King. Upon thy certainty and confidence

What darest thou venture?

Hel. Tax of impudence,

A strumpet's boldness, a divulged [shame]

Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name

[Sear'd otherwise, ne worse of] worst extended,

With vilest torture let my life be ended.

King. Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth [speak]

His powerful sound [within] an organ weak:

And what impossibility would slay