'Tis pity she's a whore
| dc.contributor | Gunby, David Department of English, University of Canterbury, NZ |
| dc.contributor.author | Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:23:28Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:23:28Z |
| dc.date.created | 1633 |
| dc.date.issued | 1985-03-06 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0639 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0639 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 110 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Tragedies -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.title | 'Tis pity she's a whore |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 113054 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<TITLE 'TIS PITTY SHEE'S A WHORE> <SN THE SCEANE PARMA.> TO THE TRUELY NOBLE,JOHN,EARLE OF PETERBOROUGH,LORD MORDANT,BARON OF TURVEY. MY LORD, HERE A TRUTH OF MERITT HATH A GENERALL WARRANT,THERE LOUE IS BUT A DEBT,ACKNOWLEDGEMENT A IUSTICE.GREATNESSE CANNOT OFTEN CLAIME VIRTUE BY INHERITANCE;YET IN THIS, YOVRS APPEARES MOST EMINENT, FOR THAT YOU ARE NOT MORE RIGHTLY HEYRE TO YOUR FORTUNES,THEN GLORY SHALBE TO YOUR MEMORY. SWEETENESSE OF DISPOSITION ENNOBLES A FREEDOME OF BIRTH;IN BOTH,YOUR LAWFULL INTEREST ADDS HONOUR TO YOUR OWNE NAME,AND MERCY TO MY PRESUMPTION. YOUR NOBLE ALLOWANCE OF THESE FIRST FRUITES OF MY LEASURE IN THE ACTION,EMBOLDENS MY CONFIDENCE,OF YOUR AS NOBLE CONSTRUCTION IN THIS PRESENTMENT:ESPECIALLY SINCE MY SERUICE MUST EUER OWE PARTICULAR DUTY TO YOUR FAUOURS, BY A PARTICULAR INGAGEMENT. THE GRAUITY OF THE SUBIECT MAY EASILY EXCUSE THE LEIGHTNESSE OF THE TITLE: OTHERWISE, I HAD BEEN A SEUERE IUDGE AGAINST MINE OWNE GUILT. PRINCES HAUE VOUCHSAF'T GRACE TO TRI . . .
