La-p. Tut, fear not, I'll warrant you if my Sword hold, we'll make no sweating sickness of it.
Dub. Why that's well said, but let's retire a little, that we may come on the more bravely; this way, this way. [Exeunt.
Enter Montague in the hands of three Officers, and three Creditors.
1 Cre. Officers look to him, and be sure you take good security before he part from you.
Mont. Why but my friends, you take a strange course with me; the sums I owe you are rather forgetfulness, they are so slight, than want of will or honesty to pay you.
1 Cred. I Sir, it may be so; but we must be paid, and we will be paid before you scape: we have wife and children, and a charge, and you are going down the wind, as a man may say; and therefore it behooves us to look to't in time.
2 Cred. Your cloak here wou'd satisfie me, mine's not above a three pound matter, besides the arrest.
3 Cred. 'Faith and mine is much about that matter too; your Girdle and Hangers, and your Beaver, shall be sufficient bail for't.
1 Cred. If you have ever a plain black sute at home, this Silken one, with your Silke-stockings, Garters, and Roses shall pacifie me too; for I take no delight, if I have a sufficient pawn, to cast any Gentleman in prison; therefore 'tis but an untrussing matter: and you are free, we are no unreasonable creatures you see; for mine own part, I protest I am loth to put you to any trouble for security.