[024] Sec. Watch. How if a’ will not stand?
025 Dog. Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Verg. If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none of the prince’s subjects.
030 Dog. True, and they are to meddle with none but the prince’s subjects. You shall also make no noise in the [032] streets; for for the watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.
[034] Watch. We will rather sleep than talk: we know what 035 belongs to a watch.
Dog. Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should offend: only, have a care that your bills be not stolen. Well, you [039] are to call at all the ale-houses, and bid those that are 040 drunk get them to bed.
Watch. How if they will not?
Dog. Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for.
045 Watch. Well, sir.
Dog. If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue of your office, to be no true man; and, for such kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them, why, the more is for your honesty.