<p>Act 1</p> <p>"scene" 1</p> <p>Scene 1</p> <p>[Rome. A street.]</p> <p>[Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners]</p> <p>FLAVIUS</p> <p>Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:<br />Is this a holiday? what! know you not,<br />Being mechanical, you ought not walk<br />Upon a labouring day without the sign<br />Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?</p> <p>First Commoner</p> <p>Why, sir, a carpenter.</p> <p>MARULLUS</p> <p>Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?<br />What dost thou with thy best apparel on?<br />You, sir, what trade are you?</p> <p>Second Commoner</p> <p>Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,<br />as you would say, a cobbler.</p> <p>MARULLUS</p> <p>But what trade art thou? answer me directly.</p> <p>Second Commoner</p> <p>A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe<br />conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.</p> <p>MARULLUS</p> <p>What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?</p> <p>Second Commoner</p> <p>Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,<br />if you be out, sir, I can mend you.</p> <p>MARULLUS</p> <p>What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!</p> <p>Second Commoner</p> <p>Why, sir, cobble you.</p> <p>FLAVIUS</p> <p>Thou art a cobbler, art thou?</p> <p>Second Commoner</p> <p>Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I<br />meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's<br />matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon