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Enter BEADLES, dragging in MISTRESS QUICKLY and DOLL TEARSHEET
BEADLES enter, dragging DOLL TEARSHEET and MISTRESS QUICKLY.
 MISTRESS QUICKLY
  No, thou arrant knave. I would to God that I might die, that
  I might have thee hanged. Thou hast drawn my shoulder out
  of joint.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
No, you horrible rogue! I wish to God I were dead, so I could have you hanged. You dislocated my shoulder!
 FIRST BEADLE
  The Constables have delivered her over to me, and she shall
5 have whipping cheer enough, I warrant her. There hath been
  a man or two lately killed about her.
FIRST BEADLE
The street cops handed her over to me, and she'll be whipped through and through, I promise. She's been involved in a couple of murders.
 DOLL TEARSHEET
  Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie! Come on, I 'll tell thee what,
  thou damned tripe-visaged rascal: an the child I now go with
  do miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother,
10 thou paper-faced villain.
DOLL TEARSHEET
Pig, Pig! You lie! Come on! I'll tell you what, you damned flabby-faced moron: if I have a miscarriage now, you'll wish you'd hit your own mother, you pasty-faced villain!
 MISTRESS QUICKLY
  O the Lord, that Sir John were come! I would make this a
  bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the fruit of her
  womb might miscarry.
MISTRESS QUICKLY
Oh God, I wish Sir John would come! He'd make somebody bleed for this. I pray to God that she has a miscarriage!
 FIRST BEADLE
  If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again; you have
15 but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go with me, for the
  man is dead that you and Pistol beat amongst you.
FIRST BEADLE
Well, if she does, you'll have twelve cushions on your couch again. You have only eleven now, since she's wearing one of them under her dress. I order both of you to come with me: the man that you two and Pistol beat up is dead.
 DOLL TEARSHEET
  I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you
  as soundly swinged for this, you bluebottle rogue, you filthy
  famished correctioner. If you be not swinged, I'll forswear
20 half-kirtles.
DOLL TEARSHEET
I'll tell you what, you stick-figure; I'll have you beaten soundly for this. You blue-coated rogue, you filthy, starving correctioner! If you aren't walloped for this, I'll swear off skirts.
 FIRST BEADLE
  Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.
FIRST BEADLE
Come on, come on, you little night sinner, come on.

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