morrow in your execution. If you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if not, use him for the present, and dismiss him. He cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.

Abh. A bawd, sir? Fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery.1

Pro. Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn the scale.

[Exit.

Clown. Pray, sir, by your good favor, (for, surely, sir, a good favor 2 you have, but that you have a hanging look) do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?

Abh. Ay, sir, a mystery.

Clown. Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery: but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be hanged, I cannot imagine. Abh. Sir, it is a mystery.

Clown. Proof.

Abh. Every true 3 man's apparel fits your thief: if it be too little for your thief, your true man thinks it big enough; if it be too big for your thief, your thief thinks it little enough: so every true man's apparel fits your thief.

Trade.

2 Countenance.

3 Honest.

SHAK.

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