A select collection of old plays . 5Tis Pityfhes a Whore : A TRAGEDY. ACtns primus. Enter Friar and Giovanni, IS P U T E no more in this, for know, young man,Thefe are no fchool- points ; nice philofophyMay tolerate unlikely arguments,But heaven admits no jeft ; wits thatpreium dOn wit too much, by ilriving how to prove. There was no God, with foolifh grounds of art, Dif- Tis Pity Jhes a Whore. 177 Difcoverd firft the neareft way to Hell;And filld the world with devlifli queilions youth are fond : far better tisTo blefs the fun, than reafon why it mines ;Yet he thou talkft of is a
A select collection of old plays . 5Tis Pityfhes a Whore : A TRAGEDY. ACtns primus. Enter Friar and Giovanni, IS P U T E no more in this, for know, young man,Thefe are no fchool- points ; nice philofophyMay tolerate unlikely arguments,But heaven admits no jeft ; wits thatpreium dOn wit too much, by ilriving how to prove. There was no God, with foolifh grounds of art, Dif- Tis Pity Jhes a Whore. 177 Difcoverd firft the neareft way to Hell;And filld the world with devlifli queilions youth are fond : far better tisTo blefs the fun, than reafon why it mines ;Yet he thou talkft of is above the more ; I may not hear it. Gio. Gentle father,To you I have unclafpd my burdend foul,,Emptyd the ftore-houfe of my thoughts and heart,Made myfelf poor of fecrets; have not leftAnother word untold, which hath not fpokeAll what I ever durft, or think, or know;And yet is here the comfort I mall have ?Muft I not do what all men elfe may, love ? Fr. Yes, you may love, fair fon. Gio. Muft I not praifeThat beauty, which, if framd a-new, the godsWould make a god of, if they had it there ;And kneel to it,-as I do kneel to them ? Fr. Why, foolifh mad-man! Gio. Shall a peevifh found,A cuftomary form, from man to man,Of brother and of fifter, be a barTwixt my perpetual happinefs and me?Say that we had one fath
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