’Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox on lambskins too, to signify that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "’Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox on lambskins too, to signify that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing." in the context of "William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, III, ii, Pompey" to mean that wisdom is timeless.