_Mal._ Of ill you merit well. My heart's good friend, Leave yet at length, at length; for know this ever, 'Tis no such sin to err, but to persever. _Free._ Beauty is woman's virtue, love the life's music, and woman the dainties, or second course of heaven's curious workmanship. Since then beauty, love, and woman are good, how can the love of woman's beauty be bad? and, _Bonum, quo communius, eo melius_: wilt then go with me? 152 _Mal._ Whither? _Free._ To a house of salvation. _Mal._ Salvation? _Free._ Yes, 'twill make thee repent. Wilt go to the family of love?[11] I will show thee my creature; a pretty nimble-ey'd Dutch tanakin;[12] an honest soft-hearted impropriation; a soft, plump, round-cheek'd froe,[13] that has beauty enough for her virtue, virtue enough for a woman, and woman enough for any reasonable man in my knowledge. Wilt pass along with me? 162 _Mal._ What, to a brothel?--to behold an impudent prostitution;[14] fie on't, I shall hate the whole sex to see her. The most odious spectacle the earth can present is an immodest vulgar woman. _Free._ Good still; my brain shall keep't. You must go as you love me. _Mal._ Well, I'll go to make her loath the shame she's in; The sight of vice augments the hate of sin. 170 _Free._ The sight of vice augments the hate of sin! Very fine, perdy! [_Exeunt._ [1] In the old eds., opposite the title, is written, "Turpe est difficiles habere nugas." The quotation is from Martial, ii. 86. [2] Spanish leather was held in great esteem.--See Middleton, viii. 70. [3] The word "nest" was frequently written "neast." (Cotgrave has--"_Nicher._ To _neastle_, build or make a _neast_ in;" "_Nid_: neast.") A "nest of goblets" was a large goblet containing several others of gradually diminishing size. [4] A cross-bow for shooting stones or bullets. ("_Arbaleste à boulet._" A _stone-bow_.--_Cotgrave._) [5] A debtor was said to have _day_ (or _longer day_) when his creditors allowed him to defer payment. [6] "Take say" is used here with a double meaning. "Say" was a sort of delicate serge; but the waiting-woman _takes say_ (_i.e._, assay) because she tastes before her mistress (and is suitably rewarded for her lickorousness). [7] A play on words: (1) case; (2) kaze ( = _pudendum muliebre_). [8] Compare the witticism of Julia, daughter of Augustus, in Macrobius (_Saturn._, ii. 5). [9] Ed. 2. "you." [10] Old eds. "quite" and "quit." [11] For an account of the religious sect called _The Family of Love_, see Middleton, iii. 3-5.