These poor [informal] women are no more
235 But instruments of some more [mightier] member
That sets them on: let me have way, my lord,
To find this practice out.
Duke.
Ay, with my heart;
And punish them [to] your height of pleasure.
Thou foolish friar; and thou pernicious woman,
240 Compact with her that’s gone, think’st thou thy oaths,
Though they would swear down each particular saint,