Sexton. Master constable, you go not the way to examine: you must call forth the watch that are their accusers.
Dogberry. Yea, marry, that’s the eftest way.—Let the watch come forth.—Masters, I charge you, in the prince’s name, accuse these men.
1st Watch. This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince’s brother, was a villain.
Dogberry. Write down—Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat perjury, to call a prince’s brother villain.
Borachio. Master constable—
Dogberry. Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look, I promise thee.
Sexton. What heard you him say else?
2d Watch. Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of Don John, for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.
Dogberry. Flat burglary as ever was committed!
Verges. Yea, by the mass, that it is.