Elbow's lines in Measure for Measure

Elbow. Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law: bring them away.

Elbow. If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honour two notorious benefactors.

Elbow. If it? please your honour, I know not well what they are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure of; and void of all profanation in the world that good Christians ought to have.

Elbow. He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too.

Elbow. My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,--

Elbow. Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--

Elbow. I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house, it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.

Elbow. Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman cardinally given, might have been accused in fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.

Elbow. Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she spit in his face, so she defied him.

Elbow. Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable man; prove it.

Elbow. I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.

Elbow. First, an it like you, the house is a respected house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his mistress is a respected woman.

Elbow. Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! the time has yet to come that she was ever respected with man, woman, or child.

Elbow. O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married to her! If ever I was respected with her, or she with me, let not your worship think me the poor duke's officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or I'll have mine action of battery on thee.

Elbow. Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?

Elbow. Marry, I thank your worship for it. Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art to continue now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.

Elbow. Seven year and a half, sir.

Elbow. And a half, sir.

Elbow. Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them; I do it for some piece of money, and go through with all.

Elbow. To your worship's house, sir?

Elbow. Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.

Elbow. Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.

Elbow. Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent to the deputy.

Elbow. He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were as good go a mile on his errand.

Elbow. His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir.

Elbow. For being a bawd, for being a bawd.

Elbow. Come your ways, sir; come.

Elbow. Come your ways, sir; come.