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hand thou shalt have her; I'll go fetch her presently. 'Point but where to meet, and as I am an honest man I'll bring her. E. Know. Hold, hold, be temperate. Wel. Why, by--what shall I swear by? thou shalt have her, as I am-- E. Know. Praythee, be at peace, I am satisfied; and do believe thou wilt omit no offered occasion to make my desires complete. Wel. Thou shalt see, and know, I will not. [Exeunt. SCENE IV.-The Old Jewry. Enter FORMAL and KNOWELL. Form. Was your man a soldier, sir? Know. Ay, a knave I took him begging O' the way, this morning, As I came over Moorfields. Enter BRAINWORM. disguised as before. O, here he is!---you've made fair speed, believe me, Where, in the name of sloth, could you be thus? Brai. Marry, peace be my comfort, where I thought I should have had little comfort of your worship's service. Know. How so? Brai. O, sir, your coming to the city, your entertainment of me, and your sending me to watch---indeed all the circumstances either of your charge, or my employment, are as open to your son, as to yourself. Know. How should that be, unless that villain, Brainworm, Have told him of the letter, and discover'd All that I strictly charg'd him to conceal? 'Tis so. Brai. I am partly O' the faith, 'tis so, indeed. Know. But, how should he know thee to be my man? Brai. Nay, sir, I cannot tell; unless it be by the black art. Is not your son a scholar, sir? Know. Yes, but I hope his soul is not allied Unto such hellish practice: if it were, I had just cause to weep my part in him, And curse the time of his creation. But, where didst thou find them, Fitz-Sword? Brai. You should rather ask where they found me, sir; for I'll be sworn, I was going along in the street, thinking nothing, when, of a sudden, a voice calls, Mr. Knowell's man! another cries, Soldier! and thus half a dozen of them, till they had call'd me within a house, where I no sooner came, but they seem'd men, and out flew all their rapiers at my bosom, with some three or four score oaths to accompany them; and all to tell me, I was but a dead man, if I did not confess where you were, and how I was employed, and about what;
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