If any bark put forth, come to the mart, Ang. Master Antipholis? S. Ant. Ay, that's my name. Ang. I know it well, sir: Lo, here is the chain; I thought to have ta'en you at the Porcupine: The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long. 10 15 S. Ant.What is your will, that I shall do with this? Ang. What please yourself, sir; I have made it for you. S. Ant. Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not. Go home with it, and please your wife withal; S. Ant. I pray you, sir, receive the money now, For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more. Ang. You are a merry man, sir; fare you [Exit. S. Ant. What I should think of this, I cannot tell: well. But this I think, there's no man is so vain, [Exit. SCENE I. The Street. ACT IV. And since I have not much importun'd you; [you, Ang. Saving your merry humour, here's the note 30 How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat; The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion; Which do amount to three odd ducats more Than I stand debted to this gentleman: pray you see him presently discharg'd, 35 For he is bound to sea, and stays but for it. E. Ant. I am notfurnish'd with the present money; Besides, I have some business in the town: Good signior, take the stranger to my house, And with you take the chain, and bid my wife Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof; Perchance, I will be there as soon as you. [self? Ang. Then you will bring the chain to her your E. Ant. No; bear it with you, lest I come not time enough. Ang. Even just the sum, that I do owe to 40 comes. E. Ant. A man is well holp up, that trusts to you: A coin worth from eighteen-pence to two Ang. Well, sir, I will: Have you the chain about you? E. Ant. An if I have not, sir, I hope you have; Or else you may return without your money. Ang. Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the E. Ant. Goodlord, you use this dalliance, to ex- 60 chain E. Ant. I answer you! why should I answer Ang. You wrong me more, sir, in denying it: Consider, how it stands upon my credit. Mer. Well, officer, arrest him at my suit! And charge you in the duke's name to obey me. E. Ant. Consent to pay for that I never had! Ang. Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer;- Offi. I do arrest you, sir; you hear the suit. Enter Dromio of Syracuse from the Bay. S. Dro. Master there is a bark of Epidamnum, That stays but till her owner comes aboard, Then, sir, she bears away: our fraughtage, sir, I have convey'd aboard: and I have bought The oil, the balsamum, and aqua-vitæ. The ship is in her trim; the merry wind Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all, But for their owner, master, and yourself. E. Ant. How now? a madman! why, thou peevish' sheep, What ship of Epidamnum stays for me? 151 201 She is too big, I hope, for me to compass. The house of Antipholis of Ephesus. Enter Adriana and Luciana. Adr. Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so? Might'st thou perceive austerely in his eye That he did plead in earnest, yea or no? Look'd he or red, or pale; or sad, or merrily? What observation mad'st thou in this case, Of his heart's meteors titing in his face"? Luc. First he deny'd you had in him no right. Adr. He meant, he did me none; the more my spight. [here. Luc. Then swore he, that he was a stranger Adr. Andtrue he swore, though yet forsworn he Luc. Then pleaded I for you. Adr. And what said he? [were. [me. Luc. That love I begg'd for you, he begg'd of Adr. With what persuasiondidhetempt thy love? Luc. With words, that in an honest suit might move. 25 First, he did praise my beauty; then my speech. Adr. Did'st speak him fair? Luc. Have patience, I beseech. Adr. I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have its 30 He is deformed, crooked, old and sere', [will. Ill-fac'd, worse-body'd, shapeless every where; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. 35 40 S. Dro. A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage. E. Ant.Thoudrunkenslave, I sent thee for a rope; 45 And told thee to what purpose, and what end. S. Dro. You sent me for a rope's-end as soon: You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark. [sure, E. Ant. I will debate this matter at more leiAnd teach your ears to list me with more heed. To Adriana, villain, hie thee strait; Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk 2 Luc. Who would be jealous then of such a one? S. Dro. Here, go; the desk, the purse; sweet Luc. How, hast thou lost thy breath? 50A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff; [termands 55 One that, before the judgment, carries poor souls to help. Adr. Why, man, what is the matter? S. Dro. I do not know the matter; he is ʼrested on the case. 1 That is, silly. Alluding to those meteors in the sky, which have the appearance of lines of armies meeting in the shock. That is, dry, withered. 4 That is, marked or stigmatized by nature with deformity. "A quibble on everlasting, which is the name of a kind of durable stuff. is, a dungeon, for which hell was the cant term. I • That Adr, Adr. What, is he arrested? tell me, at whose suit. S. Dro. I know not at whose suit he is arrested well; But he's in a suit of buff, which 'rested him, that I can tell : Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk? Adr. Go fetch it, sister.-This I wonder at, [Exit Luciana. That he, unknown to me, should be in debt! Tell me, was he arrested on a band?? S. Dro. Not on a band, but on a stronger thing A chain, a chain; do you not hear it ring? Adr. What, the chain? S. Ant. I understand thee not. S. Dro. No? why, it is a plain case: he that went like a bass-viol, in a case of leather; the man, sir, that, when gentlemen are tired, gives 5 them a fob, and 'rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed men, and gives 'em suits of durance; he that sets up his rest to do more exploits with his mace, than a morris-pike2. S. Ant. What! thou mean'st an officer? |10||||S. Dro. Ay, sir, the serjeant of the band: he, that brings any man to answer it, that breaks his band; one that thinks a man always going to bed, and saith, God give you good rest! [gone. S. Dro. No, no; the bell: 'tis time that I were 15 It was two ere I left him, and now the clock| strikes one. [hear. Adr. The hours come back! that I did never S. Dro. O yes, if any hour meet a serjeant, a'turns back for very fear. Adr. As if time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason? S. Ant. Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Any ship puts forth to-night? may we be gone? S. Dro. Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since, that the bark Expedition put forth tonight; and then were you hindered by the ser20 jeant, to tarry for the boy, Delay: Here are the angels that you sent for, to deliver you. S. Dro. Time is a very bankrout, and owes more than he's worth, to season. [say, Nay, he's a thief too: Have you not heard men 25 That Time comes stealing on by night and day? If Time be in debt, and theft, and a serjeant in the way, Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day? Enter Luciana. Adr. Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it strait: 30 And bring thy master home immediately.-Come, sister: I am press'd down with conceit ; Conceit, my comfort,and my injury.[Exeunt. 35 SCENE III. The Street. Enter Antipholis of Syracuse. [me S. Ant. There's not a man I meet, but doth salute 40 And show'd me silks that he had bought for me, Enter Dromio of Syracuse. S. Dro. Master, here's the gold you sent m for: What, have you got the picture of old Adam new apparell'd? S. Ant. What gold is this? What Adam dost thou mean? 1451 50 S. Ant. The fellow is distract, and so am I; And here we wander in illusions : Some blessed power deliver us from hence! Cour. Well met, well met, master Antipholis. S.Dro. Nay, she is worse, she's the devil's dam: and here she comes in the habit of a light wench: and therefore comes, that the wenches say, God damn me, that's as much as to say, God make me a light wench. It is written, they appear to men like angels of light: light is an effect of fire, and ire will burn; ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her. [sir. Cour. Your man and you are marvellous merry, Will you go with me? we'll mend our dinner here. S. Dro. Master, if you do expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon. S. Ant. Why, Dromio? S. Dro. Marry, he must have a long spoon, that must cat with the devil. [of supping? S. Ant. Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress: [ner, I conjure thee to leave me, and be gone. S. Dro. Some devils Ask but the paring of one's nail, a rush, S. Dro. Not that Adam, that kept the paradise, but that Adam, that keeps the prison; he that goes in the calves-skin that was kill'd for the prodigal; he that came behind you, sir, like a 60 evil angel, and bid you forsake your liberty. 2 A bond, i. e. an obligatory writing to pay a sum of money, was anciently spelt band. A band is likewise a neckcloth. On this circumstance, we believe, the humour of the passage turns. A morris-pike was a pike used in a morris or military dance, and is mentioned by our old writers as a formidable weapon. 3 Or here means before. S. Ant. S. Ant. Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, S. Dro. Fly pride, says the peacock: Mistress, 5 com'd home with it, when I return: nay, I bear Enter Adriana, Luciana, and the Courtezan, with E. Dro. Mistress, respice finem, respect your 10 end; or rather the prophecy, like the parrot, Beware the rope's-end. E. Ant. Wilt thou stil! talk? [Beats Dro. Cour. How say you now? is not your husband Adr. His incivility confirms no less.- [mad? 15 Good doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand. Luc. Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks! Cour. Mark, how he trembles in his ecstasy! [Exit. 20 Pinch. Give me your hand, and let me feel your pulse. He rush'd into my house, and took perforce SCENE IV. The Street. Enter Antipholis of Ephesus, with a Jailor. [all. 25 [ear. E. Ant. There is my hand, and let it feel your Pinch. I charge thee, Satan, hous'd within this To yield possession to my holy prayers, [man, And to thy state of darkness hie thee strait; I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven. [mad. 35 I tell you, 'twill sound harshly in her ears.- E. Ant. And to that end, sir, I will welcome Offi. Good sir, be patient. E. Dro. Nay, 'tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity. Offi. Good now, hold thy tongue. E. Dro. Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands. E. Ant. Thou whoreson, senseless villain! E. Dro. I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel your blows. E. Ant. Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass. 45 50 55 E. Dro. I am an ass, indeed: you may prove it, by my long ears. I have serv'd him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service, but blows: when I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, 60 he cools me with beating; I am wak'd with it, when I sleep; rais'd with it, when I sit; driven out of doors with it, when I go from home; wel Adr. Oh, husband, God doth know, you din'd at home, Where 'would you had remain'd until this time, E. Ant. Din'd I at home? Thou villain, what say'st thou? [home. E. Dro. Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at E. Dro. Certes', she did; the kitchen vestal E. Ant. And did not I in rage depart from thence? Adr. Is 't good to sooth him in these contraries? E. Dro. God, and the rope-maker, bear me come near me. [thou, E. Ant. What, will you murder me? Thou jaior, Offi. Masters, let him go: Offi. He is my prisoner; if I let him go, [They bind Antipholis and Dromio. 25 130 35 40 E. Dro. Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, Good master; cry, the devil.— [talk! Luc. God help, poor souls, how idly do they Adr.Go bear him bence. Sister, go you with me. [Exeunt Pinch, Antipholis, Dromio, &c. Say now, whose suit is he arrested at? [him? Off. One Angelo, a goldsmith; do you know Adr. I know the man: What is the sum he Ofi. Two hundred ducats. [owes? Adr. Say, how grows it due? Offi. Due for a chain, your husband had of him. Adr. He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not. [day Cour. When as your husband all in rage toCame to my house, and took away my ring, (The ring I saw upon his finger now) Strait after, did I meet him with a chain. Adr. It inay be so, but I did never see it.— To have them bound again. [They run out. Manent Antipholis and Dromio. S. Ant. I see these witches are afraid of swords. from you. S. Ant. Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff I long, that we were safe and sound aboard. S. Ant. I will not stay to-night for all the town; [Excunt. SCENE I. A Street, before a Priory. ACT V. Enter the Merchant and Angelo. Ang. IAM sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you; Foolish. 55 Mer. Speak softly: yonder, as I think, he walks, That you would put me to this shame and trouble; Unhappy here signifies mischievous. Who, |