_Tyse._ No, faith, suspicious; for 'twas thus protested:
A cloak was stol'n; that cloak he had; he had it,
Himself confess'd, by force; the rest of his defence
The choler of a justice wronged in wine, 120
Join'd with malignance of some hasty jurors,
Whose wit was lighted by the justice' nose;
The knave was cast.
But, Lord, to hear his moan, his prayers, his wishes,
His zeal ill-timèd, and his words unpitied,
Would make a dead man rise and smile,
Whilst he observed how fear can make men vile.
_Cri._ Shall we go meet the execution?
_Bea._ I shall be ruled by you.
_Tyse._ By my troth, a rare motion;[106] you must haste,
For malefactors goes like the world, upon wheels. 130
_Bea._ Will you man us? You shall be our guide.
[_To_[107] FREEVILL.
_Free._ I am your servant.
_Tyse._ Ha, servant? Zounds, I am no companion for
panders! you're best make him your love.
_Bea._ So will I, sir; we must live by the quick, you say.
_Tyse._ 'Sdeath o' virtue! what a damn'd thing's this!
Who'll trust fair faces, tears, and vows? 'Sdeath! not I.
She is a woman,--that is,--she can lie.
_Cri._ Come, come, turn not a man of time,[108] to make all ill
Whose goodness you conceive not, since the worst of chance 140
Is to crave grace for heedless ignorance.
[_Exeunt._
[98] See note 1, p. 40. [Transcriber's Note: Footnote [44]]
[99] This word, which occurs in _Love's Labour Lost_ (and in
several old plays), was invented long before Shakespeare's time.
See Dyce's _Shakesp. Glossary_.
[100] So ed. 2.--Ed. 1. "_He sings, she sounds._"
[101] Swoons. (The stage direction is from ed. 2.)
[102] So ed. 1.--Ed. 2. "dead."
[103] Ed. 1. "laved."
[104] Ed. 1. "Shatews."
[105] Guilt.
[106] Proposal.
[107] The stage direction is printed as part of the text in old
eds.
[108] The text seems to be corrupt.
SCENE III.
_A Public Place._
_Enter_ COCLEDEMOY, _like a sergeant_.
_Coc._ So, I ha' lost my sergeant in an ecliptic mist,
drunk! horrible drunk! he is fine. So now will I fit
myself; I hope this habit will do me no harm; I am an
honest man already. Fit, fit, fit, as a punk's tail, that
serves everybody. By this time my vintner thinks of
nothing but hell and sulphur; he farts fire and brimstone
already. Hang toasts! the execution approacheth.
_Enter_ Sir LIONEL, Sir HUBERT; MALHEUREUX, _pinioned_;
TYSEFEW, BEATRICE, FREEVILL, CRISPINELLA, FRANCESCHINA,
_and halberds_.
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