Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house, I will discharge my bond, and thank you too. Off. That labour may you save: see where he comes. Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus. Ant. E. While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou For locking me out of my doors by day.— Dro. E. I buy a thousand pound a year! I buy a rope! Ant. E. A man is well holp up I pray you, see him presently discharg'd, For he is bound to sea, and stays but for it. Ant. E. I am not furnish'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 Perchance I will be there as soon as you. Ang. Then you will bring the chain to her yourself? Bear't with you, lest I come not time enough. [Exit. Ang. Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you? Or else you may return without your money. Ang. Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain: Both wind and tide stay for this gentleman, And I, to blame, have held him here too long. Ant. E. Good Lord, you use this dalliance to excuse I should have chid you for not bringing it, Sec. Mer. The hour steals on; I pray you, sir, dispatch. Ang. You hear how he impórtunes me;-the chain !— Ant. E. Why, give it to my wife, and fetch your money. Ang. Come, come, you know I gave it you even now. Either send the chain, or send me by some token. (64) Ant. E. Fie, now you run this humour out of breath. Sec. Mer. My business cannot brook this dalliance. Ant. E. I answer you! what should I answer you? Ang. You know I gave't you half an hour since. Ant. E. You gave me none: you wrong me much to say so. Ang. You wrong me more, sir, in denying it : Consider how it stands upon my credit. Sec. Mer. Well, officer, arrest him at my suit. And charge you in the duke's name to obey me. Either consent to pay this sum for me, Or I attach you by this officer. Ant. E. Consent to pay thee that I never had! Ang. Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer.- Off. I do arrest you, sir: you hear the suit. Ang. Sir, sir, I shall have law in Ephesus, Enter DROMIO of Syracuse. Dro. S. Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum And then she bears away." (65) Our fraughtage, sir, The ship is in her trim; the merry wind Blows fair from land: they stay for naught at all Ant. E. How now! a madman! Why, thou peevish sheep, What ship of Epidamnum stays for me? Dro. S. A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage. Ant. E. Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope, And told thee to what purpose and what end. Dro. S. You sent me, sir, for a rope's-end as soon:(66) You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark. Ant. E. I will debate this matter at more leisure, And that shall bail me: hie thec, slave, be gone. On, officer, to prison till it come. [Exeunt Sec. Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and Ant. E. Dro. S. To Adriana! that is where we din'd, Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband: For servants must their masters' minds fulfil. [Exit. SCENE II. A room in the house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus. Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA. Adr. Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so? Mightst 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 merry ?(67) Luc. First he denied you had in him no right. Adr. And what said he? Adr. Didst 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 his will. Ill-fac'd, worse-bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. Luc. Who would be jealous, then, of such a one? No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone. Adr. Ah, but I think him better than I say, And yet would herein others' eyes were worse. Far from her nest the lapwing cries away: My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse. Enter DROMIO of Syracuse. Dro. S. Here, go; the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste. (69) Luc. How hast thou lost thy breath? Dro. S. A devil in an everlasting(70) garment hath him ; One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel; A fiend, a fury, (71) pitiless and rough; A wolf, nay, worse,-a fellow all in buff; A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well; Dro. S. I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case. Adr. What, is he arrested? tell me at whose suit. Dro. S. I know not at whose suit he is arrested well; But 'is in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell. Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk? Adr. Go fetch it, sister.-This I wonder at, [Exit Luciana. That(72) he, unknown to me, should be in debt.- Dro. S. Not on a band, but on a stronger thing,- Adr. What, the chain? Dro. S. No, no, the bell:-'tis time that I were gone : It was two ere I left him, and now the clock strikes one. Adr. The hours come back! that did I never hear. Dro. S. O, yes; if any hour meet a sergeant, 'a turns back for very fear. Adr. As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason! Dro. S. Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day? If Time be(73) in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way, Hath he not reason to turn back an(74) hour in a day? Re-enter LUCIANA with the purse. Adr. Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it straight; [Exeunt. |