1.

  Be subject to it; you are wise and vertuous.

Bes.

  Obedience ever makes that noble use on’t,
  To which I dedicate my beaten body;
  I must trouble you a little further, Gentlemen o’th’ Sword.

2.

  No trouble at all to us Sir, if we may
  Profit your understanding, we are bound
  By vertue of our calling to utter our opinions,
  Shortly, and discreetly.

Bes.

  My sorest business is, I have been kick’d.

2.

  How far Sir?

Bes.

  Not to flatter my self in it, all over, my sword forc’d but not
  lost; for discreetly I rendred it to save that imputation.

1.

  It shew’d discretion, the best part of valour.

2.

  Brother, this is a pretty cause, pray ponder on’t;
  Our friend here has been kick’d.

1.

  He has so, brother.

2.

  Sorely he saies:  Now, had he set down here
  Upon the meer kick, ’t had been Cowardly.

1.

  I think it had been Cowardly indeed.

2.

  But our friend has redeem’d it in delivering
  His sword without compulsion; and that man
  That took it of him, I pronounce a weak one,
  And his kicks nullities. 
  He should have kick’d him after the delivering
  Which is the confirmation of a Coward.

1.

  Brother, I take it, you mistake the question;
  For, say that I were kick’d.

2.

  I must not say so;
  Nor I must not hear it spoke by the tongue of man. 
  You kick’d, dear brother! you’re merry.

1.

  But put the case I were kick’d?

2.

  Let them put it that are things weary of their lives, and know
  not honour; put the case you were kick’d?

1.

  I do not say I was kickt.

2.

  Nor no silly creature that wears his head without a Case, his
  soul in a Skin-coat:  You kickt dear brother?

Bes.

  Nay Gentlemen, let us do what we shall do,
  Truly and honest[l]y; good Sirs to the question.

1.

  Why then I say, suppose your Boy kick’t, Captain?

2.

  The Boy may be suppos’d is liable.

1.

  A foolish forward zeal Sir, in my friend;
  But to the Boy, suppose the Boy were kickt.

Bes.

  I do suppose it.

1.

  Has your Boy a sword?

Bes.

  Surely no; I pray suppose a sword too.

1.

  I do suppose it; you grant your Boy was kick’t then.

2.

  By no means Captain, let it be supposed still; the word grant,
  makes not for us.