The Queen’s Men apparently found their contemporary volunteer police force, the town watch, to be an excellent source of fun. Comic watchmen are featured in (Sc27) and appear again here. The recurring joke, featured in many early modern plays, is that the constables entrusted to watch the cities at night, the Watch, are incompetent or negligent. The watchmen in decide they will go to the pub rather than watch, and the watchmen in this scene are full of fear and prefer to sleep rather than protect the citizens of London. The characters in this scene are indisputably clowns and the scene continues the knockabout humor of the play’s opening. It also introduces us to the character of Derrick, the poor carrier mentioned in the first scene, a role we can be relatively confident was played by the Queen’s Men’s star actor, the great clown Richard Tarlton (Cockett, ). Although this scene is clearly intended to be comic, there are few verbal gags, and led by Alon Nashman (Derrick) our principal clown, the actors developed physical business to bring out the comedy of the situation. Since the Queen’s Men were renowned for their comedy we might infer that the Queen’s Men’s humor was equally reliant on physical comedy. The humor of the scene was not readily apparent on the page and it took a significant amount of work from the company to unearth the latent humor of the clown parts. Nashman paid close attention to the details of the text but was given creative licence to apply his clown training and develop physical comedy even where it was not specifically indicated. The production notes in this scene document our struggles deciphering a clowning text that lacks specific stage directions, pointing out the textual evidence for specific gags, and indicating where the actors’ creativity alone was responsible for the humor.