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they are none? [30]

SEXTON
Master Constable, you go not the way to examine; you must call forth the
watch that are their accusers.

DOGBERRY
Yea, marry, that’s the eftest way; let the watch come forth. Masters, I charge
you in the Prince’s name, [35] accuse these men.

FIRST WATCHMAN
This man said, sir, that Don John, the Prince’s brother, was a villain.

DOGBERRY
Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat perjury, to call a Prince’s
brother villain. [40]

BORACHIO
Master Constable −

DOGBERRY
Pray thee, fellow, peace; I do not like thy look, I promise thee.

SEXTON
What heard you him say else?

SECOND WATCHMAN
Marry, that he had received a thousand [45] ducats of Don John for accusing

the Lady Hero wrongfully.

DOGBERRY
Flat burglary as ever was committed.

VERGES
Yea, by mass, that it is.

SEXTON