And so he is out of
prison too.
And, on the other hand, if, though his will be not longing to be
anywhere else, yet because if his will so were he should not be so
suffered, he is therefore not at his free liberty but a prisoner
still, since your free beggar that you speak of and the prince that
you call out of prison too, though they be (which I daresay few be)
by some special wisdom so temperately disposed that they will have
not the will to be anywhere but where they see that they may be
suffered to be, yet, since if they did have that will they could
not then be where they would, they lack the effect of free liberty
and are both twain in prison too.
VINCENT: Well, uncle, if every man universally is by this reason
in prison already, after the proper nature of imprisonment, yet to
be imprisoned in this special manner which alone is commonly called
imprisonment is a thing of great horror and fear, both for the
straitness of the keeping and for the hard handling that many men
have therein. Of all the griefs that you speak of, we feel nothing
at all. And therefore every man abhorreth the one, and would be
loth to come into it. And no man abhorreth the other, for they feel
no harm and find no fault therein.
Therefore, uncle, in good faith, though I cannot find fitting
answers with which to avoid your arguments, yet (to be plain with
you and tell you the very truth) my mind findeth not itself
satisfied on this point.
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