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[One] whose hard heart is button’d up with steel;

A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;

A wolf, nay worse, a fellow all in buff;

A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands

The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands;

A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well;

One that before the judgment carries poor souls to hell.

Adr.

Why, man, what is the matter?

S. Dro.

I do not know the matter, he is ’rested on the case.

Adr.

What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.

S. Dro.

I know not at whose suit he is arrested well;

But [’a’s] in a suit of buff which ’rested him, that can I tell.

Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk?

Adr.

Go fetch it, sister.

(Exit Luciana.)

This I wonder at,

[That] he unknown to me should be in debt.

Tell me, was he arrested on a band?

S. Dro.

Not on a band but on a stronger thing:

A chain, a chain! Do you not [hear] it ring?

Adr.

What, the chain?

S. Dro.

No, no, the bell, ’tis time that I were gone: