Pericles Prince of Tyre.
Boult.And if shee were a thornyer peece of ground then shee is, shee shall be plowed.
Ma.Harke, harke you Gods.
Bawd.She coniures, away with her, would she had neuer come within my doores, Marrie hang you: shees borne to vndoe vs, will you not goe the way of women-kinde? Marry come vp my dish of chastitie with rosemary & baies.
Boult.Come mistris, come your way with mee.
Ma.Whither wilt thou haue mee?
Boult.To take from you the Iewell you hold so deere.
Ma.Prithee tell mee one thing first.
Boult.Come now your one thing.
Ma.What canst thou wish thine enemie to be.
Boult.Why, I could wish him to bee my master, or rather my mistris.
Ma.Neither of these are so bad as thou art, since they doe better thee in their command, thou hold'st a place for which the painedst feende of hell would not in reputation change: Thou art the damned doore-keeper to euery custerell that comes enquiring for his Tib. To the cholerike sisting of euery rogue, thy eare is lyable, thy foode is euch as hath beene belch't on by infected lungs.
Bo.What wold you haue me do? go to the wars, wold you? wher a man may serue 7.yeers for the losse of a leg, & haue not money enough in the end to buy him a woodden one?
Ma.Doe any thing but this thou doest, emptie olde receptacles, or common-shores of filthe, serue by indenture, to the common hang-man, anie of these wayes are yet hetter then this: for what thou professest, a Baboone could he speak, would owne a name too deere, that the gods wold safely deliver me from this place: here, heers gold for thee, if that thy master would gaine by me, proclaime that I can sing, weaue, sow, & dance, with other vertues, which Ile keep from boast, and will vndertake all these to teache. I doubt not but this populous Cittie will yeelde manie schollers.
Boult.
