Page 1198 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman, [240]
Compact with her that’s gone: think’st thou thy oaths,
Though they would swear down each particular saint,
Were testimonies against his worth and credit,

That’s seal’d in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,
Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains [245]
To find out this abuse, whence ’tis deriv’d.
There is another friar that set them on;

Let him be sent for.

FRIAR PETER
Would he were here, my lord; for he indeed
Hath set the women on to this complaint. [250]
Your Provost knows the place where he abides,
And he may fetch him.

DUKE
Go, do it instantly.
[Exit an Attendant.]
And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,
Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,

Do with your injuries as seems you best [255]
In any chastisement. I for a while will leave you;
But stir not you till you have well determin’d
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? [260]

LUCIO
Cucullus non facit monachum: honest in nothing but in his clothes, and one

that hath spoke most villainous speeches of the Duke.

ESCALUS