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and reforme your life by it it will teach you to saue both body and soule in the day of the Lord. Thais My Sophronius this kind of life which I lead is common yea many Ladyes and gallant Women commit the same fault though not so commonly knowen as our life is Sophro. It may be most true but the more is the pittie yet ought not we to follow an e●ill example no not in great ones neither should we follow a multitude to doe euill Thais Why then I pray you Sophronius doe you set on mee as if I were alone thus ill disposed Haue you since your returne instructed any other of this life if not you seeme to mee to single out mee from all other as if I were the greatest Sinner Sophro. O Thais Thais I haue not talked with many since my arriuall but I first come to thee because with griefe of heart I speake it I haue liued dissolutly with thee and whereas I doe kindly admonish thee thou hast cause to take it in good part and make good vse of it Neither doe I iudge thee to be the greatest Sinner this way but I know that you and I are great sinners therefore let vs both repent and craue mercie of God in the mediation of Iesus Christ Thais If you wish mee well my Sophronius as you pretend and tender my saluation as you say speake on and I will heare you gladly Sophro. And I will doe it chearefully But first let me intreat thee to answere mee to one or two questions Thais I shall most willingly my Sophornius Sophro. Tell mee Thais Haue you not some Diuines that wish you euill Thais Yes too many Sophro. Would you willingly doe that thing which is euill to procure your owne destruction and to minister matter of ioy vnto them Thais No verily I would rather giue them Poyson to bane them Sophr. You speake indeed like a naturall Woman for before we be regenerate Luke we all Hate our Enemies we are ready to render euill for euill we are eager to reuenge our selues but our Lord Iesus doth teach vs not to resist Euill For Vengeance is mine saith the Lord I will repay But to returne to that which you say you would not doe and yet you doe commonly Thais Not so my Sophronius I hope Sophro. Yes Thais it is too euident as hereafter I will shew you more at large But tell mee againe Thais Would you willingly doe that which should offende your deare Friends Thais No verily Sophro. I but your euill and vncleane life doth not onely greatly grieue but much offende your Parents your Breathren and Sisters and your Kinsfolke You haue renounced all naturall affections vnto them vnto whom by nature you are most neerely ioyned they are ashamed of thee and thou art ashamed to come in their sight Thais Though I haue changed some few Friendes and haue renounced my affections to them yet I haue by this kind of life which I liue gotten me many more Friendes whereof you are one whom I esteemed all wayes as my Brother Sophro. Let these wordes passe and consider seriously of the matter as it is You which thinke you haue so many Friendes haue no Friend beleeue mee my Thais for they which come vnto thee esteeme thee not for a Friend but vse thee as a Harlot Consider then thou miserable Woman into what mischiefe thou hast throwne thy selfe Christ Iesus the Sonne of GOD esteemed thee so deare that hee redeemed thee not with corruptible thinges as Siluer and Gold but with his precious Blood that hee might make thee one of his members the Child of God and an inheritour of the kingdome of Heauen And thou makest thy selfe a publike Sinke in which euey filthy vncleane and scabbie person doth discharge their filthinesse And if as yet that infectious Leprosie which some call the Spanish Pip some the French Pox hath not touched thee yet thou canst not long escape it which if it come to passe who can be more miserable then thou though all other things else prosper well with thee Weigh with thy selfe thy substaunce and thy report what else shalt thou be then a liuing Carkasse Thou wert grieued to obey thy Mother now thou seruest Dorio a shamelesse Baud. It wearied thee to heare the Admonitions of thy Parents but now often times thou art beaten of Whore-maisters frantique Fornicators It was irkesome to thee to doe any worke at home whereby thou mightest get thy liuings but now What watchings what tumults what intollerable indignities dost thou indure of these filthy vnchast persons to whom thou dost prostitute thy body Parmenio I le be sworne Sophronius you seeme to be new changed indeed for from a gallant youthfull Gentleman you are transformed to a Puritane Preacher but I thinke if Dorio were here you would turne your tale and change your coppie shee would hold you ●acke and make you sing a new Song and I purpose presently to fetch her Sophro. You speake Parmeno as you are you are a goodly Apple-squire a Pander to such Punks as Thais is you draw by one line are an vpholder of bawdry and though you fetch that old Baud neither she nor you shall make me goe from that truth which I haue spoken and if you make hast you shall finde me here to auerre that I haue vttered And now Thais consider with me that this flower of thy beautie which procureth thee Louers it will shortly vanish away for either sicknesse or age will deface it what wilt thou then doe thou wretched woman No Dung-hill will be abhorred more then thou Then of a Harlot thou must become a Baud for such are the proceedings of your wicked trade which if it happen what can be more vile What can approch nearer vnto the Deuils malice Thais I confesse my Sophronius that all these things which thou sayest are true but tell me I pray you from whence you haue learned this holines You were wont to be a good fellow and to delight in me no man came more often to me and more vntimely then you Come you not lately from Rome Sophro. Yes I came from Rome very lately as before I tould you Thais I wonder not a little that you are so transformed my Sophronius for commonly they which goe to Rome returne not better but much worse how then are you growne so Godly Sophro. I will tell thee my Thais Because I went not with the same minde nor after the same fashion that many young Gentlemen and others doe for they goe to Rome to see the Pope that Antichrist Papastupor Mundi the wonder of the world to see and learne Italian trickes to learne to court and serue their Mistris And I will tell thee Thais the occasions to make a man a Libertine are there abundantly offered for a man may be there what he will so hee shew not any liking of godlynesse and honestie and therefore no maruaile though they that haue been at Rome for the