SCENE II.--_The Old Jewry_. WELL-BRED _has agreed with_ KNOWELL _to

persuade_ BRIDGET _to meet him at the Tower so that they may be married_. BRAIN-WORM _has been despatched to carry out other details of the plot. Meeting_ OLD KNOWELL _with_ FORMAL _he reports that (as_ FITZSWORD) _his connection with_ OLD KNOWELL _has been discovered; that he has escaped with difficulty from_ YOUNG KNOWELL, _and that the father had better hasten to_ Cob's _house to catch his son in_ flagrante delicto. _He then goes off with_ FORMAL. _Enter_ BOBADILL, YOUNG KNOWELL, MATTHEW, _and_ STEPHEN.

BOBADILL: I will tell you, sir, by way of private; were I known to her majesty, I would undertake to save three parts of her yearly charge in holding war. Thus, sir, I would select nineteen more gentlemen of good spirit; and I would teach the special rules, your punto, your reverso, your staccato, till they could all play very near as well as myself. We twenty would come into the field, and we would challenge twenty of the enemy; kill them, challenge twenty more; kill them, and thus kill every man his twenty a day, that's twenty score; twenty score, that's two hundred; five days a thousand, two hundred days kills forty thousand.

[_Enter_ DOWN-RIGHT, _who challenges_ BOBADILL _to draw on the spot, and cudgels him while_ MATTHEW _runs away, to_ KNOWELL'S _enjoyment. Exeunt all_. WELL-BRED _makes the proposed arrangement with_ BRIDGET. BRAIN-WORM, _who has stolen_ FORMAL'S _clothes, tricks_ KITELY _and_ DAME KITELY _severally into hurrying off to_ COB'S _house to catch each other in misdoing. Then, meeting_ BOBADILL _and_ MATTHEW _he engages to procure them a warrant against_ DOWN-RIGHT, _and a sergeant to serve it_. OLD KNOWELL, KITELY, _and_ DAME KITELY _attended by_ CASH, _meet outside_ COB'S _house, each with their own suspicions; there is a general altercation, while_ TIB _refuses to admit any of them_.