Dap. And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh,
Would it might never write good courthand more,
If discover. What do you think of me,
That I am a chiaus?
Face. What’s that?
Dap. The Turk was, here―
As one would say, do you think I am a Turk?
Face. I’ll tell the doctor so.
Dap. Do, good sweet captain.

The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants

The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of ₤4,000, before the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is thus alluded to:[…]

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