VINCENT: Indeed, uncle, it is true that you said you would prove
this.
ANTHONY: Nay, so much said I not, cousin! But I said that I would
if I could, and if I could not, then would I therein give over my
part. But I trust, cousin, that I shall not need to do that--the
thing seemeth to me so plain.
For, cousin, not only the prince and king but also the chief jailor
over this whole broad prison the world (though he have both angels
and devils who are jailors under him) is, I take it, God. And that
I suppose you will grant me, too.
VINCENT: That will I not deny, uncle.
ANTHONY: If a man, cousin, be committed unto prison for no cause
but to be kept, though there be never so great a charge against
him, yet his keeper, if he be good and honest, is neither so cruel
as to pain the man out of malice, nor so covetous as to put him to
pain to make him seek his friends and pay for a pennyworth of ease.
If the place be such that he is sure to keep him safe otherwise, or
if he can get surety for the recompense of more harm than he seeth
he should have if he escaped, he will never handle him in any such
hard fashion as we most abhor imprisonment for. But marry, if the
place be such that the keeper cannot otherwise be sure, then is he
compelled to keep him to that extent the straiter.
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