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Nay, but I know ’tis so. I saw him [65] arrested: saw him carried away: and
which is more, within these three days his head to be chopped off.

LUCIO
But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so. Art thou sure of this?

MISTRESS OVERDONE
I am too sure of it: and it is for getting [70] Madam Julietta with child.

LUCIO
Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two hours since, and he
was ever precise in promisekeeping.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
Besides, you know, it draws something [75] near to the speech we had to
such a purpose.

FIRST GENTLEMAN
But most of all agreeing with the proclamation.

LUCIO
Away! Let’s go learn the truth of it.
Exeunt [Lucio and Gentlemen].

MISTRESS OVERDONE

Thus, what with the war, what with [80] the sweat, what with the gallows,
and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk.
Enter Pompey.
How now? What’s the news with you?

POMPEY
Yonder man is carried to prison.

MISTRESS OVERDONE
Well! What has he done? [85]

POMPEY