Page 216 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

LYSIMACHUS

What, prithee?

BOULT
O, sir, I can be modest.

LYSIMACHUS
That dignifies the renown of a bawd no less [35] than it gives a good report
to a number to be chaste.

BAWD
Here comes that which grows to the stalk, never plucked yet, I can assure

you.
Enter Pander with Marina.
Is she not a fair creature?

LYSIMACHUS
Faith, she would serve after a long voyage [40] at sea. Well, there’s for you.
Leave us.

BAWD

I beseech your honour, give me leave a word, and I’ll have done presently.

LYSIMACHUS

I beseech you, do.

BAWD [45]
(to Marina) First, I would have you note this is an honourable man.

MARINA
I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.

BAWD
Next, he’s the governor of this country, and a man whom I am bound to. [50]

MARINA
If he govern the country, you are bound to him indeed, but how honourable