5 Pom. ’Twas never merry world since, of two [usuries], the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed [by order of law a furred gown] to keep him warm; and furred with [fox and lamb-skins] too, to signify, that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.

10 Elb. Come your way, sir. ’Bless you, good [father] friar.

Duke. And you, good brother father. What offence hath this man made you, sir?

Elb. Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found upon him, 15 sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent to the Deputy.

Duke. Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!

The evil that thou causest to be done,

That is thy means to live. Do thou but think

What ’tis to cram a maw or clothe a back

20 From such a filthy vice: say to thyself,

From their abominable and beastly touches