[He staggers on, and then falls down.
Thus falls a monarch, if fate push at him.
Enter a Captain and the Watch.
Cap. Come on, my hearts; we are the city’s security. I’ll give you your charge, and then, like courtiers, every man spy out. Let no man in my company be afraid to speak to a cloak lined with velvet, nor tremble at the sound of a gingling spur. 90
Watch. May I never be counted a cock of the game if I fear spurs, but be gelded like a capon for the preserving of my voice.
Cap. I’ll have none of my band refrain to search a venereal house, though his wife’s sister be a lodger there; nor take two shillings of the bawd to save the gentlemen’s credits that are aloft, and so, like voluntary panders, leave them, to the shame of all halberdiers.
2. Nay, the wenches, we’ll tickle them, that’s flat. 99
Cap. If you meet a shevoiliero, that’s in the gross phrase a knight that swaggers in the street, and, being taken, has no money in his purse to pay for his fees, it shall be a part of your duty to entreat me to let him go.
1. O marvellous! is there such shevoiliers?
2. Some two hundred, that’s the least, that are reveal’d.