He looks honest.
First Citizen
That be his villany: knaves nowadays do look so honest that honest folk are forced to look like knaves so as to be different.
[Enter the Headman, who takes his stand behind Guido.]
Second Citizen
Yon be the headsman then! O Lord! Is the axe sharp, think you?
First Citizen
Ay! sharper than thy wits are; but the edge is not towards him, mark you.
Second Citizen [scratching his neck]
I’ faith, I like it not so near.