VI          IT


                                                 Enter the three Bawds.



              PANDER
          Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she had ne’er come here.



              BAWD
          Fie,  fie  upon  her!  She’s  able  to  freeze  the  god  Priapus  and  undo  a  whole

          generation.  We  must  either  get  her  ravished  or  be  rid  of  her.  When  she
          should  do  [5]  for  clients  her  fitment  and  do  me  the  kindness  of  our
          profession,  she  has  me  her  quirks,  her  reasons,  her  master  reasons,  her
          prayers, her knees, that she would make a puritan of the devil if he should

          cheapen a kiss of her. [10]



              BOULT
          Faith, I must ravish her, or she’ll disfurnish us of all our cavalleria and make
          our swearers priests.



              PANDER
          Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!



              BAWD
          Faith, there’s no way to be rid on’t but by the way to the pox. Here comes the
          Lord Lysimachus disguised. [15]




              BOULT
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