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DUKE

I know none: can you tell me of any?

LUCIO
Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other some, he is in Rome: but
where is he, think you?

DUKE
I know not where: but wheresoever, I wish him [85] well.

LUCIO
It was a mad, fantastical trick of him to steal from the state and usurp the

beggary he was never born to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence: he
puts transgression to’t. [90]

DUKE
He does well in’t.

LUCIO
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him. Something too
crabbed that way, friar.

DUKE
It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.

LUCIO

Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it [95] is well allied; but it
is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down. −
They say this Angelo was not made by man and woman, after this downright
way of creation: is it true, think you?

DUKE

How should he be made, then? [100]

LUCIO

Some report, a sea-maid spawned him. Some, that he was begot between
two stockfishes. But it is certain that when he makes water, his urine is