The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston

Author:John Marston
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472568977
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

[5.2] Enter BEATRICE and CRISPINELLA.

BEATRICE Sister, cannot a woman kill herself? Is it not lawful to die when we should not live?

CRISPINELLA O sister, ’tis a question not for us; we must do what God will.

5 BEATRICE What God will? Alas, can torment be his glory, or our grief his pleasure? Does not the nurse’s nipple juiced over with wormwood bid the child it should not suck? And does not heaven, when it hath made our breath bitter unto us, say we should not 10 live? O my best sister –

To suffer wounds when one may ’scape this rod

Is against nature, that is, against God.

CRISPINELLA

Good sister, do not make me weep. Sure, Freevill was not false.

I’ll gage my life that strumpet, out of craft

15 And some close second end, hath maliced him.

BEATRICE

O sister, if he were not false, whom have I lost?

If he were, what grief to such unkindness!

From head to foot, I am all misery.

Only in this, some justice I have found:

20 My grief is like my love, beyond all bound.

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