The jury, passing on [the] prisoner’s life,

20 May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two

Guiltier than him they try. What’s open made to justice,

That [justice seizes]: what [know] the laws

That theives do pass on thieves? ’Tis [very] pregnant,

The jewel that we find, we stoop and take’t,

II. 1.
25 Because we see it; but what we do not see

We tread upon, and never think of it.

You may not so extenuate his offence

For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,