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shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll have no more
gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say.

[Re-enter Bawd.]

BAWD.
How now! what's the matter?

BOULT.
Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy words to the
Lord Lysimachus.

BAWD.
O Abominable!

BOULT.
She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of
the gods.

BAWD.
Marry, hang her up for ever!

BOULT.
The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman, and she
sent him away as cold as a snowball; saying his prayers too.

BAWD.
Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure: crack the glass of
her virginity, and make the rest malleable.

BOULT.
An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is, she shall
be ploughed.

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 he my master, or rather, my mistress.

MARINA.
Neither of these are so had 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;