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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