of danger all the day;
At night, with sullen pleasure, grumbles o'er his prey. [_Exeunt._

ACT IV.

SCENE I.--_Before Gomez's Door._

_Enter_ LORENZO, DOMINICK, _and two Soldiers at a distance._

_Dom._ I'll not wag an ace farther: the whole world shall not bribe me
to it; for my conscience will digest these gross enormities no longer.

_Lor._ How, thy conscience not digest them! There is ne'er a friar in
Spain can shew a conscience, that comes near it for digestion. It
digested pimping, when I sent thee with my letter; and it digested
perjury, when thou swor'st thou didst not know me: I am sure it has
digested me fifty pounds, of as hard gold as is in all Barbary.
Pr'ythee, why shouldest thou discourage fornication, when thou knowest
thou lovest a sweet young girl?

_Dom._ Away, away; I do not love them;--pah; no,--[_spits._] I do not
love a pretty girl--you are so waggish!-- [_Spits again._

_Lor._ Why thy mouth waters at the very mention of them.

_Dom._ You take a mighty pleasure in defamation, colonel; but I wonder
what you find in running restless up and down, breaking your brains,
emptying your purse, and wearing out your body, with hunting after
unlawful game.

_Lor._ Why there's the satisfaction on't.

_Dom._ This incontinency may proceed to adultery, and adultery to
murder, and murder to hanging; and there's the satisfaction on't.

_Lor._ I'll not hang alone, friar; I'm resolved to peach thee before
thy superiors, for what thou hast done already.

_Dom._ I'm resolved to forswear it, if you do. Let me advise you
better, colonel, than to accuse a church-man to a church-man; in the
common cause we are all of a piece; we hang together.

_Lor._ If you don't, it were no matter if you did. [_Aside._

_Dom._ Nay, if you talk of peaching, I'll peach first, and see whose
oath will be believed; I'll trounce you for offering to corrupt my
honesty, and bribe my conscience: you shall be summoned by an host of
parators; you shall be sentenced in the spiritual court; you shall be
excommunicated; you shall be outlawed;--and--
[_Here_ LORENZO _takes a purse, and plays with it,
and at last lets the purse fall chinking on the
ground, which the Friar eyes._
[_In another tone._] I say, a man might do this now, if he were
maliciously disposed, and had a mind to bring matters to extremity:
but, considering that you are my fr