Pom. A woman.
85 Mrs Ov. But what’s his offence?
Pom. Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
Mrs Ov. What, is there a maid with child by him?
Pom. No, but there’s a woman [with maid] by him.
You have not heard of the proclamation, have you?
90 Mrs Ov. What proclamation, man?
Pom. All [houses] in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.
Mrs Ov. And what shall become of those in the city?
Pom. They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too, 95 but that a wise burgher put in for them.