Act I

Rome. A street.

Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a labouring day without the sign Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?

Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on? You, sir, what trade are you?

But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day? Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?

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