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ESCALUS
Your mistress’ name?
POMPEY
Mistress Overdone.
ESCALUS
Hath she had any more than one husband? [190]
POMPEY
Nine, sir; Overdone by the last.
ESCALUS
Nine! − Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master Froth, I would not have you
acquainted with tapsters; they will draw you, Master Froth, and you will hang
them. Get you gone, and let me hear no more of you. [195]
FROTH
I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never come into any room in a
tap-house, but I am drawn in.
ESCALUS
Well: no more of it, Master Froth: farewell. [Exit Froth.] Come you hither to
me, Master tapster. What’s [200] your name, Master tapster?
POMPEY
Pompey.
ESCALUS
What else?
POMPEY
Bum, sir.
ESCALUS
Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about [205] you; so that, in the
beastliest sense, you are Pompey the Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd,
