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,