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The second part of the honest whore, with the hvmors of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife

the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne Curtizan againe : her braue refuting those Arguments. And lastly, the Comicall Passages of an Italian Bridewell, where the Scaene ends
  

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Enter Astolfo, Carolo, Beraldo, Fontinell.
Lod.
See, the Couy is sprung.

Omnes.
Saue you Gallants.

Mat.
Happily encounterd, sweet bloods.

Lod.

Gentlemen, you all know Signior Candido, the Linnen
Draper, he that's more patient then a browne Baker, vpon
the day when he heates his Ouen, and has forty Scolds about
him.


Omnes.

Yes, we know him all, what of him?


Lod.

Wud it not be a good fit of mirth, to make a piece
of English cloth of him, and to stretch him on the Tainters,
till the threds of his owne naturall humor cracke, by making
him drinke healths, Tobacco dance, sing bawdy songs,
or to run any bias according as we thinke good to cast him?




Car.

'Twere a Morris dance worth the seeing.


Ast.

But the old Fox is so crafty, we shall hardly hunt out
of his den.


Mat.

To that traine I ha giuen fire already; and the hook
to draw him hither, is to see certaine pieces of Lawne,
which I told him I haue to sell, and indeed haue such: fetch
them downe, Pacheco.


Orl.

Yes, sir, I'm your Water-spanniell, and will fetch any
thing: but Ile fetch one dish of meat anon, shall turne your
stomacke, and that's a Constable.


Exit.