Dand. Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we
pay for them. If there be not a conscience to
be used in every trade, we shall never prosper.
Bawd. Thou sayest true; 'tis not the bringing up
of poor bastards, as I think I have brought
up some eleven-

Boult. Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again.
But shall I search the market?

Bawd. What else, man? The stuff we have a
strong wind will blow it to pieces, they are
so pitifully sodden.

Pand. Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o' conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that lay with the little baggage.

Boult. Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him

roast-meat for worms.
market.

II, 12. If there prosper] we hall never thrive if we do not use hat conscience which ought to be ■sed in every trade.

14. as] What Ingleby (Shakespeare, The Man and the Book, i. 147) calls 'the conjunction of reminder, being Employed by Shakespeare to introluce a subsidiary statement, qualifyng, or even contradicting, what goes before, which the person addressed is equired to take for granted". Compare As You Like It, III. v. 38:"What though you have no beauty,

As, by my faith, I see no more

in you Than without candle may go dark to bed "; Measure for Measure, II. iv. 89 :"Admit no other way to save his life,

IO

15

20

But I'll go search the 25

[Exit.

As I subscribe not that, nor any other " ";

Antony and Cleopatra, 1. iv. 22. The bawd would have concluded by saying "that will bring us prosperity," or words to that effect.

16. to eleven] sc. years of age. 16. and brought. again] and then undoing all your goodness by turning them to evil courses.

18. The stuff] the wretched wornout material for sale.

24. pooped] foundered (figuratively). In the literal sense, to strike a ship in the stern, to sink it. Mr. Craig sends me the following illustration from Nash's Have with you to Saffron Walden (ed. McKerrow, iii. 114): "But wee shall lenvoy him, and trumpe and poope him well enough, if the winde come in that doore".

Pand. Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a proportion to live quietly, and so give

over.

Bawd. Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get when we are old?

30

Pand. O! our credit comes not in like the com-
modity, nor the commodity wages with not the
danger; therefore, if in our youths we could
pick up some pretty estate, 'twere not amiss 35
to keep our door hatched. Besides, the sore
terms we stand upon with the gods will be
strong with us for giving over.

Bawd. Come, other sorts offend as well as we.
Pand. As well as we! ay, and better too; we

offend worse. Neither is our profession any
trade; it's no calling. But here comes Boult.

Re-enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA. Boult. Come your ways. My masters, you say she's a virgin?

First Pir. O! sir; we doubt it not.

27-29. Three ... over] if we could make some three or four thousand chequins, that would be a comfortable provision to retire upon.

27. chequins] the Italian Zecchino, a gold coin worth about seven or eight shillings.

...

40

45

slaves". For wages, compare Antony and Cleopatra, v. i. 31: "His taints and honours Waged equal with him".

...

34-36. if in hatched] if while we are still young we could put together a fair amount, it would be well to shut up shop.

32-34. our credit . . . danger] our credit does not keep pace with the in- 36. hatched] closed with a halfcoming of the merchandize in which door. A reference, as Dyce says, to we traffic, nor is it commensurate the hatch or half-door, with spikes with the danger incurred. For com- upon it, which was the mark of a modity, contemptuously used of brothel. For the substantive hatch, persons, compare 1 Henry IV. IV. ii. compare King John, 1. i. 171. 19: "such a commodity of warm

39. sorts] classes of people, trades.

Boult. Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see if you like her so; if not I have

lost my earnest.

Bawd. Boult, has she any qualities?

Boult. She has a good face, speaks well, and has 50

excellent good clothes; there's no
there's no further

necessity of qualities can make her be refused.

Bawd. What's her price, Boult ?

Boult. I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand

pieces.

Pand. Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have

your money presently. Wife, take her in;
instruct her what she has to do, that she
may not be raw in her entertainment.

55

[Exeunt Pandar and Pirates. Bawd. Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour 60 of her hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her virginity, and cry “He that will give most shall have her first." Such a maidenhead

46. gone through] bidden for her as being resolved to buy her. In the novel:"hée [the pander] in the end, went thorow, and bargained to have her," etc. Compare Measure for Measure, 11. i. 285: "I do it for some piece of money, and go through with all ".

46. piece] Here used scornfully. See note on IV. vi. 115.

48. earnest] handsel to secure ultimate possession. See note on Timon of Athens, Iv. iii. 47 (Arden ed.). 49. any qualities] anything to recommend her.

qualities as to cause you to refuse her".

...

54, 55. I cannot pieces] Malone would give this to the pirate, or would explain "I cannot get them to bate me one doit," etc. Dyce, who says that the preceding speech shows this one to belong to Boult, suggests "It cannot," etc. The sense may be, "I must have the full thousand pieces if I am to complete the purchase".

55. pieces] probably no particular coin or sum, though in Jonson's Magnetic Lady, iv. I = a sovereign.

56. my masters] addressing the

pirates.

59. her entertainment] sc. of customers.

were no cheap thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done as I command you. Boult. Performance shall follow.

Mar. Alack! that Leonine was so slack, so slow.

65

[Exit.

He should have struck, not spoke; or that these
pirates,

Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me
For to seek my mother!

Bawd. Why lament you, pretty one?

Mar. That I am pretty.

Bawd. Come, the gods have done their part in you.
Mar. I accuse them not.

Bawd. You are light into my hands, where you are

like to live.

Mar. The more my fault

To 'scape his hands where I was like to die. Bawd. Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.

Mar. No.

Bawd. Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all fashions. You shall fare well; you shall have the difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears?

70

75

80

67-70. Alack! ... mother!] Arranged as by Malone (1790); prose in Qq 1, 2, 3; four lines ending slow: . . spoke, . . . barbarous, mother! in the rest. 77, 78. The . . . die.] Divided as by Malone (1790); prose in Qq 1, 2, 3; two lines, the first ending hands, in the rest.

awd. What would you have me be, an I be not a

woman?

1ar. An honest woman, or not a woman.

85

Pawd. Marry, whip thee, gosling; I think I shall have something to do with you. Come, you're 90 a young foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have you.

Mar. The gods defend me!

Bawd. If it please the gods to defend you by men,

then men must comfort you, men must feed 95 you, men must stir you up. Boult's returned.

Re-enter BOULT.

Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market? Boult. I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs; I have drawn her picture with my voice.

Bawd. And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort ?

Boult. Faith, they listened to me as they would have hearkened to their father's testament.

1ΟΟ

There 105

was a Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he
went to bed to her very description.

Bawd. We shall have him here to-morrow with his

best ruff on.

men of every variety of race. In the novel : "have the benefite of all nations".

89. whip thee] a petty malediction. Compare Lingua (1607), iii. 3: "Untruss thy points, and whip thee, thou paltry," etc.

89. gosling] Compare Coriolanus, v. iii. 35.

you] I shall

89, 90. I shall have some trouble with you. 98-100. almost voice] any number of times and with infinite exactness of description.