The White Devil Quotes

Vit. …They told me my intent was to root up That well-grown yew, and plant i' the stead of it A wither'd blackthorn; and for that they vow'd To bury me alive. (1.2)

Flam. So would I; I would the common'st courtesan in Rome Had been my mother, rather than thyself. Nature is very pitiful to whores, To give them but few children, yet those children Plurality of f...

Cam. …Your silkworm used to fast every third day, and the next following spins the better. To-morrow at night, I am for you. (1.2)

Vit. …Take it for words—O woman's poor revengeWhich dwells but in the tongue, I will not weep…(3.2)

Corn. What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious? (1.2)

Flam. …Her coyness! that 's but the superficies of lust most women have; yet why should ladies blush to hear that named, which they do not fear to handle? Oh, they are politic; they know our desi...

Giov. What do the dead do, uncle? do they eat, Hear music, go a-hunting, and be merry, As we that live?Fran. No, coz; they sleep.Giov. Lord, Lord, that I were dead! I have not slept these six night...

Lodo. I am ever bound to you. This is the world's alms; pray make use of it. Great men sell sheep, thus to be cut in pieces, When first they have shorn them bare, and sold their fleeces. (1.1.)

Lodo. …Fortune's a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop. (1.1)