The playhouse is a kind of market-place;

One chaffers for a voice, another for a face;

Nay, some of you,—I dare not say how many,—

Would buy of me a pen'worth for your penny.

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E'en this poor face, which with my fan I hide, }

Would make a shift my portion to provide, }

With some small perquisites I have beside. }

Though for your love, perhaps, I should not care,

I could not hate a man that bids me fair.