By overstraining the due character
Of honesty and generosity.
“Shoot not beyond the mark,” the proverb goes.
Was’t not enough that he had done us wrong,
But we must also throw him money too,
To live till he devises some new mischief?
Geta. Very right!
Dem. Knavery’s now its own reward.
Geta. Very true!
Dem. How like fools have we behav’d!