The damnd, with more ease may ascend from Hell,

Then we ariue at her. One Cerberus there

Forbids the passage, in our Courts a thousand,

As lowd, and fertyle headed, and the Client [75]

That wants the sops, to fill their rauenous throats,

Must hope for no accesse: why should I then

Attempt impossibilities: you friend, being

Too well acquainted with my dearth of meanes,

To make my entrance that way?

Rom. Would I were not. [80] But Sir, you haue a cause, a cause so iust, Of such necessitie, not to be deferd, As would compell a mayde, whose foot was neuer Set ore her fathers threshold, nor within The house where she was borne, euer spake word, [85] Which was not vshered with pure virgin blushes, To drowne the tempest of a pleaders tongue, And force corruption to giue backe the hire It tooke against her: let examples moue you. You see great men in birth, esteeme and fortune, [90] Rather then lose a scruple of their right, Fawne basely vpon such, whose gownes put off, They would disdaine for Seruants. 

Would I were not. [80]

But Sir, you haue a cause, a cause so iust,

Of such necessitie, not to be deferd,

As would compell a mayde, whose foot was neuer

Set ore her fathers threshold, nor within

The house where she was borne, euer spake word, [85]

Which was not vshered with pure virgin blushes,

To drowne the tempest of a pleaders tongue,

And force corruption to giue backe the hire

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