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ELBOW:
For being a bawd, for being a bawd.
LUCIO:
Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the
due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he
doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born.
Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison,
Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you
will keep the house.
POMPEY:
I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.
LUCIO:
No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear.
I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage: If
you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the
more. Adieu, trusty Pompey. 'Bless you, friar.
DUKE VINCENTIO:
And you.
LUCIO:
Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?
ELBOW:
Come your ways, sir; come.
POMPEY:
You will not bail me, then, sir?
LUCIO:
Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar?
what news?
ELBOW:
Come your ways, sir; come.
LUCIO:
Go to kennel, Pompey; go.
What news, friar, of the duke?
DUKE VINCENTIO:
I know none. Can you tell me of any?
LUCIO:
Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other
some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you?
DUKE VINCENTIO:
I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well.
LUCIO:
It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from
the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born
to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he
puts transgression to 't.
DUKE VINCENTIO:
He does well in 't.
LUCIO:
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
DUKE VINCENTIO:
It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.
LUCIO:
Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred;
it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp
it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put
down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and
woman after this downright way of creation: is it
true, think you?
DUKE VINCENTIO:
How should he be made, then?
LUCIO:
Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he
was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is
certain that when he makes water his urine is
congealed ice; that I know to be true: and he is a
motion generative; that's infallible.
DUKE VINCENTIO:
You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.
LUCIO:
Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the
rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a
man! Would the duke that is absent have done this?
Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a
hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing
a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he
knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.