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Did you go to’t so young? Were you a gamester at five, or at seven? [70]

MARINA
Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.

LYSIMACHUS
Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a creature of sale.

MARINA
Do you know this house to be a place of such resort, and will come into’t? I
hear say you’re of honourable [75] parts and are the governor of this place.

LYSIMACHUS
Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?

MARINA
Who is my principal?

LYSIMACHUS
Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds [80] and roots of shame and
iniquity. O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof for
more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my authority shall not
see thee, or else look friendly upon thee. Come, bring me to some private

place. Come, [85] come.

MARINA
If you were born to honour, show it now;
If put upon you, make the judgement good
That thought you worthy of it.

LYSIMACHUS
How’s this? How’s this? Some more. Be sage. [90]

MARINA
For me

That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune
Have placed me in this sty, where since I came