2d Watch. But, master constable, what, if he should resist us?
Con. Why, if he do resist, you may knock him down, and then bid him stand, and come before the constable. So now I think you are sufficiently instructed concerning your office. Take your stands: you shall hear rogues walking at these seasonable hours, I warrant you: stand close.
Enter Eugenio.
Eug. Now do I take as much care to be apprehended as others do to 'scape the watch: I must speak to be overheard, and plainly too, or else these dolts will never conceive me.
Con. Hark, who goes by?
Eug. O my conscience, my conscience! the terror of a guilty conscience!
Con. How, conscience talks he of! he's an honest man, I warrant him: let him pass.
2d Watch. Ay, ay, let him pass. Good night, honest gentleman.
Eug. These are wise officers, I must be plainer yet. That gold, that cursed gold, that made me poison him—made me poison Eugenio.
Con. How, made me poison him! he's a knave, I warrant him.