Astretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow,

Masking the business from the common eye

"Mahry Lou, Ah'm not foolin' wid yo'. — Youah cuhrtain dah at mah windah, youah baid spread hyah on ma bed, youah sham hyah on ma pillah, youah rug hyah on ma floo', youah good rockin' chahr obah dah ...

He then addresses the servants of 'three usurers', who provide the occasion for his extended comparison of usury with whoremongery (2.2.89–105). The same association of usury with prostitution arises in the bawd Pompey's florid lament on the legal closure of the brothels of Vienna: