There’s nought to gain.

Petr.Why, ’tis his mother, Burrus,

His mother. I’ll be sworn he had not dared

Thus to commit himself had I been by.

He that should be a model to the world,

The mirror of good manners, to offend

Thus against taste!

Bur.If ’twere no worse ...

Petr.Why, see,

There are a hundred subtle ways by which,