Measure for Measure

No, but if you go on buying and selling men and women like beasts, everyone in the world will end up spawning bastards.

Oh, heavens! What nonsense is this?

Life’s become a lot less fun since the law took two crimes—prostitution and moneylending—and suppressed the one that was the most fun, while condoning the worse of the two. The thriving moneylender wraps himself in a warm fur coat, made of skins from the innocent lamb and trimmed in fur from the crafty fox, proving that craftiness is worth more than innocence.

Come along, sir. Bless you, good

father friar

this greeting makes no sense since friar means brother, hence the Duke’s mocking response

father friar .

And you, good brother father. How has this man offended you, sir?

Actually, sir, he has offended the law. And, sir, we

take him to be a thief too, sir, because we found

on him, sir, a strange device for

picking locks

presumably for picking the locks on chastity belts

picking locks , which we have sent to the deputy.

(to POMPEY) Shame,

sirrah

a title used to address a male inferior

sirrah ! A pimp, a wicked pimp! You support yourself by doing evil. Do you ever stop to think what it is to stuff your mouth or clothe your back from such a filthy vice? Say to yourself, I eat, dress myself, and live off abominable, beastly sex. Can you believe your way of life is a life, when it’s dependent on such stinking acts? Change your ways, change your ways.