Pericles Prince of Tyre.
Li.Why, I cannot name but I shall offend.
Ma.I cannot be offended with my trade, please you to name it.
Li.How long haue you bene of this profession?
Ma.Ere since I can remember.
Li.Did you goe too't so young, were you a gamester at fiue, or at seuen?
Ma.Earlyer too Sir, if now I bee one.
Ly.Why the house you dwell in proclaimes you to be a Creature of sale.
Ma.Doe you knowe this house to be a place of such resort, and will come intoo't? I heare say you're of honourable parts, and are the Gouernour of this place.
Li.Why, hath your principall made knowne vnto you who I am?
Ma.Who is my principall?
Li.Why, your hearbe-woman, she that sets seeds and rootes of shame and iniquitie.
O you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloft for more serious wooing, but I protest to thee prettie one, my authoritie shall not see thee, or else looke friendly vpon thee, come bring me to some priuate place:
Come, come.
O you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloft for more serious wooing, but I protest to thee prettie one, my authoritie shall not see thee, or else looke friendly vpon thee, come bring me to some priuate place:
Come, come.
Ma.If you were borne to honour, shew it now, if put vpon you, make the iudgement good, that thought you worthie of it.
Li.How's this? how's this? some more, be sage.
Mar.For me that am a maide, though most vngentle Fortune haue plac't mee in this Stie, where since I came, diseases haue beene solde deerer then Phisicke, that the gods would set me free from this vnhalowed place, though they did chaunge mee to the meanest byrd that flyes i'th purer ayre.
Li.I did not thinke thou couldst haue spoke so well, nere dremp't thou could'st, had I brought hither a corrupted minde, thy speeche had altered it, holde, heeres
golde,
