FRIAR PETER.
Would he were here, my lord; for he indeed
Hath set the women on to this complaint.
Your Provost knows the place where he abides,
And he may fetch him.
DUKE.
Go, do it instantly.
[Exit Provost.]
And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,
Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,
Do with your injuries as seems you best
In any chastisement. I for a while
Will leave you; but stir not you till you have
Well determined upon these slanderers.
ESCALUS.
My lord, we’ll do it throughly.
[Exit Duke.]
Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?
LUCIO.
Cucullus non facit monachum, honest in nothing but in his clothes, and one that hath spoke most villainous speeches of the Duke.
ESCALUS.
We shall entreat you to abide here till he come, and enforce them against him. We shall find this friar a notable fellow.
LUCIO.
As any in Vienna, on my word.