The Works of Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta


Act: 2 Scene: 3
In Trace; brought up in Arabia.
Faith, Sir, my birth is but meane, my name's Ithimor,
My profession what you please.
Oh brave, master, I worship your nose for this.
Faith, Master,
In setting christian villages on fire,
Chaining of Eunuches, binding gally-slaves.
One time I was an Hostler in an Inne,
And in the night time secretly would I steale
To travellers Chambers, and there cut their throats:
Once at Jerusalem, where the pilgrims kneel'd,
I strowed powder on the Marble stones,
And therewithall their knees would ranckle, so
That I have laugh'd agood to see the cripples
Goe limping home to Christendome on stilts.
I, I'le put her in.
Faith Master, I thinke by this
You purchase both their lives; is it not so?
Oh, master, that I might have a hand in this.
Tis poyson'd, is it not?
Feare not, I'le so set his heart a fire,
That he shall verily thinke it comes from him.
As I behave my selfe in this, imploy me hereafter.