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congealed ice; that I know to be true. And he is a motion ungenerative; that’s
infallible. [105]
DUKE
You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.
LUCIO
Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the rebellion of a codpiece to
take away the life of a man! Would the Duke that is absent have done this?
Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a hundred [110] bastards,
he would have paid for the nursing a thousand. He had some feeling of the
sport; he knew the service; and that instructed him to mercy.
DUKE
I have never heard the absent Duke much detected for women; he was not
inclined that way. [115]
LUCIO
O sir, you are deceived.
DUKE
’Tis not possible.
LUCIO
Who, not the Duke? Yes, your beggar of fifty; and his use was to put a ducat
in her clack-dish; the Duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too, that
let [120] me inform you.
DUKE
You do him wrong, surely.
LUCIO
Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the Duke; and I believe I know
the cause of his withdrawing. [125]
DUKE
What, I prithee, might be the cause?
