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I’th’way of honesty.

DOCTOR
That’s but a niceness.
Ne’er cast your child away for honesty; [20]
Cure her first this way, then if she will be honest,
She has the path before her.

GAOLER
Thank ye, doctor.

DOCTOR
Pray bring her in and let’s see how she is.

GAOLER
I will, and tell her her Palamon stays for her.
But, doctor, methinks you are i’th’wrong still.
Exit.

DOCTOR

Go, go. [25]
You fathers are fine fools! Her honesty?
An we should give her physic till we find that −

WOOER
Why, do you think she is not honest, sir?

DOCTOR
How old is she?

WOOER
She’s eighteen.

DOCTOR
She may be −

But that’s all one, ’tis nothing to our purpose. [30]
Whate’er her father says, if you perceive