To. Offer not to speak, crocodile; I will not hear a sound come from thee. Thou hast learnt to whine at the play yonder. Master Deputy, pray you commit ’hem both to safe custody, till I be able farther to charge ’hem.
Qu. O me! what an infortunate thing am I!
Pe. Will you not take security, sir?
To. Yes, marry, will I, Sir Flash, if I can find him, and charge him as deep as the best on you. He has been the plotter of all this; he is your enginer,[98] I hear. Master Deputy, you’ll dispose of these. In the meantime, I’ll to my lord mayor, and get his warrant to seize that serpent Security into my hands, and seal up both house and goods to the king’s use or my satisfaction. 335
Go. Officers, take ’hem to the Counter.
Qu. and Pe. O God!
To. Nay, on, on! you see the issue of your sloth. Of sloth cometh pleasure, of pleasure cometh riot, of riot comes whoring, of whoring comes spending, of spending comes want, of want comes theft, of theft comes hanging; and there is my Quicksilver fixed.
[Exeunt.
[79] “’Slid now, I’m quite altered! ... sit up late till it be early; drink drunk till I am sober.”—Middleton, iii. 254.
[80] “Monmouth caps” were caps worn by sailors. (See “The Ballad of the Caps” in Fairholt’s Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume, p. 115.)