The Famous Whore, or Noble Curtizan Garvase Markham Kaylah Agard, transcriber and encoder Naya Joseph, proofreader Andie Silva, proofreader and encoder Collaboratory for Writing and Research on Culture (CWRC https://cwrc.ca) and Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF https://leaf-vre.org). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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 Garvase Markham The Famous Whore, or Noble Curtizan: conteining the lamentable complaint of Paulina, the famous Roman curtizan, sometimes mes. unto the grreat cardinall Hypolito, of Est. Printed by N.O.for John Budge and are to be sold at shop by the great South gate of Paules. 1609 Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery STC 17359

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GENTLEMEN, I hauehave aduentured adventured to bring a whore into your company, but with no bad intent, but to give you honest Recreation, not to hurt you in purse or body: Therefore you must thinke think this is a famous strange whore: for shee she seekes seeks the hurt of no man. Wrong her not then, but giuegive her kind welcome out of Italy: for she hath had bin been a meeremere stranger to our English nation till this howre hour . And yet Gentlemen you know some of her kindred: Therefore loue love her, for their sakes whom you loue love , and let us shewshow our seluesselves as courteous as Italians, and except accept her kindly,

Farewell.