Pericles Prince of Tyre.
Boult.I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.
Pand.Well, follow me my maisters, you shall haue your money presenly, wife take her in, instruct her what she has to doe, that she may not be rawe in her entertainment.
Bawd.Boult, take you the markes of her, the colour of her haire, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her virginitie, and crie, He that will giue most shal haue her first, such a maydenhead were no cheape thing, if men were as they haue beene: get this done as I command you.
Exit.Boult.Performance shall follow.
Mar.Alacke that Leonine was so slacke, so slow, he should haue strooke, not spoke, or that these Pirates, not enough barbarous, had not oreboord throwne me, for to seeke my mother.
Bawd.Why lament you prettie one?
Mar.That I am prettie.
Bawd.Come, the Gods haue done their part in you.
Mar.I accuse them not.
Bawd.You are light into my hands, where you are like to liue.
Mar.The more my fault, to scape his handes, where I was to die.
Bawd.I, and you shall liue in pleasure.
Mar.No.
Bawd.Yes indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all fashions, you shall fare well, you shall haue the difference of all complexions, what doe you stop your eares?
Mar.Are you a woman?
Bawd.What would you haue mee be, and I bee not a woman?
Mar.An honest woman, or not a woman.
Bawd.Marie whip the Gosseling, I thinke I shall haue something to doe with you, come you'r a young foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would haue you.
Mar.The Gods defend me.
Bawd.
