_Cup._ Since multitude of laws are signs either of much tyranny in the prince or much rebellious disobedience in the subject, we rather think it fit to study how to have our old laws thoroughly executed, than to have new statutes cumbrously invented. _Gon._ Afore Jove, he speaks very well. 190 _Herc._ O, sir, Love is very eloquent, makes all men good orators: himself then must needs be eloquent. _Cup._ Let it therefore be the main of our assembly to survey our old laws, and punish their transgressions; for that continually the complaints of lovers ascend up to our deity, that love is abused, and basely bought and sold, beauty['s] corrupted, affection feign'd, and pleasure herself sophisticated; that young gallants are proud in appetite and weak in performance; that young ladies are phantastically inconstant,--old ladies impudently unsatiate,--wives complain of unmarried women, that they steal the dues belonging to their sheets,--and maids exclaim upon wives, that they unjustly engross all into their own hands, as not content with their own husbands, but also purloining that which should be their comfort. Let us therefore be severe in our justice; and if any, of what degree soever, have approvedly offended, let him be instantly unpartially arrested and punished. Read our statutes. 209 _Herc._ _A statute made in the five thousand four hundred threescore and three year of the easeful reign of the mighty potent Don Cupid, emperor[283] of sighs and protestations, great king of kisses, archduke of dalliance, and sole loved of her,[284] for the maintaining and relieving of his old soldiers, maim'd or dismember'd in love._ _Don._ Those that are lightly hurt, shame to complain; those that are deeply struck are past recovery. _Cup._ On to the next. _Herc._ _An act against the plurality of mistresses._ _Cup._ Read. 220