Qvips vpon qvestions or, A Clownes conceite on occasion offered. bewraying a morrallised metamorphoses of changes vpon interrogatories: shewing a litle wit, with a great deale of will; or in deed, more desirous to please in it, then to profite by it. Clapt vp by a Clowne of the towne in this last restraint, hauing litle else to doe, to make a litle vse of his fickle Muse, and carelesse of carping. By Clunnyco de Curtanio Snuffe [i.e. Robert Armin] |
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VVhat is shee?
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VVhat is shee?
What is that Woman: Sir she was a Mayde.
O, but she is not now. How happens this?
Yes sir she is, but there with ill apayde:
Mayde is she, no Mayde by one deede amisse.
In deede, one deede which lately for she did,
From Maydes estate I must her needes forbid.
O, but she is not now. How happens this?
Yes sir she is, but there with ill apayde:
Mayde is she, no Mayde by one deede amisse.
In deede, one deede which lately for she did,
From Maydes estate I must her needes forbid.
Is she a Wife? neither, not so blessed,
That honour last leape yeere escapt her too.
What, is sh'a Widdow, late by death distressed?
O no, nor that way wrongde: I know not how,
Onely thus much I say, and talke no more,
Nor mayde, wife, widdow, but a common whore.
That honour last leape yeere escapt her too.
What, is sh'a Widdow, late by death distressed?
O no, nor that way wrongde: I know not how,
Onely thus much I say, and talke no more,
Nor mayde, wife, widdow, but a common whore.
Quip.
O beautie thou art wrongd thus euery hower,Fro which this loues, thou'lt vanish like a flower:
And since tis so, this then became her thrall,
Correction serues to quittance her for all.
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