Howell. Where Cato first had saved a thief from death,
And after was himself condemn’d to die,
When else not one would execute the doom,
Who but the thief did undertake the task?
If too much bounty work so bad effects
In thankless friends, what for a ruthless foe?
Let laws have still their course: the ill-dispos’d
Grudge at their lives to whom they owe too much.
Arthur. But yet where men with reconciled minds
Renew their love with recontinued grace,