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ESCALUS
Well, I do so. [145]
POMPEY
Doth your honour see any harm in his face?
ESCALUS
Why, no.
POMPEY
I’ll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him. − Good,
then: if his face be the worst thing about him, how could Master Froth do the
constable’s [150] wife any harm? I would know that of your honour.
ESCALUS
He’s in the right, constable; what say you to it?
ELBOW
First, and it like you, the house is a respected house; next, this is a respected
fellow; and his mistress is a respected woman. [155]
POMPEY
By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected person than any of us all.
ELBOW
Varlet, thou liest! Thou liest, wicked varlet! The time is yet to come that she
was ever respected with man, woman, or child. [160]
POMPEY
Sir, she was respected with him, before he married with her.
ESCALUS
Which is the wiser here, Justice or Iniquity? Is this true?
ELBOW
O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked Hannibal! [165] I respected with
her, before I was married to her? If ever I was respected with her, or she with
