you have answered to his reputation with the Duke and to

his valour: what is his honesty?

Par. He will steal, sir, [an egg] out of a cloister: for

rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he professes

not keeping of oaths; [in breaking 'em] he is stronger than

Hercules: he will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you

would think truth were a fool: drunkenness is his best virtue,

for he will be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does

little harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they

know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but