19991904Keeper Is our whole dissembly appeard?

20001905Cowley O a stoole and a cushion for the Sexton.

20011906Sexton Which be the malefactors?

20021907Andrew Mary that am I, and my partner.

20031908Cowley Nay thats certaine, we haue the exhibition to exa-

20041909mine.

20051910Sexton But which are the offenders? that are to be exami-

20061911ned, let them come before maister constable.

20071912Kemp Yea mary, let them come before mee, what is your

20081913name, friend?

20091914Bor. Borachio.

20101915Ke. Pray write downe Borachio. Yours sirra.

20111916Con. I am a gentleman sir, and my name is Conrade.

20121917Ke. Write downe maister gentleman Conrade: maisters,

20131918do you serue God?

1919Both Yea sir we hope.

1920Kem. Write downe, that they hope they serue God: and

1921write God first, for God defend but God shoulde goe before

1922such villaines: maisters, it is prooued alreadie that you are little

20141923better than false knaues, and it will go neere to be thought so

20151924shortly, how answer you for your selues?

20171925Con. Mary sir we say, we are none.

20181926Kemp A maruellous witty fellowe I assure 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 false knaues.

20221929Bor. Sir, I say to you, we are none.

20231930Kemp VVel, stand aside, fore God they are both in a tale:

20241931haue you writ downe, that they are none?

20251932Sexton Master constable, you go not the way to examine,

20261933you must call foorth the watch that are their accusers.

20281934Kemp Yea mary, thats the eftest way, let the watch come

20291935forth: masters, I charge you in the Princes name accuse these

20301936men.

20311937Watch 1 This man said sir, that don Iohn the Princes bro-

20321938ther was a villaine.

20331939Kemp Write downe, prince Iohn a villaine: why this is flat

20341940periurie, to call a Princes brother villaine.

20351941Borachio Maister Constable.

20361942Kemp Pray thee fellowe peace, I doe not like thy looke I

20371943promise thee.

20381944Sexton VVhat heard you him say else?

20391945Watch 2 Mary that he had receiued a thousand duckats of

20401946don Iohn, for accusing the Ladie Hero wrongfully.

20421947Kemp Flat burglarie as euer was committed.

20431948Const. Yea by masse that it is.

20441949Sexton VVhat else fellow?

20451950Watch 1 And that Counte Claudio did meane vppon his

20461951wordes, to disgrace Hero before the whole assemblie, and not

20471952marrie her.

20481953Kemp O villaine! thou wilt be condemnd into euerlasting

20491954redemption for this.

20501955Sexton VVhat else? Watch This is all.

20521956Sexton And this is more masters then you can deny, prince

20531957Iohn is this morning secretlie stolne awaie: Hero was in this

20541958manner accusde, in this verie manner refusde, and vppon the

20551959griefe of this, sodainlie died: Maister Constable, let these men

20561960be bound, and brought to Leonatoes, I will goe before and

20571961shew him their examination.

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 officer Coxcombe: come, bind them, thou naugh-

20621966ty varlet.

20631967Couley Away, you are an asse, you are an asse.

20641968Kemp Doost thou not suspect my place? doost thou not

20651969suspect my yeeres? O that he were here to write me downe an

20661970asse! but maisters, remember that I am an asse, though it bee

20671971not written downe, yet forget not that I am an asse: No thou

20681972villaine, thou art full of pietie as shal be prou'de vpon thee by

20691973good witnes, I am a wise fellow, and which is more, an officer,

20701974and which is more, a housholder, and which is more, as pret-

20711975ty a peece of flesh as anie is in Messina, and one that knowes

20721976the Law, goe to, and a rich fellow enough, go to, and a fellow

20731977that hath had losses, and one that hath two gownes, and euery

20741978thing hansome about him: bring him away: O that I had bin

20751979writ downe an asse!