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Passing through the city prison in Measure for Measure, the disguised Duke Vincentio encounters a new inmate. Maintaining the guise of a friar, the Duke criticizes the prisoner for his reprehensible livelihood:
The evil that thou causest to be done, That is thy means to live. Do thou but think What ‘tis to cram a maw or clothe a back, From such a filthy vice.
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Semple, E. (2013). Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare’s Bawds. In: Loughnane, R., Semple, E. (eds) Staged Transgression in Shakespeare’s England. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349354_14
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