that's the utmost of his pilgrimage. Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law: bring them away. How now, sir! What's your name? and what's the matter? If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honour two notorious benefactors. Benefactors? Well; what benefactors are they? are they not malefactors? If it? please your honour, I know not well what they are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure of; and void of all profanation in the world that good Christians ought to have. This comes off well; here's a wise officer. Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow? He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow. What are you, sir? He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too. How know you that? My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,-- How? thy wife? Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,-- Dost thou detest her therefore? I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house, it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house. How dost thou know that, constable? Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman cardinally given, might have been accused in fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there. By the woman's means? Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she spit in his face, so she defied him. Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so. Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable man; prove it. Do you hear how he misplaces? Sir, she came in great with child; and longing, saving your honour's reverence, for stewed prunes; sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a