The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is, and steal out of your company.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
So may the outward shows be least themselves, the world is still deceived with ornament.
O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
In thy foul throat thou liest!
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I’ll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture tell them that God bids us do good for evil; and thus I clothe my naked villany with old odd ends stol’n forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil.
All hoods make not monks.
