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Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of [230] 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 whipped. [235] 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; [240]
The valiant heart’s not whipt out of his trade.

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. [245]

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 [250] 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.
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ESCALUS