Dion. I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while; Pray you walk softly, do not heat your blood. What! I must have a care of you.

Mar.

Thanks, sweet madam.

Is this wind westerly that blows?

[Exit DIONYZA.

South-west.

Leon.
Mar. When I was born, the wind was north.
Leon.

Was't so?

Mar. My father, as nurse said, did never fear,
But cried, Good seamen! to the sailors, galling
His kingly hands with hauling of the ropes;
And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea
That almost burst the deck.

Leon. When was this?
Mar.

When I was born.

Never was waves nor wind more violent;

And from the ladder-tackle washes off

A canvass-climber.' Ha! says one, wilt out?
And with a dropping industry they skip

From stem to stern; the boatswain whistles, and
The master calls, and trebles their confusion."

I

Leon. Come, say your prayers.

Mar.

What mean you?

Leon. If you require a little space for prayer,
grant it. Pray! but be not tedious,

For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn
To do my work with haste.

Mar.

Leon. To satisfy my lady.

Why will you kill me?

1 i. e. a sailor, one who climbs the mast to furl or unfurl the canvass or

sails.

2 Mr. Steevens thus regulates and reads this passage:

"That almost burst the deck, and from the ladder-tackle
Washed off a canvass-climber. Ha! says one,

Wilt out? and, with a dropping industry,

They skip from stem to stern: The boatswain whistles,
The master calls, and trebles their confusion.

Leon. And when was this?
Mar.

It was when I was born:

Never was waves nor wind more violent.
Leon. Come, say your prayers speedily."

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61

Mar. Why would she have me killed?
Now, as I can remember, by my troth,
I never did her hurt in all my life;
I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
To any living creature: believe me, la,
I never killed a mouse, nor hurt a fly;
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for it. How have I offended,
Wherein my death might yield her profit, or
My life imply her danger?

Leon.

My commission Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.

Mar. You will not do't for all the world, I hope.
You are well-favored, and your looks foreshow
You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,
When you caught hurt in parting two that fought.
Good sooth, it showed well in you; do so now.
Your lady seeks my life; come you between,
And save poor me, the weaker.

Leon.

And will despatch.

I am sworn,

Enter Pirates, whilst MARINA is struggling.

1 Pirate. Hold, villain!

2 Pirate. A prize! a prize!

[LEONINE runs away.

3 Pirate. Half-part, mates, half-part. Come, let's

have her aboard suddenly.

[Exeunt Pirates with MARINA.

SCENE II. The same.

Enter LEONine.

1

Leon. These roving thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; 2

1 Old copy reads "roguing thieves."

2 The Spanish armada, perhaps, furnished this name.

Don Pedro de

Valdes was an admiral in that fleet, and had the command of the great

And they have seized Marina. Let her go;
There's no hope she'll return. I'll swear she's dead,
And thrown into the sea.-But I'll see further;
Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,
Not carry her aboard. If she remain,

Whom they have ravished, must by me be slain.

[Exit.

SCENE III. Mitylene. A Room in a Brothel.

Enter PANDER, Bawd, and Boult.

Pand. Boult.

Boult. Sir.

Pand. Search the market narrowly; Mitylene is full of gallants. We lost too much money this mart, by being too wenchless.

Bawd. We were never so much out of creatures. We have but poor three, and they can do no more than they can do; and with continual action are even as good as rotten.

Pand. 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 say'st 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.1 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 say'st true; they are too unwholesome

galleon of Andalusia. His ship being disabled, he was taken by sir Francis Drake, on the 22d of July, 1588, and sent to Dartmouth. This play was not written, we may conclude, till after that period. The making one of this Spaniard's ancestors a pirate, was probably relished by the audience in those days.

1 I have brought up (i. e. educated), says the bawd, some eleven. Yes, answers Boult, to eleven (i. e. as far as eleven years of age), and then brought them down again.

o' conscience. The poor Transilvanian is dead, that lay with the little baggage.

Boult. Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast meat for worms :-but I'll go search the market. [Exit BOULT.

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?

Pand. O, our credit comes not in like the commodity; nor the commodity wages not with the danger; therefore, if in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate, 'twere not amiss 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.

Enter the Pirates, and BOULT, dragging in MARINA. Boult. Come your ways. [To MARINA.]-My masters, you say she's a virgin?

1 Pirate. O'sir, we doubt it not.

Boult. Master, I have gone thorough 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 excellent good clothes; 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.

1 i. e. is not equal to it.

2 A hatch is a half-door, sometimes placed within a street-door, preventing access farther than the entry of a house. When the top of a hatch was guarded by a row of spikes, no person could reach over and undo its fastening, which was always withinside and near its bottom. 3 i. e. bid a high price for her.

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.

[Exeunt PANDER and Pirates.

Bawd. Boult, take you the marks of her; the color 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 were no cheap thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done as I command you.

Boult. Performance shall follow.

[Exit BOULT.

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

(He should have struck, not spoke ;) or that these

pirates

(Not enough barbarous) had not overboard

Thrown me, 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 lit 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?

Mar. Are you a woman?

Bawd. What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?

Mar. An honest woman, or not a woman.

Bawd. Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have something to do with you. Come, you are a young, foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have you.

1 i. e. unripe, unskilful.