_Duke._ I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well. 85 _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. _Duke._ He does well in't. 90 _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; 95 it 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 stock-fishes. But it is certain that, when he makes water, his urine is congealed ice; that I know to be true: and he is a motion generative; 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 bastards, 110 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 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 me 120 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? _Lucio._ No, pardon; 'tis a secret must be locked within the teeth and the lips: but this I can let you understand, the greater file of the subject held the Duke to be wise. _Duke._ Wise! why, no question but he was. 130 _Lucio._ A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.