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you
need not to fear the bawds.
ESCALUS. There is pretty orders beginning, I can tell you: but
it
is but heading and hanging.
POMPEY. If you head and hang all that offend that way but for
ten
year together, you'll be glad to give out a commission for
more
heads; if this law hold in Vienna ten year, I'll rent the
fairest
house in it, after threepence a bay. If you live to see this
come
to pass, say Pompey told you so.
ESCALUS. Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your
prophecy,
hark you: I advise you, let me not find you before me again
upon
any complaint whatsoever- no, not for dwelling where you do;
if I
do, Pompey, I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd
Caesar to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall have you
whipt.
So for this time, Pompey, fare you well.
POMPEY. I thank your worship for your good counsel; [Aside] but
I
shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall better
determine.
Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade;
The valiant heart's not whipt out of his trade. Exit
ESCALUS. Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master
Constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?
ELBOW. Seven year and a half, sir.
ESCALUS. I thought, by the readiness in the office, you had
continued in it some time. You say seven years together?
ELBOW. And a half, sir.
ESCALUS. Alas, it hath been great pains to you! They do you
wrong
to put you so oft upon't. Are there not men in your ward
sufficient to serve it?
ELBOW. Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters; as they are
chosen, they are glad to choose me for them; I do it for some
piece of money, and go through with all.
ESCALUS. Look you, bring me in the names of some six or seven,
the
most sufficient of your parish.
ELBOW. To your worship's house, sir?
ESCALUS. To my house. Fare you well. [Exit ELBOW]
What's o'clock, think you?
JUSTICE. Eleven, sir.
ESCALUS. I pray you home to dinner with me.
JUSTICE. I humbly thank you.
ESCALUS. It grieves me for the death of Claudio;