And when we take ourselves for other than prisoners now,
verily are we now as deceived as those prisoners would be then.
VINCENT: I cannot, uncle, in good faith deny that you have
performed all that you promised. But yet, since, for all this,
there appeareth no more but that as they are prisoners so are we
too, and that as some of them are sore handled so are some of us
too; we know well, for all this, that when we come to those prisons
we shall not fail to be in a straiter prison than we are now, and
to have a door shut upon us where we have none shut upon us now.
This shall we be sure of at least if there come no worse--and then
there may come worse, you know well, since it cometh there so
commonly. And therefore is it yet little marvel that men's hearts
grudge much against it.
ANTHONY: Surely, cousin, in this you say very well. Howbeit, your
words would have touched me somewhat the nearer if I had said that
imprisonment were no displeasure at all. But the thing that I say,
cousin, for our comfort in the matter, is that our fancy frameth us
a false opinion by which we deceive ourselves and take it for sorer
than it is. And that we do because we take ourselves for more free
before than we were, and imprisonment for a stranger thing to us
than it is indeed.
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