Lod. To th' full; and I think the cuckold catch'd the cuckold-makers.
Ver. 'Twas a neat penance; but, O the art of woman in the performance!
Lod. Pshaw, sir, 'tis nothing: had she been in her gran'am's place—
Had not the devil first begun the sin,
And cheated her, she would have cheated him.
Ver. Let all to rest: and, noble sir, i' th' morning
With a small private train we are for Milan.
Vice for a time may shine, and virtue sigh;
But truth, like heaven's sun, plainly doth reveal,
And scourge or crown, what darkness did conceal.
FOOTNOTES:
[149] This expression occurs in "Pericles, Prince of Tyre," act ii. sc, 1—
"Look how thou stirrest now:
Come away, I'll fetch thee with a wannion."
Again, in Ben Jonson's "Devil is an Ass"—
"And a cuckold is,
Where'er he put his head with a wannion,
If his horns be forth, the devil's companion!"
[And in a thousand other places.]