19971902 Enter the Constables, Borachio, and the Towne clearke 19991904Keeper Is our whole di
ssembly appeard?
20001905Cowley O a
stoole and a cu
shion for the Sexton.
20011906Sexton Which be the malefa
ctors?
20021907Andrew Mary that am I, and my partner.
20031908Cowley Nay thats certaine, we haue the exhibition to exa
- 20051910Sexton But which are the o
ffenders? that are to be exami
- 20061911ned, let them come before mai
ster con
stable.
20071912Kemp Yea mary, let them come before mee, what is your
name,
about Nothing.
20101915Ke. Pray write downe Borachio. Yours
sirra.
20111916Con. I am a gentleman
sir, and my name is Conrade.
20121917Ke. Write downe mai
ster gentleman Conrade: mai
sters,
1919Both Yea
sir we hope.
1920Kem. Write downe, that they hope they
serue God: and
1921write God
fir
st, for God defend but God
shoulde goe before
1922such villaines: mai
sters, it is prooued alreadie that you are little
20141923better than fal
se knaues, and it will go neere to be thought
so
20151924shortly, how an
swer you for your
selues?
20171925Con. Mary
sir we
say, we are none.
20181926Kemp A maruellous witty fellowe I a
ssure you, but I will
20191927go about with him: come you hither
sirra, a word in your eare
20201928sir, I
say to you it is thought you are fal
se knaues.
20221929Bor. Sir, I
say to you, we are none.
20231930Kemp VVel,
stand a
side, fore God they are both in a tale:
20241931haue you writ downe, that they are none?
20251932Sexton Ma
ster con
stable, you go not the way to examine,
20261933you mu
st call foorth the watch that are their accu
sers.
20281934Kemp Yea mary, thats the efte
st way, let the watch come
20291935forth: ma
sters, I charge you in the Princes name accu
se the
se
20311937Watch 1 This man
said
sir, that don Iohn the Princes bro
- 20331939Kemp Write downe, prince Iohn a villaine: why this is
flat
20341940periurie, to call a Princes brother villaine.
20361942Kemp Pray thee fellowe peace, I doe not like thy looke I
20381944Sexton VVhat heard you him
say el
se?
20391945Watch 2 Mary that he had receiued a thou
sand duckats of
20401946don Iohn, for accu
sing the Ladie Hero wrongfully.
20421947Kemp Flat burglarie as euer was committed.
Watch
Much adoe
20451950Watch 1 And that Counte Claudio did meane vppon his
20461951wordes, to di
sgrace Hero before the whole a
ssemblie, and not
20481953Kemp O villaine! thou wilt be condemnd into euerla
sting
20501955Sexton VVhat el
se?
Watch This is all.
20521956Sexton And this is more ma
sters then you can deny, prince
20531957Iohn is this morning
secretlie
stolne awaie: Hero was in this
20541958manner accu
sde, in this verie manner refu
sde, and vppon the
20551959griefe of this,
sodainlie died: Mai
ster Con
stable, let the
se men
20561960be bound, and brought to Leonatoes, I will goe before and
20581962Constable Come, let them be opiniond.
20591963Couley Let them be in the hands of Coxcombe.
20601964Kemp Gods my life, wheres the Sexton? let him write down
20611965the Princes o
fficer Coxcombe: come, bind them, thou naugh
- 20631967Couley Away, you are an a
sse, you are an a
sse.
20641968Kemp Doo
st thou not
su
spe
ct my place? doo
st thou not
20651969su
spe
ct my yeeres? O that he were here to write me downe an
20661970a
sse! but mai
sters, remember that I am an a
sse, though it bee
20671971not written downe, yet forget not that I am an a
sse: No thou
20681972villaine, thou art full of pietie as
shal be prou'de vpon thee by
20691973good witnes, I am a wi
se fellow, and which is more, an o
fficer,
20701974and which is more, a hou
sholder, and which is more, as pret
- 20711975ty a peece of
fle
sh as anie is in Me
ssina, and one that knowes
20721976the Law, goe to, and a rich fellow enough, go to, and a fellow
20731977that hath had lo
sses, and one that hath two gownes, and euery
20741978thing han
some about him: bring him away: O that I had bin
exit.