Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
Title: Search
Esc. This comes off well: here's a wise Officer.
Ang. Ang.
Ang. Goe to: What quality are they of? Elbow is
Ang. your name?
Ang. Why do'st thou not speake Elbow?
Clo. Clo.
Clo. He cannot Sir: he's out at Elbow.
Ang. What are you Sir?
Elb. Elb.
Elb. He Sir: a Tapster Sir: parcell Baud: one that
Elb. serues a bad woman: whose house Sir was (as they say)
Elb. pluckt downe in the Suborbs: and now shee professes a hotߛhouse; which, I thinke is a very ill house too.
Esc. Esc.
Esc. How know you that?
Elb. My wife Sir? whom I detest before heauen, and
Elb. your honour.
Esc. How? thy wife?