LOVE. You are a saucy fellow, sirrah, to call me sinner in my own house. Get you gone with your _Madam, I hear_, and _Madam, I could advise, but I am loth to speak: take heed; the world talks_;--and thus with dark sentences put my innocence into a fright, with _You know what you know, good Mistress Faithful_: so do I, and the world shall know, too, thou hast married a whore. PAR. Madam, a whore? FAITH. No, sir, 'tis not so well as a madam-whore; 'tis a poor whore, a captain's cast whore. LOVE. Now bless me, marry a whore! I wonder any man can endure those things. What kind of creatures are they? PAR. They're like ladies, but that they are handsomer; and though you take a privilege to injure me, yet I would advise your woman to tie up her tongue, and not abuse my wife. LOVE. Fie! art thou not ashamed to call a whore wife? Lord bless us, what will not these men do when God leaves them? but for a man of your coat to cast himself away upon a whore! Come, wench, let's go and leave him! I'll swear[217] 'tis strange the state doth not provide to have all whores hanged or drowned. FAITH. Ay, and 'tis time they look into it; for they begin to spread so, that a man can scarce find an honest woman in a country. They say they're voted down now; 'twas moved by that charitable member that got an order to have it but five miles to Croydon, for ease of the market-women. LOVE. Ay, ay, 'tis a blessed parliament. [_Exeunt_ LOVEALL _and_ FAITHFUL. PAR. That I have played the fool is visible. This comes of rashness. Something I must do to set this right, or else she'll hate, and he'll laugh at me. I must not lose him and my revenge too. Something that's mischief I am resolved to do. [_Exit_ PARSON. SCENE V. _Enter_ WILD _and_ CARELESS. WILD. Now is the parson's wife so contemptible? CARE. No; but I'm so full of that resolution to dislike the sex, that I will allow none honest, none handsome. I tell thee, we must beat down the price with ourselves; court none of them, but let their maidenheads and their faces lie upon their hands, till they're weary of the commodity: then they'll haunt us to find proper chapmen to deal for their ware. WILD. I like this, but 'twill be long adoing, and it may be, ere they be forced to sell, our bank will be exhausted, and we shall not be able to purchase. CARE. Ay, but we'll keep a credit, and at three six months thou and the captain shall be my factors. WILD. You had best have a partner, else such an undertaking would break a better back than yours. CARE. No partners in such commodities: your factor that takes up maidenheads, 'tis upon his own account still. WILD. But what course will you take to purchase this trade with women?