All-Platonics. 'Tis granted you.
Ladies. With alimony to support our state
In this division.
Plat. Your suit is just;
Should we oppose it, we might wrong ourselves.
1st Boy. Very likely; for they mean to be made whole sharers both in their persons and personal estates. This is brave judicial brokage.
[Aside.
Flo. Speak, fellow-colleagues, shall I limit them,
What we in justice hold expedient
For th' alimonal charge proportion'd them,
And in what measure to supply their wants?
All. Do so, Florello; we shall second it.
Flo. Thus, I conceive, these ladies have resign'd
Their title, property and interest,
In whole and not in part, which they enjoy'd
In their defective husbands. Were't not just
In lieu o' th' whole, which they have here disclaim'd,
That they should seize upon the moiety
Of their revenues, whom they've here deserted
As useless instruments unto the state?
Ladies. We submit to it.