Act 5 — Scene IV.[1349]
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Scene IV.[1349]
To them [enter] Formal [in a suit of armour.]
What! drunk? In arms against me? Your reason, your reason for this?[1350]
Form. I beseech your worship to pardon me; I happen’d into ill company by chance, that cast me into a sleep, and stript me of all my 5 clothes.
Clem. Well, tell him I am Justice Clement, and do pardon him: but what is this to your armour? What may that signify?
Form. An’t please you, sir, it hung up i’ 10 the room where I was stript; and I borrow’d it of one of the drawers[1351] to come home in, because I was loth to do penance through the street i’ my shirt.
Clem. Well, stand by a while. 15