Pom. Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to’t, 220 then. If your worship will take order for the drabs and [the knaves], you need not to fear the bawds.
Escal. There [are] pretty orders beginning, I can tell you: it is but heading and hanging.
Pom. If you head and hang all that offend that way II. 1.
225 but for ten [year] together, you’ll be glad to give out a commission for more heads: if this law hold in Vienna ten [year], I’ll rent the fairest house in it after three-pence a [bay]: if you live to see this come to pass, say Pompey told you so.
Escal. Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of 230 your prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever; no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey, I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd Cæsar to you; in plain dealing, [Pompey], I shall have you whipt: so, for 235 this time, Pompey, fare you well.
Pom. I thank your worship for your good counsel: [[Aside]] but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall better determine.
Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade:
240 The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade. [Exit.]
Escal. Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?
Elb. Seven year and a half, sir.
245 Escal. I thought, by [your] readiness in the office, you had continued in it some time. You say, seven years together?