Act 4, Scene VI

SCENE VI. The same. A room in the brothel.

Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT
Pandar
Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she
had ne'er come here.

Bawd
Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god
Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must
either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she
should do for clients her fitment, and do me the
kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks,
her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her
knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil,
if he should cheapen a kiss of her.

BOULT
'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us
of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.

Pandar
Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!

Bawd
'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the
way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised.

BOULT
We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish
baggage would but give way to customers.

Enter LYSIMACHUS

LYSIMACHUS
How now! How a dozen of virginities?

Bawd
Now, the gods to-bless your honour!

BOULT
I am glad to see your honour in good health.

LYSIMACHUS
You may so; 'tis the better for you that your
resorters stand upon sound legs. How now!
wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal
withal, and defy the surgeon?

Bawd
We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never
came her like in Mytilene.

LYSIMACHUS
If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say.

Bawd
Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.

LYSIMACHUS
Well, call forth, call forth.

BOULT
For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall
see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but--

LYSIMACHUS
What, prithee?

BOULT
O, sir, I can be modest.

LYSIMACHUS
That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it
gives a good report to a number to be chaste.

Exit BOULT

Bawd
Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never
plucked yet, I can assure you.

Re-enter BOULT with MARINA

Is she not a fair creature?

LYSIMACHUS
'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea.
Well, there's for you: leave us.

Bawd
I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and
I'll have done presently.

LYSIMACHUS
I beseech you, do.

Bawd
[To MARINA] First, I would have you note, this is
an honourable man.

MARINA
I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.

Bawd
Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man
whom I am bound to.

MARINA
If he govern the country, you