I'll not be paid in such coin; if you have nothing better to offer, I'll let your rascalship know that it had been better for you to have fallen into Lucifer's own clutches than into ours.

Dost thou see 'em here, sirrah?
hah?
and dost thou prate here of thy being innocent, as if thou couldst be delivered from our racks and tortures for being so?
Give me--Patience! thou widgeon.

Our laws are like cobwebs; your silly little flies are stopped, caught, and destroyed therein, but your stronger ones break them, and force and carry them which way they please.

Likewise, don't think we are so mad as to set up our nets to snap up your great robbers and tyrants.

No, they are somewhat too hard for us, there's no meddling with them; for they would make no more of us than we make of the little ones.