MARINA
Hark, hark, you gods! Bawd
She conjures: away with her! Would she had never come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born to
undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind? Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and
bays!
Exit BOULT
Come, mistress; come your ways with me. MARINA
Whither wilt thou have me? BOULT
To take from you the jewel you hold so dear. MARINA
Prithee, tell me one thing first. BOULT
Come now, your one thing. MARINA
What canst thou wish thine enemy to be? BOULT
Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress. MARINA
Neither of these are so bad as thou art, Since they do better thee in their command. Thou hold'st a place,
for which the pained'st fiend Of hell would not in reputation change: Thou art the damned doorkeeper to
every Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib; To the choleric fisting of every rogue Thy ear is liable; thy
food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs. BOULT
What would you have me do? go to the wars, would you? where a man may serve seven years for the
loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one? MARINA
Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty OLD receptacles, or common shores, of filth; Serve by indenture
to the common hangman: Any of these ways are yet better than this; For what thou professest, a baboon,
could he speak, Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods Would safely deliver me from this place! Here,
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