prison who may go where he will, though he be the poorest
beggar in the town. And, in good faith, uncle (because you reckon
imprisonment so small a matter of itself) meseemeth the poor beggar
who is at his liberty and may walk where he will is in better case
than is a king kept in prison, who cannot go but where men give him
leave.

ANTHONY: Well, cousin, whether every way-walking beggar be, by
this reason, out of prison or no, we shall consider further when
you will. But in the meanwhile I can by this reason see no prince
who seemeth to be out of prison. For if the lack of liberty to go
where a man will, be imprisonment, as you yourself say it is, then
is the great Turk, by whom we fear to be put in prison, in prison
already himself, for he may not go where he will. For if he could
he would go into Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and
England, and as far in the other direction too--both into Prester
John's land and into the Grand Cham's too.

Now, the beggar that you speak of, if he be (as you say he is) by
reason of his liberty to go where he will, in much better case than
a king kept in prison, because he cannot go but where men give him
leave; then is that beggar in better case, not only than a prince
in prison but also than many a prince out of prison too. For I am
sure there is many a beggar who may without hindrance walk further
upon other men's ground than many a prince at his best liberty may
walk upon his own. And as for walking out abroad upon other men's,
that prince might be withstood and held fast, where that beggar,
with his bag and staff, might be suffered to go forth and keep on
his way.

But forasmuch, cousin, as neither the beggar nor the prince is at
free liberty to walk where they will, but neither of them would be
suffered to walk in some places without men withstanding them and
saying them nay; therefore if imprisonment be, as you grant it is,
a lack of liberty to go where we please, I cannot see but the
beggar and the prince, whom you reckon both at liberty, are by your
own reason restrained in prison both.

VINCENT: Yea, but uncle, both the one and the other have way
enough to walk--the one in his own ground and the other in other
men's, or in the common highway, where they may both walk till they
be weary of walking ere any man say them nay.

ANTHONY: So may, cousin, that king who had, as you yourself put
the case, all the whole castle to walk in. And yet you deny not
that h