Tro. Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame[2442]
Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name! [Exit.[2443]
Pan. A goodly medicine for my aching bones![2444] 35
O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised! O[2445]
traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and[2446]
how ill requited! why should our endeavour be so loved[2447]
and the performance so loathed? what verse for it? what
instance for it? Let me see: 40
Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
And being once subdued in armed tail,[2448]
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted cloths:[2449] 45
As many as be here of Pandar's hall,
Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall;[2450]
Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,
Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.[2451]
Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,[2452] 50
Some two months hence my will shall here be made:
It should be now, but that my fear is this,
Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss:
Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,[2453]
And at that time bequeath you my diseases. [Exit.[2454] 55
FOOTNOTES:
[2120] Act v. Scene i.] Rowe. om. Q Ff.
The ... tent.] Rowe, substantially.
[2121] I'll ... tonight] With Greekish wine to-night I'll heat his blood Steevens conj.
[2122] Which ... to-morrow.] Omitted in F4 and Rowe (ed. 1).
scimitar] Rowe (ed. 2). cemitar Q F1. semitar F2 F3.