Fling back the light!
2d Cit. Ay, ’tis a gallant show;
And one which serves, like others, to conceal
Things which must not be told.
3d Cit. What wouldst thou say?
2d Cit. That which may scarce, in perilous times like these,
Be said with safety. Hast thou look’d within
Those stately palaces? Were they but peopled
With the high race of warlike nobles, once
Their princely lords, think’st thou, good friend, that now