William Shakespeare quote about unmask from Much Ado About Nothing - 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.
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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.
 William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1600). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Much Ado About Nothing
Topic unmask thief rebuff
Date 1600
Language English
Reference
Note Written between 1598 and 1599
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2240/pg2240-images.html

Context

“If you meet a theefe, you may suspect him, by vertue of your office, to be no true man: and for such kinde of men, the lesse you meddle or make with them, why the more is for your honesty
watch. If wee know him to be a thiefe, shall wee not lay hands on him
Dogb. Truly by your office you may, but I think they that touch pitch will be defil'd: the most peaceable way for you, if you doe take a theefe, is, to let him shew himselfe what he is, and steale out of your company
Ver. You haue bin alwaies cal'd a merciful ma[n] partner
dog. Truely I would not hang a dog by my will, much
more a man who hath anie honestie in him Verges. If you heare a child crie in the night you must” source

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