Mytilene. Before a Brothel.
 Enter PANDAR, BAWD, and BOULT.

Pandar	Boult!

Boult	Sir?

Pandar	Search the market narrowly; Mytilene 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 they 
	with continual action are even as good as rotten.

Pandar	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 sayst true; 'tis not our 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.

Pandar	Thou sayst true; there's two unwholesome, a' 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. But I'll go search the market.
										[Exit.

Pandar	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?

Pandar	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 
	o'er.

Bawd	Come, other sorts offend as well as we.

Pandar	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?

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

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 excellent good 
	clothes; there's no further necessity of qualities can make 
	her be refused.

Bawd	What's her price, Boult?

Boult	It cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.

Pandar	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 PANDAR and PIRATES.

Bawd	Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her hair, 
	complexion, height, her 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.
Marina	Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!
	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?

Marina	That I am pretty.

Bawd	Come, the gods have done their part in you.

Marina	I accuse them not.

Bawd	You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.

Marina	The more my fault
	To 'scape his hands where I was like to die.

Bawd	Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.

Marina	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?

Marina	Are you a woman?

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

Marina	An honest woman, or not a woman.

Bawd	Marry, whip the gosling! I think I shall have something to 
	do with you. Come, you're a young foolish sapling, and must 
	be bowed as I would have you.

Marina	The gods defend me!

Bawd	If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men must 
	comfort you, men must feed 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. There was a Spaniard's mouth 
	watered, and he went to bed to her very description.

Bawd	We shall have him here tomorrow with his best ruff on.

Boult	Tonight, tonight. But, mistress, do you know the French 
	knight that cowers i'the hams?

Bawd	Who, Monsieur Veroles?

Boult	Ay, he; he offered to cut a caper at the proclamation, but 
	he made a groan at it, and swore he would see her tomorrow.

Bawd	Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease hither - 
	here he does but repair it. I know he will come in our 
	shadow to scatter his crowns in the sun.

Boult	Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we should 
	lodge them with this sign.

Bawd	[To MARINA.] Pray you come hither awhile. You have fortunes 
	coming upon you. Mark me, you must seem to do that 
	fearfully which you commit willingly, despise profit where 
	you have most gain. To weep that you live as ye do makes 
	pity in your lovers. Seldom but that pity begets you a good 
	opinion, and that opinion a mere profit.

Marina	I understand you not.

Boult	O, take her home, mistress, take her home. These blushes of 
	hers must be quenched with some present practice.

Bawd	Thou sayst true, i'faith, so they must, for your bride goes 
	to that with shame which is her way to go with warrant.

Boult	Faith, some do and some do not. But, mistress, if I have 
	bargained for the joint-

Bawd	Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.

Boult	I may so?

Bawd	Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the manner of 
	your garments well.

Boult	Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.

Bawd	[Giving money.] Boult, spend thou that in the town. Report 
	what a sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom. 
	When nature framed this piece, she meant thee a good turn; 
	therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou hast the 
	harvest out of thine own report.

Boult	I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake the bed 
	of eels as my giving out her beauty stirs up the lewdly 
	inclined. I'll bring home some tonight.

Bawd	[To MARINA.] Come your ways, follow me.

Marina	If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
	Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
	Diana, aid my purpose!

Bawd	What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with 
	us?
										[Exeunt.
