├── .gitignore
├── src
    ├── main
    │   └── java
    │   │   └── io
    │   │       └── github
    │   │           └── ble
    │   │               └── shax
    │   │                   ├── util
    │   │                       ├── Function2.java
    │   │                       ├── IteratorDual.java
    │   │                       ├── prob
    │   │                       │   ├── DiscreteDistribution.java
    │   │                       │   ├── FixedMarkovChain.java
    │   │                       │   ├── FixedMarkovBuilder.java
    │   │                       │   ├── MarkovChain.java
    │   │                       │   ├── WordChain.java
    │   │                       │   ├── MarkovBuilder.java
    │   │                       │   └── ArrayDiscreteDistribution.java
    │   │                       ├── NodeListIterable.java
    │   │                       ├── Splitters.java
    │   │                       ├── DFSElementIterable.java
    │   │                       └── XPathFunc.java
    │   │                   ├── ShaXPath.java
    │   │                   └── App.java
    └── test
    │   └── java
    │       └── io
    │           └── github
    │               └── ble
    │                   └── AppTest.java
├── pom.xml
└── data
    └── com_err.xml


/.gitignore:
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1 | .*.swp
2 | target
3 | .DS_Store
4 | .classpath
5 | .project
6 | .settings
7 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/Function2.java:
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1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util;
2 | 
3 | //why am I not using java 8?
4 | public interface Function2<A, B, C> {
5 | 	C apply(A a, B b);
6 | }
7 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/IteratorDual.java:
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1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util;
2 | 
3 | public interface IteratorDual<T> {
4 | 	void next(T t);
5 | 	void done(); //aka `hasntNext()`
6 | }
7 | 


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/src/test/java/io/github/ble/AppTest.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble;
 2 | 
 3 | import junit.framework.Test;
 4 | import junit.framework.TestCase;
 5 | import junit.framework.TestSuite;
 6 | 
 7 | /**
 8 |  * Unit test for simple App.
 9 |  */
10 | public class AppTest 
11 |     extends TestCase
12 | {
13 |     /**
14 |      * Create the test case
15 |      *
16 |      * @param testName name of the test case
17 |      */
18 |     public AppTest( String testName )
19 |     {
20 |         super( testName );
21 |     }
22 | 
23 |     /**
24 |      * @return the suite of tests being tested
25 |      */
26 |     public static Test suite()
27 |     {
28 |         return new TestSuite( AppTest.class );
29 |     }
30 | 
31 |     /**
32 |      * Rigourous Test :-)
33 |      */
34 |     public void testApp()
35 |     {
36 |         assertTrue( true );
37 |     }
38 | }
39 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/prob/DiscreteDistribution.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util.prob;
 2 | 
 3 | import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.ImmutablePair;
 4 | import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.Pair;
 5 | 
 6 | import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 7 | 
 8 | public interface DiscreteDistribution<T> extends Iterable<ImmutablePair<Double, T>> {
 9 | 	ImmutablePair<double[], ImmutableList<T>> atOnce();
10 | 
11 | 	default T sample(double p) {
12 | 		if(p > 1.0)
13 | 			throw new IllegalArgumentException();
14 | 
15 | 		T last = null;
16 | 		boolean seenAny = false;
17 | 
18 | 		for(Pair<Double, T> pv: this) {
19 | 			seenAny = true;
20 | 			last = pv.getRight();
21 | 
22 | 			p -= pv.getLeft();
23 | 			if(p <= 0)
24 | 				return pv.getRight();
25 | 		}
26 | 
27 | 		if(!seenAny)
28 | 			throw new IllegalStateException();
29 | 
30 | 		return last;
31 | 	}
32 | }


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/NodeListIterable.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util;
 2 | 
 3 | import java.util.Iterator;
 4 | 
 5 | import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
 6 | import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 7 | 
 8 | public class NodeListIterable implements Iterable<Node> {
 9 | 
10 | 	public static Iterable<Node> wrap(NodeList nl) {
11 | 		return new NodeListIterable(nl);
12 | 	}
13 | 
14 | 	public NodeListIterable(NodeList toWrap) {
15 | 		this.backing = toWrap;
16 | 	}
17 | 
18 | 	private final NodeList backing;
19 | 
20 | 	public Iterator<Node> iterator() {
21 | 		return new Iterator<Node>() {
22 | 			private int ix = 0;
23 | 
24 | 			public boolean hasNext() {
25 | 				return ix < backing.getLength();
26 | 			}
27 | 
28 | 			public Node next() {
29 | 				return backing.item(ix++);
30 | 			}
31 | 
32 | 			public void remove() {
33 | 				throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
34 | 			}
35 | 
36 | 		};
37 | 	}
38 | 
39 | }
40 | 
41 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/Splitters.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util;
 2 | 
 3 | import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 4 | 
 5 | import com.google.common.base.Function;
 6 | import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
 7 | 
 8 | public class Splitters {
 9 | 	private Splitters() {}
10 | 
11 | 	private static final Pattern sentenceEnd = Pattern.compile("(?<=[.!?]+)"),
12 | 			                     wordEnd = Pattern.compile("(?<=[,;:-])| ");
13 | 	private static final Splitter sentenceSplit = Splitter.on(sentenceEnd).trimResults().omitEmptyStrings(),
14 | 			                      wordSplit = Splitter.on(wordEnd).trimResults().omitEmptyStrings();
15 | 
16 | 	public static final Function<String, Iterable<String>> sentences = new Function<String, Iterable<String>>() {
17 | 		public Iterable<String> apply(String s) {
18 | 			return sentenceSplit.split(s);
19 | 		}
20 | 	};
21 | 
22 | 	public static final Function<String, Iterable<String>> words = new Function<String, Iterable<String>>() {
23 | 		public Iterable<String> apply(String s) {
24 | 			return wordSplit.split(s);
25 | 		}
26 | 	};
27 | }
28 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/prob/FixedMarkovChain.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util.prob;
 2 | 
 3 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.Function2;
 4 | 
 5 | import com.google.common.base.Function;
 6 | import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 7 | 
 8 | //probably should not be distinct from MarkovChain since we're already parameterizing over S and T
 9 | public class FixedMarkovChain<S, T> extends MarkovChain<S, T>{
10 | 
11 | 	public FixedMarkovChain(
12 | 			DiscreteDistribution<S> initialDistribution,
13 | 			Function2<S, T, S> transition,
14 | 			ImmutableMap<S, DiscreteDistribution<T>> conditionals,
15 | 			Function<S, Boolean> isTerminal) {
16 | 		super(initialDistribution);
17 | 		this.transition = transition;
18 | 		this.conditionals = conditionals;
19 | 		this.isTerminal = isTerminal;
20 | 	}
21 | 	protected final Function2<S, T, S> transition;
22 | 	protected final ImmutableMap<S, DiscreteDistribution<T>> conditionals;
23 | 	protected final Function<S, Boolean> isTerminal;
24 | 
25 | 	protected S transitionRule(S s, T t) { return transition.apply(s, t); }
26 | 	protected DiscreteDistribution<T> conditionalDistribution(S s) { return conditionals.get(s); }
27 | 	protected boolean isTerminalState(S s) { return isTerminal.apply(s); }
28 | 
29 | }
30 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/prob/FixedMarkovBuilder.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util.prob;
 2 | 
 3 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.Function2;
 4 | 
 5 | import com.google.common.base.Function;
 6 | 
 7 | public class FixedMarkovBuilder<S,T> extends MarkovBuilder<S, T>{
 8 | 	public FixedMarkovBuilder(Function2<S, T, S> transition,
 9 | 			Function<S, Boolean> isTerminal) {
10 | 		super();
11 | 		this.transition = transition;
12 | 		this.isTerminal = isTerminal;
13 | 	}
14 | 
15 | 	protected final Function2<S, T, S> transition;
16 | 	protected final Function<S, Boolean> isTerminal;
17 | 	//java 8 would just let me delegate to the function field, right?
18 | 	protected S transitionRule(S s, T t) { return transition.apply(s, t); }
19 | 	protected boolean isTerminalState(S s) { return isTerminal.apply(s); }
20 | 
21 | 	public FixedMarkovChain<S, T> build() {
22 | 		if(!collectors.isEmpty())
23 | 			throw new IllegalStateException("we're a finite sequence markov collector and we're too lazy to determine if the pending collectors are dangling or not.");
24 | 
25 | 		return new FixedMarkovChain<S, T>(
26 | 			ArrayDiscreteDistribution.normalized(observedInitials),
27 | 			transition,
28 | 			ArrayDiscreteDistribution.normalizedTransitions(observedTransitions),
29 | 			isTerminal);
30 | 	}
31 | }
32 | 


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/pom.xml:
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 1 | <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 2 |   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 3 |   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 4 | 
 5 |   <groupId>io.github.ble</groupId>
 6 |   <artifactId>shax</artifactId>
 7 |   <version>0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 8 |   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 9 | 
10 |   <name>shax</name>
11 |   <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
12 | 
13 |   <properties>
14 |     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
15 |   </properties>
16 | 
17 |   <dependencies>
18 |     <dependency>
19 |       <groupId>junit</groupId>
20 |       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
21 |       <version>3.8.1</version>
22 |       <scope>test</scope>
23 |     </dependency>
24 |     <dependency>
25 |       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
26 |       <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
27 |       <version>18.0</version>
28 |     </dependency>
29 |     <dependency>
30 |     	<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
31 |     	<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
32 |     	<version>3.3.2</version>
33 |     </dependency>
34 |   </dependencies>
35 |   <build>
36 |     <plugins>
37 |       <plugin>
38 |         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
39 |         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
40 |         <configuration>
41 |           <source>1.7</source>
42 |           <target>1.7</target>
43 |         </configuration>
44 |         <version>3.2</version>
45 |       </plugin>
46 |   </plugins>
47 |   </build>
48 | </project>
49 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/ShaXPath.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax;
 2 | 
 3 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.XPathFunc;
 4 | 
 5 | import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 6 | 
 7 | import com.google.common.base.Function;
 8 | 
 9 | public class ShaXPath {
10 | 	public static final XPathFunc<Iterable<Node>>
11 | 		acts = XPathFunc.nodesExp("//ACT"),
12 | 		scenes = XPathFunc.nodesExp("./SCENE"),
13 | 		speeches = XPathFunc.nodesExp("./SPEECH"),
14 | 		lines = XPathFunc.nodesExp("./LINE");
15 | 
16 | 	public static final XPathFunc<Integer>
17 | 		actNumber = XPathFunc.intExp("count(./preceding-sibling::ACT) + 1"),
18 | 		sceneNumber = XPathFunc.intExp("count(./preceding-sibling::SCENE) + 1");
19 | 
20 | 	public static final XPathFunc<String>
21 | 		speaker = XPathFunc.stringExp("./child::SPEAKER[text()]"),
22 | 		lineText = XPathFunc.stringExp("self::node()[text()]");
23 | 
24 | 	public static final Function<Node, String>
25 | 		fullSpeechText = new Function<Node, String>() {
26 | 
27 | 		public String apply(Node speech) {
28 | 			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
29 | 			boolean first = true;
30 | 			for(Node line: lines.apply(speech)) {
31 | 				if(!first)
32 | 					sb.append(" ");
33 | 				first = false;
34 | 				sb.append(lineText.apply(line));
35 | 			}
36 | 			return sb.toString();
37 | 		}
38 | 	};
39 | 
40 | 	//Whoops, I'm using the Oracle-provided XPath implementation that doesn't
41 | 	//support the XPath 2.0 functions like string-join!
42 | 	public static final XPathFunc<String>
43 | 		fullSpeechText2PointOh = XPathFunc.stringExp("fn:string-join('a','b', ' ')");
44 | 
45 | 	private ShaXPath() {}
46 | }
47 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/prob/MarkovChain.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util.prob;
 2 | 
 3 | import java.util.Iterator;
 4 | import java.util.Random;
 5 | 
 6 | public abstract class MarkovChain<S, T> {
 7 | 
 8 | 	protected abstract S transitionRule(S previous, T transition);
 9 | 	protected abstract DiscreteDistribution<T> conditionalDistribution(S state);
10 | 	protected abstract boolean isTerminalState(S state);
11 | 	final DiscreteDistribution<S> initialDistribution;
12 | 
13 | 	public MarkovChain(DiscreteDistribution<S> initialDistribution) {
14 | 		super();
15 | 		this.initialDistribution = initialDistribution;
16 | 	}
17 | 
18 | 	public Iterable<T> fromState(S state, Random r) {
19 | 		return new Iterable<T>() {
20 | 			public Iterator<T> iterator() {
21 | 				return new MarkovChainIterator(state, r);
22 | 			}
23 | 		};
24 | 	}
25 | 
26 | 	public Iterable<T> fromInitialDistribution(Random r) {
27 | 		return new Iterable<T>() {
28 | 			public Iterator<T> iterator() {
29 | 				return new MarkovChainIterator(initialDistribution.sample(r.nextDouble()), r);
30 | 			}
31 | 		};
32 | 	}
33 | 
34 | 	private class MarkovChainIterator implements Iterator<T> {
35 | 		S state;
36 | 		final Random r;
37 | 
38 | 		MarkovChainIterator(S state, Random r) {
39 | 			this.state = state;
40 | 			this.r = r;
41 | 		}
42 | 
43 | 		@Override
44 | 		public boolean hasNext() {
45 | 			return !isTerminalState(state);
46 | 		}
47 | 
48 | 		@Override
49 | 		public T next() {
50 | 			T emitted = conditionalDistribution(state).sample(r.nextDouble());
51 | 			state = transitionRule(state, emitted);
52 | 			return emitted;
53 | 		}
54 | 
55 | 	}
56 | }
57 | 
58 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/prob/WordChain.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util.prob;
 2 | 
 3 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.Function2;
 4 | 
 5 | import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.ImmutablePair;
 6 | 
 7 | import com.google.common.base.Function;
 8 | 
 9 | public class WordChain {
10 | 	public static String terminalWord = "~~terminal~~";
11 | 	public static class LastWord extends FixedMarkovBuilder<String, String> {
12 | 
13 | 		public LastWord() {
14 | 			super(latter, endIfTerminal);
15 | 		}
16 | 
17 | 
18 | 	}
19 | 
20 | 	private static Function2<String, String, String> latter = new Function2<String, String, String>() {
21 | 		public String apply(String a, String b) {
22 | 			return b;
23 | 		}
24 | 	};
25 | 
26 | 	private static Function<String, Boolean> endIfTerminal = new Function<String, Boolean>() {
27 | 		public Boolean apply(String a) {
28 | 			return a.equals(terminalWord);
29 | 		}
30 | 	};
31 | 
32 | 	public static class LastTwoWords extends FixedMarkovBuilder<ImmutablePair<String, String>, String> {
33 | 		//quadruple-ugh
34 | 		//color me ready for scala, if not clojure
35 | 		private static Function2<ImmutablePair<String, String>, String, ImmutablePair<String, String>> rotateOn =
36 | 				new Function2<ImmutablePair<String, String>, String, ImmutablePair<String,String>>() {
37 | 					public ImmutablePair<String, String> apply(ImmutablePair<String, String> a, String b) {
38 | 						return ImmutablePair.of(a.right, b);
39 | 					}
40 | 		};
41 | 
42 | 		private static Function<ImmutablePair<String, String>, Boolean> rightIsTerminal =
43 | 				new Function<ImmutablePair<String, String>, Boolean>() {
44 | 
45 | 					public Boolean apply(ImmutablePair<String, String> a) {
46 | 						return endIfTerminal.apply(a.right);
47 | 					}
48 | 		};
49 | 
50 | 		public LastTwoWords() {
51 | 			super(rotateOn, rightIsTerminal);
52 | 		}
53 | 
54 | 	}
55 | }
56 | 


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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util.prob;
 2 | 
 3 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.IteratorDual;
 4 | 
 5 | import java.util.Collections;
 6 | import java.util.Set;
 7 | import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 8 | 
 9 | import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.ImmutablePair;
10 | 
11 | import com.google.common.collect.ConcurrentHashMultiset;
12 | import com.google.common.collect.Multiset;
13 | 
14 | //I feel stateful, oh so stateful
15 | public abstract class MarkovBuilder<State, Transition> {
16 | 	protected abstract State transitionRule(State previous, Transition transition);
17 | 	protected abstract boolean isTerminalState(State s);
18 | 
19 | 	public IteratorDual<Transition> collectorStartingAt(State s) {
20 | 		observedInitials.add(s);
21 | 		MarkovCollector c = new MarkovCollector(s);
22 | 		collectors.add(c);
23 | 		return c;
24 | 	}
25 | 
26 | 	//<img src="dog_selecting_data_structures.jpeg">
27 | 	protected final Multiset<ImmutablePair<State, Transition>> observedTransitions = ConcurrentHashMultiset.create();
28 | 	protected final Multiset<State> observedInitials = ConcurrentHashMultiset.create();
29 | 	protected final Set<MarkovCollector> collectors = Collections.newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap<>());
30 | 
31 | 	private class MarkovCollector implements IteratorDual<Transition> {
32 | 		private State current;
33 | 		MarkovCollector(State initial) {
34 | 			current = initial;
35 | 		}
36 | 
37 | 		public void next(Transition t) {
38 | 			if(isTerminalState(current))
39 | 				throw new IllegalStateException("can't transition, already in terminal state");
40 | 
41 | 			observedTransitions.add(ImmutablePair.of(current, t));
42 | 			current = transitionRule(current, t);
43 | 		}
44 | 
45 | 		public void done() {
46 | 			if(!isTerminalState(current))
47 | 				throw new IllegalStateException("not in terminal state; bat country, can't stop here");
48 | 
49 | 			//observedTransitions.add(ImmutablePair.of(current, null));
50 | 			current = null;
51 | 			collectors.remove(this);
52 | 		}
53 | 
54 | 	}
55 | }
56 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/DFSElementIterable.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util;
 2 | 
 3 | import java.util.Iterator;
 4 | import java.util.Stack;
 5 | 
 6 | import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 7 | import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
 8 | import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
 9 | import com.google.common.base.Function;
10 | 
11 | import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
12 | import org.w3c.dom.Node;
13 | import org.w3c.dom.Element;
14 | 
15 | public class DFSElementIterable implements Iterable<Element> {
16 | 	private final Element root;
17 | 	private final boolean skipRoot = false;
18 | 
19 | 	public DFSElementIterable(Element r) {
20 | 		this.root = r;
21 | 	}
22 | 
23 | 	public Iterator<Element> iterator() {
24 | 		final Stack<Iterator<Element>> stack = new Stack<>();
25 | 		if(skipRoot) {
26 | 			stack.push(elementChildrenOf(root).iterator());
27 | 		} else {
28 | 			stack.push(Lists.newArrayList(this.root).iterator());
29 | 		}
30 | 
31 | 		return new Iterator<Element>() {
32 | 
33 | 			private void advance() {
34 | 				while(!stack.empty() && !stack.peek().hasNext())
35 | 					stack.pop();
36 | 			}
37 | 
38 | 			public boolean hasNext() {
39 | 				advance();
40 | 				return !stack.empty() && stack.peek().hasNext();
41 | 			}
42 | 
43 | 			public Element next() {
44 | 				advance();
45 | 				Element e = stack.peek().next();
46 | 				stack.push(elementChildrenOf(e).iterator());
47 | 				return e;
48 | 			}
49 | 
50 | 			public void remove() {
51 | 				throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
52 | 			}
53 | 		};
54 | 	}
55 | 
56 | 	private static Iterable<Element> elementChildrenOf(Element e) {
57 | 
58 | 		final Predicate<Node> isElement = new Predicate<Node>() {
59 | 			public boolean apply(Node x) {
60 | 				return x.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE;
61 | 			}
62 | 		};
63 | 
64 | 		final Function<Node, Element> convertToElement = new Function<Node, Element>() {
65 | 			public Element apply(Node x) {
66 | 				return (Element) x;
67 | 			}
68 | 		};
69 | 
70 | 		return Iterables.transform(
71 | 				Iterables.filter(
72 | 					NodeListIterable.wrap(e.getChildNodes()),
73 | 					isElement),
74 | 				convertToElement);
75 | 	}
76 | }
77 | 


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/src/main/java/io/github/ble/shax/util/XPathFunc.java:
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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util;
 2 | 
 3 | import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
 4 | import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
 5 | import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression;
 6 | import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
 7 | import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
 8 | 
 9 | import org.w3c.dom.Node;
10 | import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
11 | 
12 | import com.google.common.base.Function;
13 | 
14 | public abstract class XPathFunc<T> implements Function<Node, T>{
15 | 	protected final XPathExpression exp;
16 | 
17 | 	public XPathFunc(XPathExpression exp) {
18 | 		super();
19 | 		this.exp = exp;
20 | 	}
21 | 	
22 | 	static final XPathFactory xpf = XPathFactory.newInstance();
23 | 	static final XPath xpi = xpf.newXPath();
24 | 	
25 | 	static XPathExpression forceCompile(String expText) {
26 | 		try {
27 | 			return xpi.compile(expText);
28 | 		} catch(Exception e) {
29 | 			throw new RuntimeException(e);
30 | 		}
31 | 	}
32 | 	
33 | 	public static XPathFunc<Integer> intExp(String exp) {
34 | 		return new XPathInt(forceCompile(exp));
35 | 	}
36 | 	
37 | 	public static XPathFunc<String> stringExp(String exp) {
38 | 		return new XPathString(forceCompile(exp));
39 | 	}
40 | 	
41 | 	public static XPathFunc<Iterable<Node>> nodesExp(String exp) {
42 | 		return new XPathNodes(forceCompile(exp));
43 | 	}
44 | }
45 | 
46 | final class XPathInt extends XPathFunc<Integer> {
47 | 	public Integer apply(Node n) {
48 | 		try {
49 | 			return ((Double) exp.evaluate(n, XPathConstants.NUMBER)).intValue();
50 | 		} catch(XPathExpressionException xpe) {
51 | 			throw new RuntimeException(xpe);
52 | 		}
53 | 	}
54 | 
55 | 	XPathInt(XPathExpression exp) {
56 | 		super(exp);
57 | 	}
58 | }
59 | 
60 | final class XPathString extends XPathFunc<String> {
61 | 	public String apply(Node n) {
62 | 		try {
63 | 			return (String) exp.evaluate(n, XPathConstants.STRING);
64 | 		} catch(XPathExpressionException xpe) {
65 | 			throw new RuntimeException(xpe);
66 | 		}
67 | 	}
68 | 	
69 | 	XPathString(XPathExpression exp) {
70 | 		super(exp);
71 | 	}
72 | }
73 | 
74 | final class XPathNodes extends XPathFunc<Iterable<Node>> {
75 | 	public Iterable<Node> apply(Node n) {
76 | 		try {
77 | 			return NodeListIterable.wrap((NodeList)exp.evaluate(n, XPathConstants.NODESET));
78 | 		} catch(XPathExpressionException xpe) {
79 | 			throw new RuntimeException(xpe);
80 | 		}
81 | 	}
82 | 	
83 | 	XPathNodes(XPathExpression exp) {
84 | 		super(exp);
85 | 	}
86 | }
87 | 


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 1 | package io.github.ble.shax.util.prob;
 2 | 
 3 | import java.util.Comparator;
 4 | import java.util.Iterator;
 5 | import java.util.Map;
 6 | import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
 7 | 
 8 | import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.ImmutablePair;
 9 | 
10 | import com.google.common.collect.HashMultiset;
11 | import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
12 | import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
13 | import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
14 | import com.google.common.collect.Multiset;
15 | import com.google.common.collect.Multiset.Entry;
16 | import com.google.common.collect.SortedMultiset;
17 | import com.google.common.collect.TreeMultiset;
18 | 
19 | public class ArrayDiscreteDistribution<T> implements DiscreteDistribution<T> {
20 | 
21 | 	//writing this function strengthened my resolve to pick up clojure again.
22 | 	public static<S, T>
23 | 		ImmutableMap<S, DiscreteDistribution<T>>
24 | 		normalizedTransitions(Multiset<ImmutablePair<S, T>> samples) {
25 | 		Map<S, Multiset<T>> accum = Maps.newHashMap();
26 | 		for(ImmutablePair<S, T> sample: samples) {
27 | 			if(!accum.containsKey(sample.left))
28 | 				accum.put(sample.left, HashMultiset.create());
29 | 			accum.get(sample.left).add(sample.right);
30 | 		}
31 | 
32 | 		ImmutableMap.Builder<S, DiscreteDistribution<T>> b = ImmutableMap.builder();
33 | 
34 | 		for(Map.Entry<S, Multiset<T>> e: accum.entrySet()) {
35 | 			b.put(e.getKey(), normalized(e.getValue()));
36 | 		}
37 | 
38 | 		return b.build();
39 | 	}
40 | 
41 | 	public static<T> DiscreteDistribution<T> normalized(Multiset<T> samples) {
42 | 		long sum = 0;
43 | 		Comparator<Multiset.Entry<T>> order = new Comparator<Multiset.Entry<T>>() {
44 | 			public int compare(Entry<T> o1, Entry<T> o2) { return Integer.compare(o1.getCount(), o2.getCount()); }
45 | 		};
46 | 		SortedMultiset<Multiset.Entry<T>> inOrder = TreeMultiset.create(order);
47 | 		inOrder.addAll(samples.entrySet());
48 | 
49 | 		ImmutableList.Builder<T> bxs = ImmutableList.builder();
50 | 		double[] ps = new double[inOrder.size()];
51 | 		{
52 | 			int ix = 0;
53 | 
54 | 			for(Multiset.Entry<T> entry: samples.entrySet()) {
55 | 				sum += entry.getCount();
56 | 				ps[ix++] = entry.getCount();
57 | 				bxs.add(entry.getElement());
58 | 			}
59 | 		}
60 | 
61 | 		for(int ix = 0; ix < ps.length; ix++)
62 | 			ps[ix] /= sum;
63 | 
64 | 		return new ArrayDiscreteDistribution<T>(ps, bxs.build());
65 | 	}
66 | 
67 | 	public ArrayDiscreteDistribution(double[] ps, ImmutableList<T> xs) {
68 | 		this.ps = ps;
69 | 		this.xs = xs;
70 | 	}
71 | 
72 | 	final double[] ps;
73 | 	final ImmutableList<T> xs;
74 | 
75 | 	@Override
76 | 	public Iterator<ImmutablePair<Double, T>> iterator() {
77 | 		return new Iterator<ImmutablePair<Double, T>>() {
78 | 
79 | 			private int ix = 0;
80 | 			public boolean hasNext() { return ix < ps.length; }
81 | 			public ImmutablePair<Double, T> next() {
82 | 				if(ix >= ps.length)
83 | 					throw new NoSuchElementException();
84 | 				//java specification, section 15.7, evaluation order says this is okay
85 | 				return ImmutablePair.of(ps[ix], xs.get(ix++));
86 | 
87 | 			}
88 | 		};
89 | 	}
90 | 
91 | 	@Override
92 | 	public ImmutablePair<double[], ImmutableList<T>> atOnce() {
93 | 		return ImmutablePair.of(ps.clone(), xs);
94 | 	}
95 | 
96 | }
97 | 


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  1 | package io.github.ble.shax;
  2 | 
  3 | import static io.github.ble.shax.ShaXPath.acts;
  4 | import static io.github.ble.shax.ShaXPath.fullSpeechText;
  5 | import static io.github.ble.shax.ShaXPath.scenes;
  6 | import static io.github.ble.shax.ShaXPath.speaker;
  7 | import static io.github.ble.shax.ShaXPath.speeches;
  8 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.IteratorDual;
  9 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.Splitters;
 10 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.prob.FixedMarkovBuilder;
 11 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.prob.MarkovChain;
 12 | import io.github.ble.shax.util.prob.WordChain;
 13 | 
 14 | import java.io.File;
 15 | import java.util.Date;
 16 | import java.util.Random;
 17 | 
 18 | //DOM-style XML parsing types
 19 | import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 20 | import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
 21 | import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
 22 | 
 23 | import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 24 | import org.w3c.dom.Element;
 25 | import org.w3c.dom.Node;
 26 | 
 27 | /**
 28 |  * Hello world!
 29 |  *
 30 |  */
 31 | public class App
 32 | {
 33 | 	public static void main( String[] args )
 34 | 		throws Exception
 35 | 	{
 36 | 		for(String arg: args) {
 37 | 			MarkovChain<String, String> learned = processLines(new File(arg));
 38 | 			Random r;
 39 | 			StringBuilder sb;
 40 | 			for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
 41 | 				r = new Random((new Date()).getTime() * i);
 42 | 				sb = new StringBuilder();
 43 | 				Iterable<String> chain = learned.fromState("look", r);
 44 | 				//Iterable<String> chain = learned.fromInitialDistribution(r);
 45 | 				for(String word: chain) {
 46 | 					sb.append(word).append(" ");
 47 | 				}
 48 | 				System.out.println(sb.toString());
 49 | 			}
 50 | 		}
 51 | 	}
 52 | 
 53 | 	static MarkovChain<String,String> processLines(File f) throws Exception {
 54 | 		DocumentBuilder builder = instantiateBuilder();
 55 | 		Document doc = builder.parse(f);
 56 | 		Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
 57 | 
 58 | 		int actCount = 1;
 59 | 
 60 | 		FixedMarkovBuilder<String, String> mbuilder = new WordChain.LastWord();
 61 | 
 62 | 		for(Node act: acts.apply(root)) {
 63 | 			int sceneCount = 1;
 64 | 			for(Node scene: scenes.apply(act)) {
 65 | 				for(Node speech: speeches.apply(scene)) {
 66 | 					String who = speaker.apply(speech);
 67 | 					String what = fullSpeechText.apply(speech);
 68 | 					for(String sentence: Splitters.sentences.apply(what)) {
 69 | 						//System.out.println(who + ":");
 70 | 
 71 | 						IteratorDual<String> feeder = null;
 72 | 						for(String word: Splitters.words.apply(sentence)) {
 73 | 							if(feeder == null)
 74 | 								feeder = mbuilder.collectorStartingAt(word);
 75 | 							else
 76 | 								feeder.next(word.toLowerCase());
 77 | 							//System.out.print("|"+word+"|");
 78 | 						}
 79 | 						feeder.next(WordChain.terminalWord);
 80 | 						feeder.done();
 81 | 						//System.out.println();
 82 | 						//System.out.println(String.format("%s: %s", who, sentence));
 83 | 					}
 84 | 				}
 85 | 				sceneCount++;
 86 | 			}
 87 | 			actCount++;
 88 | 		}
 89 | 		return mbuilder.build();
 90 | 	}
 91 | 
 92 | 	private static DocumentBuilder instantiateBuilder()
 93 | 		throws ParserConfigurationException {
 94 | 		DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
 95 | 		factory.setValidating(false);
 96 | 		factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
 97 | 		factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", false);
 98 | 		factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", false);
 99 | 		factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-dtd-grammar", false);
100 | 		factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
101 | 		return factory.newDocumentBuilder();
102 | 	}
103 | }
104 | 


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   1 | <?xml version="1.0"?>
   2 | <!DOCTYPE PLAY SYSTEM "play.dtd">
   3 | 
   4 | <PLAY>
   5 | <TITLE>The Comedy of Errors</TITLE>
   6 | 
   7 | <FM>
   8 | <P>Text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</P>
   9 | <P>SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994.</P>
  10 | <P>XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1998.</P>
  11 | <P>This work may be freely copied and distributed worldwide.</P>
  12 | </FM>
  13 | 
  14 | 
  15 | <PERSONAE>
  16 | <TITLE>Dramatis Personae</TITLE>
  17 | 
  18 | <PERSONA>SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus. </PERSONA>
  19 | <PERSONA>AEGEON, a merchant of Syracuse.</PERSONA>
  20 | 
  21 | <PGROUP>
  22 | <PERSONA>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</PERSONA>
  23 | <PERSONA>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</PERSONA>
  24 | <GRPDESCR>twin brothers, and sons to Aegeon and Aemilia.</GRPDESCR>
  25 | </PGROUP>
  26 | 
  27 | 
  28 | <PGROUP>
  29 | <PERSONA>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</PERSONA>
  30 | <PERSONA>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</PERSONA>
  31 | <GRPDESCR>twin brothers, and attendants on the two Antipholuses.</GRPDESCR>
  32 | </PGROUP>
  33 | 
  34 | <PERSONA>BALTHAZAR, a merchant</PERSONA>
  35 | <PERSONA>ANGELO, a goldsmith.</PERSONA>
  36 | <PERSONA>First Merchant, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.</PERSONA>
  37 | <PERSONA>Second Merchant, to whom Angelo is a debtor.</PERSONA>
  38 | <PERSONA>PINCH, a schoolmaster.</PERSONA>
  39 | <PERSONA>AEMILIA, wife to Aegeon, an abbess at Ephesus.</PERSONA>
  40 | <PERSONA>ADRIANA, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.</PERSONA>
  41 | <PERSONA>LUCIANA, her sister.</PERSONA>
  42 | <PERSONA>LUCE, servant to Adriana.</PERSONA>
  43 | <PERSONA>A Courtezan.</PERSONA>
  44 | <PERSONA>Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants</PERSONA>
  45 | </PERSONAE>
  46 | 
  47 | <SCNDESCR>SCENE  Ephesus.</SCNDESCR>
  48 | 
  49 | <PLAYSUBT>THE COMEDY OF ERRORS</PLAYSUBT>
  50 | 
  51 | <ACT><TITLE>ACT I</TITLE>
  52 | 
  53 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  A hall in DUKE SOLINUS'S palace.</TITLE>
  54 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other
  55 | Attendants</STAGEDIR>
  56 | 
  57 | <SPEECH>
  58 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
  59 | <LINE>Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall</LINE>
  60 | <LINE>And by the doom of death end woes and all.</LINE>
  61 | </SPEECH>
  62 | 
  63 | <SPEECH>
  64 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
  65 | <LINE>Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;</LINE>
  66 | <LINE>I am not partial to infringe our laws:</LINE>
  67 | <LINE>The enmity and discord which of late</LINE>
  68 | <LINE>Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke</LINE>
  69 | <LINE>To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,</LINE>
  70 | <LINE>Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives</LINE>
  71 | <LINE>Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,</LINE>
  72 | <LINE>Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.</LINE>
  73 | <LINE>For, since the mortal and intestine jars</LINE>
  74 | <LINE>'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,</LINE>
  75 | <LINE>It hath in solemn synods been decreed</LINE>
  76 | <LINE>Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,</LINE>
  77 | <LINE>To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more,</LINE>
  78 | <LINE>If any born at Ephesus be seen</LINE>
  79 | <LINE>At any Syracusian marts and fairs;</LINE>
  80 | <LINE>Again: if any Syracusian born</LINE>
  81 | <LINE>Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,</LINE>
  82 | <LINE>His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,</LINE>
  83 | <LINE>Unless a thousand marks be levied,</LINE>
  84 | <LINE>To quit the penalty and to ransom him.</LINE>
  85 | <LINE>Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,</LINE>
  86 | <LINE>Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;</LINE>
  87 | <LINE>Therefore by law thou art condemned to die.</LINE>
  88 | </SPEECH>
  89 | 
  90 | <SPEECH>
  91 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
  92 | <LINE>Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,</LINE>
  93 | <LINE>My woes end likewise with the evening sun.</LINE>
  94 | </SPEECH>
  95 | 
  96 | <SPEECH>
  97 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
  98 | <LINE>Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause</LINE>
  99 | <LINE>Why thou departed'st from thy native home</LINE>
 100 | <LINE>And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus.</LINE>
 101 | </SPEECH>
 102 | 
 103 | <SPEECH>
 104 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
 105 | <LINE>A heavier task could not have been imposed</LINE>
 106 | <LINE>Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable:</LINE>
 107 | <LINE>Yet, that the world may witness that my end</LINE>
 108 | <LINE>Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,</LINE>
 109 | <LINE>I'll utter what my sorrows give me leave.</LINE>
 110 | <LINE>In Syracusa was I born, and wed</LINE>
 111 | <LINE>Unto a woman, happy but for me,</LINE>
 112 | <LINE>And by me, had not our hap been bad.</LINE>
 113 | <LINE>With her I lived in joy; our wealth increased</LINE>
 114 | <LINE>By prosperous voyages I often made</LINE>
 115 | <LINE>To Epidamnum; till my factor's death</LINE>
 116 | <LINE>And the great care of goods at random left</LINE>
 117 | <LINE>Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse:</LINE>
 118 | <LINE>From whom my absence was not six months old</LINE>
 119 | <LINE>Before herself, almost at fainting under</LINE>
 120 | <LINE>The pleasing punishment that women bear,</LINE>
 121 | <LINE>Had made provision for her following me</LINE>
 122 | <LINE>And soon and safe arrived where I was.</LINE>
 123 | <LINE>There had she not been long, but she became</LINE>
 124 | <LINE>A joyful mother of two goodly sons;</LINE>
 125 | <LINE>And, which was strange, the one so like the other,</LINE>
 126 | <LINE>As could not be distinguish'd but by names.</LINE>
 127 | <LINE>That very hour, and in the self-same inn,</LINE>
 128 | <LINE>A meaner woman was delivered</LINE>
 129 | <LINE>Of such a burden, male twins, both alike:</LINE>
 130 | <LINE>Those,--for their parents were exceeding poor,--</LINE>
 131 | <LINE>I bought and brought up to attend my sons.</LINE>
 132 | <LINE>My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,</LINE>
 133 | <LINE>Made daily motions for our home return:</LINE>
 134 | <LINE>Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon,</LINE>
 135 | <LINE>We came aboard.</LINE>
 136 | <LINE>A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd,</LINE>
 137 | <LINE>Before the always wind-obeying deep</LINE>
 138 | <LINE>Gave any tragic instance of our harm:</LINE>
 139 | <LINE>But longer did we not retain much hope;</LINE>
 140 | <LINE>For what obscured light the heavens did grant</LINE>
 141 | <LINE>Did but convey unto our fearful minds</LINE>
 142 | <LINE>A doubtful warrant of immediate death;</LINE>
 143 | <LINE>Which though myself would gladly have embraced,</LINE>
 144 | <LINE>Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,</LINE>
 145 | <LINE>Weeping before for what she saw must come,</LINE>
 146 | <LINE>And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,</LINE>
 147 | <LINE>That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear,</LINE>
 148 | <LINE>Forced me to seek delays for them and me.</LINE>
 149 | <LINE>And this it was, for other means was none:</LINE>
 150 | <LINE>The sailors sought for safety by our boat,</LINE>
 151 | <LINE>And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us:</LINE>
 152 | <LINE>My wife, more careful for the latter-born,</LINE>
 153 | <LINE>Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast,</LINE>
 154 | <LINE>Such as seafaring men provide for storms;</LINE>
 155 | <LINE>To him one of the other twins was bound,</LINE>
 156 | <LINE>Whilst I had been like heedful of the other:</LINE>
 157 | <LINE>The children thus disposed, my wife and I,</LINE>
 158 | <LINE>Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd,</LINE>
 159 | <LINE>Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast;</LINE>
 160 | <LINE>And floating straight, obedient to the stream,</LINE>
 161 | <LINE>Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.</LINE>
 162 | <LINE>At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,</LINE>
 163 | <LINE>Dispersed those vapours that offended us;</LINE>
 164 | <LINE>And by the benefit of his wished light,</LINE>
 165 | <LINE>The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered</LINE>
 166 | <LINE>Two ships from far making amain to us,</LINE>
 167 | <LINE>Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this:</LINE>
 168 | <LINE>But ere they came,--O, let me say no more!</LINE>
 169 | <LINE>Gather the sequel by that went before.</LINE>
 170 | </SPEECH>
 171 | 
 172 | <SPEECH>
 173 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
 174 | <LINE>Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so;</LINE>
 175 | <LINE>For we may pity, though not pardon thee.</LINE>
 176 | </SPEECH>
 177 | 
 178 | <SPEECH>
 179 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
 180 | <LINE>O, had the gods done so, I had not now</LINE>
 181 | <LINE>Worthily term'd them merciless to us!</LINE>
 182 | <LINE>For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,</LINE>
 183 | <LINE>We were encounterd by a mighty rock;</LINE>
 184 | <LINE>Which being violently borne upon,</LINE>
 185 | <LINE>Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst;</LINE>
 186 | <LINE>So that, in this unjust divorce of us,</LINE>
 187 | <LINE>Fortune had left to both of us alike</LINE>
 188 | <LINE>What to delight in, what to sorrow for.</LINE>
 189 | <LINE>Her part, poor soul! seeming as burdened</LINE>
 190 | <LINE>With lesser weight but not with lesser woe,</LINE>
 191 | <LINE>Was carried with more speed before the wind;</LINE>
 192 | <LINE>And in our sight they three were taken up</LINE>
 193 | <LINE>By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.</LINE>
 194 | <LINE>At length, another ship had seized on us;</LINE>
 195 | <LINE>And, knowing whom it was their hap to save,</LINE>
 196 | <LINE>Gave healthful welcome to their shipwreck'd guests;</LINE>
 197 | <LINE>And would have reft the fishers of their prey,</LINE>
 198 | <LINE>Had not their bark been very slow of sail;</LINE>
 199 | <LINE>And therefore homeward did they bend their course.</LINE>
 200 | <LINE>Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss;</LINE>
 201 | <LINE>That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd,</LINE>
 202 | <LINE>To tell sad stories of my own mishaps.</LINE>
 203 | </SPEECH>
 204 | 
 205 | <SPEECH>
 206 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
 207 | <LINE>And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for,</LINE>
 208 | <LINE>Do me the favour to dilate at full</LINE>
 209 | <LINE>What hath befall'n of them and thee till now.</LINE>
 210 | </SPEECH>
 211 | 
 212 | <SPEECH>
 213 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
 214 | <LINE>My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,</LINE>
 215 | <LINE>At eighteen years became inquisitive</LINE>
 216 | <LINE>After his brother: and importuned me</LINE>
 217 | <LINE>That his attendant--so his case was like,</LINE>
 218 | <LINE>Reft of his brother, but retain'd his name--</LINE>
 219 | <LINE>Might bear him company in the quest of him:</LINE>
 220 | <LINE>Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see,</LINE>
 221 | <LINE>I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.</LINE>
 222 | <LINE>Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece,</LINE>
 223 | <LINE>Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,</LINE>
 224 | <LINE>And, coasting homeward, came to Ephesus;</LINE>
 225 | <LINE>Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought</LINE>
 226 | <LINE>Or that or any place that harbours men.</LINE>
 227 | <LINE>But here must end the story of my life;</LINE>
 228 | <LINE>And happy were I in my timely death,</LINE>
 229 | <LINE>Could all my travels warrant me they live.</LINE>
 230 | </SPEECH>
 231 | 
 232 | <SPEECH>
 233 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
 234 | <LINE>Hapless AEgeon, whom the fates have mark'd</LINE>
 235 | <LINE>To bear the extremity of dire mishap!</LINE>
 236 | <LINE>Now, trust me, were it not against our laws,</LINE>
 237 | <LINE>Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,</LINE>
 238 | <LINE>Which princes, would they, may not disannul,</LINE>
 239 | <LINE>My soul would sue as advocate for thee.</LINE>
 240 | <LINE>But, though thou art adjudged to the death</LINE>
 241 | <LINE>And passed sentence may not be recall'd</LINE>
 242 | <LINE>But to our honour's great disparagement,</LINE>
 243 | <LINE>Yet I will favour thee in what I can.</LINE>
 244 | <LINE>Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day</LINE>
 245 | <LINE>To seek thy life by beneficial help:</LINE>
 246 | <LINE>Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus;</LINE>
 247 | <LINE>Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum,</LINE>
 248 | <LINE>And live; if no, then thou art doom'd to die.</LINE>
 249 | <LINE>Gaoler, take him to thy custody.</LINE>
 250 | </SPEECH>
 251 | 
 252 | <SPEECH>
 253 | <SPEAKER>Gaoler</SPEAKER>
 254 | <LINE>I will, my lord.</LINE>
 255 | </SPEECH>
 256 | 
 257 | <SPEECH>
 258 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
 259 | <LINE>Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,</LINE>
 260 | <LINE>But to procrastinate his lifeless end.</LINE>
 261 | </SPEECH>
 262 | 
 263 | 
 264 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
 265 | </SCENE>
 266 | 
 267 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  The Mart.</TITLE>
 268 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse,
 269 | and First Merchant</STAGEDIR>
 270 | 
 271 | <SPEECH>
 272 | <SPEAKER>First Merchant</SPEAKER>
 273 | <LINE>Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,</LINE>
 274 | <LINE>Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.</LINE>
 275 | <LINE>This very day a Syracusian merchant</LINE>
 276 | <LINE>Is apprehended for arrival here;</LINE>
 277 | <LINE>And not being able to buy out his life</LINE>
 278 | <LINE>According to the statute of the town,</LINE>
 279 | <LINE>Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.</LINE>
 280 | <LINE>There is your money that I had to keep.</LINE>
 281 | </SPEECH>
 282 | 
 283 | <SPEECH>
 284 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 285 | <LINE>Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host,</LINE>
 286 | <LINE>And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee.</LINE>
 287 | <LINE>Within this hour it will be dinner-time:</LINE>
 288 | <LINE>Till that, I'll view the manners of the town,</LINE>
 289 | <LINE>Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,</LINE>
 290 | <LINE>And then return and sleep within mine inn,</LINE>
 291 | <LINE>For with long travel I am stiff and weary.</LINE>
 292 | <LINE>Get thee away.</LINE>
 293 | </SPEECH>
 294 | 
 295 | <SPEECH>
 296 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 297 | <LINE>Many a man would take you at your word,</LINE>
 298 | <LINE>And go indeed, having so good a mean.</LINE>
 299 | </SPEECH>
 300 | 
 301 | 
 302 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
 303 | 
 304 | <SPEECH>
 305 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 306 | <LINE>A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,</LINE>
 307 | <LINE>When I am dull with care and melancholy,</LINE>
 308 | <LINE>Lightens my humour with his merry jests.</LINE>
 309 | <LINE>What, will you walk with me about the town,</LINE>
 310 | <LINE>And then go to my inn and dine with me?</LINE>
 311 | </SPEECH>
 312 | 
 313 | <SPEECH>
 314 | <SPEAKER>First Merchant</SPEAKER>
 315 | <LINE>I am invited, sir, to certain merchants,</LINE>
 316 | <LINE>Of whom I hope to make much benefit;</LINE>
 317 | <LINE>I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock,</LINE>
 318 | <LINE>Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart</LINE>
 319 | <LINE>And afterward consort you till bed-time:</LINE>
 320 | <LINE>My present business calls me from you now.</LINE>
 321 | </SPEECH>
 322 | 
 323 | <SPEECH>
 324 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 325 | <LINE>Farewell till then: I will go lose myself</LINE>
 326 | <LINE>And wander up and down to view the city.</LINE>
 327 | </SPEECH>
 328 | 
 329 | <SPEECH>
 330 | <SPEAKER>First Merchant</SPEAKER>
 331 | <LINE>Sir, I commend you to your own content.</LINE>
 332 | </SPEECH>
 333 | 
 334 | 
 335 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
 336 | 
 337 | <SPEECH>
 338 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 339 | <LINE>He that commends me to mine own content</LINE>
 340 | <LINE>Commends me to the thing I cannot get.</LINE>
 341 | <LINE>I to the world am like a drop of water</LINE>
 342 | <LINE>That in the ocean seeks another drop,</LINE>
 343 | <LINE>Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,</LINE>
 344 | <LINE>Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:</LINE>
 345 | <LINE>So I, to find a mother and a brother,</LINE>
 346 | <LINE>In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.</LINE>
 347 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO of Ephesus</STAGEDIR>
 348 | <LINE>Here comes the almanac of my true date.</LINE>
 349 | <LINE>What now? how chance thou art return'd so soon?</LINE>
 350 | </SPEECH>
 351 | 
 352 | <SPEECH>
 353 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 354 | <LINE>Return'd so soon! rather approach'd too late:</LINE>
 355 | <LINE>The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,</LINE>
 356 | <LINE>The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;</LINE>
 357 | <LINE>My mistress made it one upon my cheek:</LINE>
 358 | <LINE>She is so hot because the meat is cold;</LINE>
 359 | <LINE>The meat is cold because you come not home;</LINE>
 360 | <LINE>You come not home because you have no stomach;</LINE>
 361 | <LINE>You have no stomach having broke your fast;</LINE>
 362 | <LINE>But we that know what 'tis to fast and pray</LINE>
 363 | <LINE>Are penitent for your default to-day.</LINE>
 364 | </SPEECH>
 365 | 
 366 | <SPEECH>
 367 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 368 | <LINE>Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray:</LINE>
 369 | <LINE>Where have you left the money that I gave you?</LINE>
 370 | </SPEECH>
 371 | 
 372 | <SPEECH>
 373 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 374 | <LINE>O,--sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last</LINE>
 375 | <LINE>To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper?</LINE>
 376 | <LINE>The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not.</LINE>
 377 | </SPEECH>
 378 | 
 379 | <SPEECH>
 380 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 381 | <LINE>I am not in a sportive humour now:</LINE>
 382 | <LINE>Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?</LINE>
 383 | <LINE>We being strangers here, how darest thou trust</LINE>
 384 | <LINE>So great a charge from thine own custody?</LINE>
 385 | </SPEECH>
 386 | 
 387 | <SPEECH>
 388 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 389 | <LINE>I pray you, air, as you sit at dinner:</LINE>
 390 | <LINE>I from my mistress come to you in post;</LINE>
 391 | <LINE>If I return, I shall be post indeed,</LINE>
 392 | <LINE>For she will score your fault upon my pate.</LINE>
 393 | <LINE>Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,</LINE>
 394 | <LINE>And strike you home without a messenger.</LINE>
 395 | </SPEECH>
 396 | 
 397 | <SPEECH>
 398 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 399 | <LINE>Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season;</LINE>
 400 | <LINE>Reserve them till a merrier hour than this.</LINE>
 401 | <LINE>Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?</LINE>
 402 | </SPEECH>
 403 | 
 404 | <SPEECH>
 405 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 406 | <LINE>To me, sir? why, you gave no gold to me.</LINE>
 407 | </SPEECH>
 408 | 
 409 | <SPEECH>
 410 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 411 | <LINE>Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness,</LINE>
 412 | <LINE>And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge.</LINE>
 413 | </SPEECH>
 414 | 
 415 | <SPEECH>
 416 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 417 | <LINE>My charge was but to fetch you from the mart</LINE>
 418 | <LINE>Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner:</LINE>
 419 | <LINE>My mistress and her sister stays for you.</LINE>
 420 | </SPEECH>
 421 | 
 422 | <SPEECH>
 423 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 424 | <LINE>In what safe place you have bestow'd my money,</LINE>
 425 | <LINE>Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours</LINE>
 426 | <LINE>That stands on tricks when I am undisposed:</LINE>
 427 | <LINE>Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?</LINE>
 428 | </SPEECH>
 429 | 
 430 | <SPEECH>
 431 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 432 | <LINE>I have some marks of yours upon my pate,</LINE>
 433 | <LINE>Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,</LINE>
 434 | <LINE>But not a thousand marks between you both.</LINE>
 435 | <LINE>If I should pay your worship those again,</LINE>
 436 | <LINE>Perchance you will not bear them patiently.</LINE>
 437 | </SPEECH>
 438 | 
 439 | <SPEECH>
 440 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 441 | <LINE>Thy mistress' marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou?</LINE>
 442 | </SPEECH>
 443 | 
 444 | <SPEECH>
 445 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 446 | <LINE>Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix;</LINE>
 447 | <LINE>She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,</LINE>
 448 | <LINE>And prays that you will hie you home to dinner.</LINE>
 449 | </SPEECH>
 450 | 
 451 | <SPEECH>
 452 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 453 | <LINE>What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,</LINE>
 454 | <LINE>Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave.</LINE>
 455 | </SPEECH>
 456 | 
 457 | <SPEECH>
 458 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 459 | <LINE>What mean you, sir? for God's sake, hold your hands!</LINE>
 460 | <LINE>Nay, and you will not, sir, I'll take my heels.</LINE>
 461 | </SPEECH>
 462 | 
 463 | 
 464 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
 465 | 
 466 | <SPEECH>
 467 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 468 | <LINE>Upon my life, by some device or other</LINE>
 469 | <LINE>The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.</LINE>
 470 | <LINE>They say this town is full of cozenage,</LINE>
 471 | <LINE>As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,</LINE>
 472 | <LINE>Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,</LINE>
 473 | <LINE>Soul-killing witches that deform the body,</LINE>
 474 | <LINE>Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,</LINE>
 475 | <LINE>And many such-like liberties of sin:</LINE>
 476 | <LINE>If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.</LINE>
 477 | <LINE>I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave:</LINE>
 478 | <LINE>I greatly fear my money is not safe.</LINE>
 479 | </SPEECH>
 480 | 
 481 | 
 482 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
 483 | </SCENE>
 484 | 
 485 | </ACT>
 486 | 
 487 | <ACT><TITLE>ACT II</TITLE>
 488 | 
 489 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.</TITLE>
 490 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA</STAGEDIR>
 491 | 
 492 | <SPEECH>
 493 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 494 | <LINE>Neither my husband nor the slave return'd,</LINE>
 495 | <LINE>That in such haste I sent to seek his master!</LINE>
 496 | <LINE>Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock.</LINE>
 497 | </SPEECH>
 498 | 
 499 | <SPEECH>
 500 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 501 | <LINE>Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,</LINE>
 502 | <LINE>And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner.</LINE>
 503 | <LINE>Good sister, let us dine and never fret:</LINE>
 504 | <LINE>A man is master of his liberty:</LINE>
 505 | <LINE>Time is their master, and, when they see time,</LINE>
 506 | <LINE>They'll go or come: if so, be patient, sister.</LINE>
 507 | </SPEECH>
 508 | 
 509 | <SPEECH>
 510 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 511 | <LINE>Why should their liberty than ours be more?</LINE>
 512 | </SPEECH>
 513 | 
 514 | <SPEECH>
 515 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 516 | <LINE>Because their business still lies out o' door.</LINE>
 517 | </SPEECH>
 518 | 
 519 | <SPEECH>
 520 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 521 | <LINE>Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.</LINE>
 522 | </SPEECH>
 523 | 
 524 | <SPEECH>
 525 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 526 | <LINE>O, know he is the bridle of your will.</LINE>
 527 | </SPEECH>
 528 | 
 529 | <SPEECH>
 530 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 531 | <LINE>There's none but asses will be bridled so.</LINE>
 532 | </SPEECH>
 533 | 
 534 | <SPEECH>
 535 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 536 | <LINE>Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe.</LINE>
 537 | <LINE>There's nothing situate under heaven's eye</LINE>
 538 | <LINE>But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky:</LINE>
 539 | <LINE>The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls,</LINE>
 540 | <LINE>Are their males' subjects and at their controls:</LINE>
 541 | <LINE>Men, more divine, the masters of all these,</LINE>
 542 | <LINE>Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas,</LINE>
 543 | <LINE>Indued with intellectual sense and souls,</LINE>
 544 | <LINE>Of more preeminence than fish and fowls,</LINE>
 545 | <LINE>Are masters to their females, and their lords:</LINE>
 546 | <LINE>Then let your will attend on their accords.</LINE>
 547 | </SPEECH>
 548 | 
 549 | <SPEECH>
 550 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 551 | <LINE>This servitude makes you to keep unwed.</LINE>
 552 | </SPEECH>
 553 | 
 554 | <SPEECH>
 555 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 556 | <LINE>Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed.</LINE>
 557 | </SPEECH>
 558 | 
 559 | <SPEECH>
 560 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 561 | <LINE>But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway.</LINE>
 562 | </SPEECH>
 563 | 
 564 | <SPEECH>
 565 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 566 | <LINE>Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey.</LINE>
 567 | </SPEECH>
 568 | 
 569 | <SPEECH>
 570 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 571 | <LINE>How if your husband start some other where?</LINE>
 572 | </SPEECH>
 573 | 
 574 | <SPEECH>
 575 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 576 | <LINE>Till he come home again, I would forbear.</LINE>
 577 | </SPEECH>
 578 | 
 579 | <SPEECH>
 580 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 581 | <LINE>Patience unmoved! no marvel though she pause;</LINE>
 582 | <LINE>They can be meek that have no other cause.</LINE>
 583 | <LINE>A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,</LINE>
 584 | <LINE>We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;</LINE>
 585 | <LINE>But were we burdened with like weight of pain,</LINE>
 586 | <LINE>As much or more would we ourselves complain:</LINE>
 587 | <LINE>So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,</LINE>
 588 | <LINE>With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me,</LINE>
 589 | <LINE>But, if thou live to see like right bereft,</LINE>
 590 | <LINE>This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left.</LINE>
 591 | </SPEECH>
 592 | 
 593 | <SPEECH>
 594 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 595 | <LINE>Well, I will marry one day, but to try.</LINE>
 596 | <LINE>Here comes your man; now is your husband nigh.</LINE>
 597 | </SPEECH>
 598 | 
 599 | 
 600 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO of Ephesus</STAGEDIR>
 601 | 
 602 | <SPEECH>
 603 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 604 | <LINE>Say, is your tardy master now at hand?</LINE>
 605 | </SPEECH>
 606 | 
 607 | <SPEECH>
 608 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 609 | <LINE>Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears</LINE>
 610 | <LINE>can witness.</LINE>
 611 | </SPEECH>
 612 | 
 613 | <SPEECH>
 614 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 615 | <LINE>Say, didst thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind?</LINE>
 616 | </SPEECH>
 617 | 
 618 | <SPEECH>
 619 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 620 | <LINE>Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear:</LINE>
 621 | <LINE>Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it.</LINE>
 622 | </SPEECH>
 623 | 
 624 | <SPEECH>
 625 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 626 | <LINE>Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning?</LINE>
 627 | </SPEECH>
 628 | 
 629 | <SPEECH>
 630 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 631 | <LINE>Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his</LINE>
 632 | <LINE>blows; and withal so doubtfully that I could scarce</LINE>
 633 | <LINE>understand them.</LINE>
 634 | </SPEECH>
 635 | 
 636 | <SPEECH>
 637 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 638 | <LINE>But say, I prithee, is he coming home? It seems he</LINE>
 639 | <LINE>hath great care to please his wife.</LINE>
 640 | </SPEECH>
 641 | 
 642 | <SPEECH>
 643 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 644 | <LINE>Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad.</LINE>
 645 | </SPEECH>
 646 | 
 647 | <SPEECH>
 648 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 649 | <LINE>Horn-mad, thou villain!</LINE>
 650 | </SPEECH>
 651 | 
 652 | <SPEECH>
 653 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 654 | <LINE>I mean not cuckold-mad;</LINE>
 655 | <LINE>But, sure, he is stark mad.</LINE>
 656 | <LINE>When I desired him to come home to dinner,</LINE>
 657 | <LINE>He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold:</LINE>
 658 | <LINE>''Tis dinner-time,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he;</LINE>
 659 | <LINE>'Your meat doth burn,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he:</LINE>
 660 | <LINE>'Will you come home?' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he.</LINE>
 661 | <LINE>'Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?'</LINE>
 662 | <LINE>'The pig,' quoth I, 'is burn'd;' 'My gold!' quoth he:</LINE>
 663 | <LINE>'My mistress, sir' quoth I; 'Hang up thy mistress!</LINE>
 664 | <LINE>I know not thy mistress; out on thy mistress!'</LINE>
 665 | </SPEECH>
 666 | 
 667 | <SPEECH>
 668 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 669 | <LINE>Quoth who?</LINE>
 670 | </SPEECH>
 671 | 
 672 | <SPEECH>
 673 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 674 | <LINE>Quoth my master:</LINE>
 675 | <LINE>'I know,' quoth he, 'no house, no wife, no mistress.'</LINE>
 676 | <LINE>So that my errand, due unto my tongue,</LINE>
 677 | <LINE>I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders;</LINE>
 678 | <LINE>For, in conclusion, he did beat me there.</LINE>
 679 | </SPEECH>
 680 | 
 681 | <SPEECH>
 682 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 683 | <LINE>Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home.</LINE>
 684 | </SPEECH>
 685 | 
 686 | <SPEECH>
 687 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 688 | <LINE>Go back again, and be new beaten home?</LINE>
 689 | <LINE>For God's sake, send some other messenger.</LINE>
 690 | </SPEECH>
 691 | 
 692 | <SPEECH>
 693 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 694 | <LINE>Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across.</LINE>
 695 | </SPEECH>
 696 | 
 697 | <SPEECH>
 698 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 699 | <LINE>And he will bless that cross with other beating:</LINE>
 700 | <LINE>Between you I shall have a holy head.</LINE>
 701 | </SPEECH>
 702 | 
 703 | <SPEECH>
 704 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 705 | <LINE>Hence, prating peasant! fetch thy master home.</LINE>
 706 | </SPEECH>
 707 | 
 708 | <SPEECH>
 709 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
 710 | <LINE>Am I so round with you as you with me,</LINE>
 711 | <LINE>That like a football you do spurn me thus?</LINE>
 712 | <LINE>You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither:</LINE>
 713 | <LINE>If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.</LINE>
 714 | </SPEECH>
 715 | 
 716 | 
 717 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
 718 | 
 719 | <SPEECH>
 720 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 721 | <LINE>Fie, how impatience loureth in your face!</LINE>
 722 | </SPEECH>
 723 | 
 724 | <SPEECH>
 725 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 726 | <LINE>His company must do his minions grace,</LINE>
 727 | <LINE>Whilst I at home starve for a merry look.</LINE>
 728 | <LINE>Hath homely age the alluring beauty took</LINE>
 729 | <LINE>From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it:</LINE>
 730 | <LINE>Are my discourses dull? barren my wit?</LINE>
 731 | <LINE>If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd,</LINE>
 732 | <LINE>Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard:</LINE>
 733 | <LINE>Do their gay vestments his affections bait?</LINE>
 734 | <LINE>That's not my fault: he's master of my state:</LINE>
 735 | <LINE>What ruins are in me that can be found,</LINE>
 736 | <LINE>By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground</LINE>
 737 | <LINE>Of my defeatures. My decayed fair</LINE>
 738 | <LINE>A sunny look of his would soon repair</LINE>
 739 | <LINE>But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale</LINE>
 740 | <LINE>And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale.</LINE>
 741 | </SPEECH>
 742 | 
 743 | <SPEECH>
 744 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 745 | <LINE>Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence!</LINE>
 746 | </SPEECH>
 747 | 
 748 | <SPEECH>
 749 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
 750 | <LINE>Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense.</LINE>
 751 | <LINE>I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,</LINE>
 752 | <LINE>Or else what lets it but he would be here?</LINE>
 753 | <LINE>Sister, you know he promised me a chain;</LINE>
 754 | <LINE>Would that alone, alone he would detain,</LINE>
 755 | <LINE>So he would keep fair quarter with his bed!</LINE>
 756 | <LINE>I see the jewel best enamelled</LINE>
 757 | <LINE>Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still,</LINE>
 758 | <LINE>That others touch, and often touching will</LINE>
 759 | <LINE>Wear gold: and no man that hath a name,</LINE>
 760 | <LINE>By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.</LINE>
 761 | <LINE>Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,</LINE>
 762 | <LINE>I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die.</LINE>
 763 | </SPEECH>
 764 | 
 765 | <SPEECH>
 766 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
 767 | <LINE>How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!</LINE>
 768 | </SPEECH>
 769 | 
 770 | 
 771 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
 772 | </SCENE>
 773 | 
 774 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  A public place.</TITLE>
 775 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
 776 | 
 777 | <SPEECH>
 778 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 779 | <LINE>The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up</LINE>
 780 | <LINE>Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave</LINE>
 781 | <LINE>Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out</LINE>
 782 | <LINE>By computation and mine host's report.</LINE>
 783 | <LINE>I could not speak with Dromio since at first</LINE>
 784 | <LINE>I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes.</LINE>
 785 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
 786 | <LINE>How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd?</LINE>
 787 | <LINE>As you love strokes, so jest with me again.</LINE>
 788 | <LINE>You know no Centaur? you received no gold?</LINE>
 789 | <LINE>Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?</LINE>
 790 | <LINE>My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,</LINE>
 791 | <LINE>That thus so madly thou didst answer me?</LINE>
 792 | </SPEECH>
 793 | 
 794 | <SPEECH>
 795 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 796 | <LINE>What answer, sir? when spake I such a word?</LINE>
 797 | </SPEECH>
 798 | 
 799 | <SPEECH>
 800 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 801 | <LINE>Even now, even here, not half an hour since.</LINE>
 802 | </SPEECH>
 803 | 
 804 | <SPEECH>
 805 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 806 | <LINE>I did not see you since you sent me hence,</LINE>
 807 | <LINE>Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me.</LINE>
 808 | </SPEECH>
 809 | 
 810 | <SPEECH>
 811 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 812 | <LINE>Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt,</LINE>
 813 | <LINE>And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner;</LINE>
 814 | <LINE>For which, I hope, thou felt'st I was displeased.</LINE>
 815 | </SPEECH>
 816 | 
 817 | <SPEECH>
 818 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 819 | <LINE>I am glad to see you in this merry vein:</LINE>
 820 | <LINE>What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me.</LINE>
 821 | </SPEECH>
 822 | 
 823 | <SPEECH>
 824 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 825 | <LINE>Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth?</LINE>
 826 | <LINE>Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that.</LINE>
 827 | </SPEECH>
 828 | 
 829 | 
 830 | <STAGEDIR>Beating him</STAGEDIR>
 831 | 
 832 | <SPEECH>
 833 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 834 | <LINE>Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is earnest:</LINE>
 835 | <LINE>Upon what bargain do you give it me?</LINE>
 836 | </SPEECH>
 837 | 
 838 | <SPEECH>
 839 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 840 | <LINE>Because that I familiarly sometimes</LINE>
 841 | <LINE>Do use you for my fool and chat with you,</LINE>
 842 | <LINE>Your sauciness will jest upon my love</LINE>
 843 | <LINE>And make a common of my serious hours.</LINE>
 844 | <LINE>When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,</LINE>
 845 | <LINE>But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.</LINE>
 846 | <LINE>If you will jest with me, know my aspect,</LINE>
 847 | <LINE>And fashion your demeanor to my looks,</LINE>
 848 | <LINE>Or I will beat this method in your sconce.</LINE>
 849 | </SPEECH>
 850 | 
 851 | <SPEECH>
 852 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 853 | <LINE>Sconce call you it? so you would leave battering, I</LINE>
 854 | <LINE>had rather have it a head: an you use these blows</LINE>
 855 | <LINE>long, I must get a sconce for my head and ensconce</LINE>
 856 | <LINE>it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.</LINE>
 857 | <LINE>But, I pray, sir why am I beaten?</LINE>
 858 | </SPEECH>
 859 | 
 860 | <SPEECH>
 861 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 862 | <LINE>Dost thou not know?</LINE>
 863 | </SPEECH>
 864 | 
 865 | <SPEECH>
 866 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 867 | <LINE>Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten.</LINE>
 868 | </SPEECH>
 869 | 
 870 | <SPEECH>
 871 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 872 | <LINE>Shall I tell you why?</LINE>
 873 | </SPEECH>
 874 | 
 875 | <SPEECH>
 876 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 877 | <LINE>Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath</LINE>
 878 | <LINE>a wherefore.</LINE>
 879 | </SPEECH>
 880 | 
 881 | <SPEECH>
 882 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 883 | <LINE>Why, first,--for flouting me; and then, wherefore--</LINE>
 884 | <LINE>For urging it the second time to me.</LINE>
 885 | </SPEECH>
 886 | 
 887 | <SPEECH>
 888 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 889 | <LINE>Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season,</LINE>
 890 | <LINE>When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme</LINE>
 891 | <LINE>nor reason?</LINE>
 892 | <LINE>Well, sir, I thank you.</LINE>
 893 | </SPEECH>
 894 | 
 895 | <SPEECH>
 896 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 897 | <LINE>Thank me, sir, for what?</LINE>
 898 | </SPEECH>
 899 | 
 900 | <SPEECH>
 901 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 902 | <LINE>Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing.</LINE>
 903 | </SPEECH>
 904 | 
 905 | <SPEECH>
 906 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 907 | <LINE>I'll make you amends next, to give you nothing for</LINE>
 908 | <LINE>something. But say, sir, is it dinner-time?</LINE>
 909 | </SPEECH>
 910 | 
 911 | <SPEECH>
 912 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 913 | <LINE>No, sir; I think the meat wants that I have.</LINE>
 914 | </SPEECH>
 915 | 
 916 | <SPEECH>
 917 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 918 | <LINE>In good time, sir; what's that?</LINE>
 919 | </SPEECH>
 920 | 
 921 | <SPEECH>
 922 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 923 | <LINE>Basting.</LINE>
 924 | </SPEECH>
 925 | 
 926 | <SPEECH>
 927 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 928 | <LINE>Well, sir, then 'twill be dry.</LINE>
 929 | </SPEECH>
 930 | 
 931 | <SPEECH>
 932 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 933 | <LINE>If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it.</LINE>
 934 | </SPEECH>
 935 | 
 936 | <SPEECH>
 937 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 938 | <LINE>Your reason?</LINE>
 939 | </SPEECH>
 940 | 
 941 | <SPEECH>
 942 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 943 | <LINE>Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another</LINE>
 944 | <LINE>dry basting.</LINE>
 945 | </SPEECH>
 946 | 
 947 | <SPEECH>
 948 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 949 | <LINE>Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a</LINE>
 950 | <LINE>time for all things.</LINE>
 951 | </SPEECH>
 952 | 
 953 | <SPEECH>
 954 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 955 | <LINE>I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric.</LINE>
 956 | </SPEECH>
 957 | 
 958 | <SPEECH>
 959 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 960 | <LINE>By what rule, sir?</LINE>
 961 | </SPEECH>
 962 | 
 963 | <SPEECH>
 964 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 965 | <LINE>Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald</LINE>
 966 | <LINE>pate of father Time himself.</LINE>
 967 | </SPEECH>
 968 | 
 969 | <SPEECH>
 970 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 971 | <LINE>Let's hear it.</LINE>
 972 | </SPEECH>
 973 | 
 974 | <SPEECH>
 975 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 976 | <LINE>There's no time for a man to recover his hair that</LINE>
 977 | <LINE>grows bald by nature.</LINE>
 978 | </SPEECH>
 979 | 
 980 | <SPEECH>
 981 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 982 | <LINE>May he not do it by fine and recovery?</LINE>
 983 | </SPEECH>
 984 | 
 985 | <SPEECH>
 986 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 987 | <LINE>Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the</LINE>
 988 | <LINE>lost hair of another man.</LINE>
 989 | </SPEECH>
 990 | 
 991 | <SPEECH>
 992 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 993 | <LINE>Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is,</LINE>
 994 | <LINE>so plentiful an excrement?</LINE>
 995 | </SPEECH>
 996 | 
 997 | <SPEECH>
 998 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
 999 | <LINE>Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts;</LINE>
1000 | <LINE>and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.</LINE>
1001 | </SPEECH>
1002 | 
1003 | <SPEECH>
1004 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1005 | <LINE>Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.</LINE>
1006 | </SPEECH>
1007 | 
1008 | <SPEECH>
1009 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1010 | <LINE>Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair.</LINE>
1011 | </SPEECH>
1012 | 
1013 | <SPEECH>
1014 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1015 | <LINE>Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.</LINE>
1016 | </SPEECH>
1017 | 
1018 | <SPEECH>
1019 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1020 | <LINE>The plainer dealer, the sooner lost: yet he loseth</LINE>
1021 | <LINE>it in a kind of jollity.</LINE>
1022 | </SPEECH>
1023 | 
1024 | <SPEECH>
1025 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1026 | <LINE>For what reason?</LINE>
1027 | </SPEECH>
1028 | 
1029 | <SPEECH>
1030 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1031 | <LINE>For two; and sound ones too.</LINE>
1032 | </SPEECH>
1033 | 
1034 | <SPEECH>
1035 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1036 | <LINE>Nay, not sound, I pray you.</LINE>
1037 | </SPEECH>
1038 | 
1039 | <SPEECH>
1040 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1041 | <LINE>Sure ones, then.</LINE>
1042 | </SPEECH>
1043 | 
1044 | <SPEECH>
1045 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1046 | <LINE>Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing.</LINE>
1047 | </SPEECH>
1048 | 
1049 | <SPEECH>
1050 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1051 | <LINE>Certain ones then.</LINE>
1052 | </SPEECH>
1053 | 
1054 | <SPEECH>
1055 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1056 | <LINE>Name them.</LINE>
1057 | </SPEECH>
1058 | 
1059 | <SPEECH>
1060 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1061 | <LINE>The one, to save the money that he spends in</LINE>
1062 | <LINE>trimming; the other, that at dinner they should not</LINE>
1063 | <LINE>drop in his porridge.</LINE>
1064 | </SPEECH>
1065 | 
1066 | <SPEECH>
1067 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1068 | <LINE>You would all this time have proved there is no</LINE>
1069 | <LINE>time for all things.</LINE>
1070 | </SPEECH>
1071 | 
1072 | <SPEECH>
1073 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1074 | <LINE>Marry, and did, sir; namely, no time to recover hair</LINE>
1075 | <LINE>lost by nature.</LINE>
1076 | </SPEECH>
1077 | 
1078 | <SPEECH>
1079 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1080 | <LINE>But your reason was not substantial, why there is no</LINE>
1081 | <LINE>time to recover.</LINE>
1082 | </SPEECH>
1083 | 
1084 | <SPEECH>
1085 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1086 | <LINE>Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald and therefore</LINE>
1087 | <LINE>to the world's end will have bald followers.</LINE>
1088 | </SPEECH>
1089 | 
1090 | <SPEECH>
1091 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1092 | <LINE>I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion:</LINE>
1093 | <LINE>But, soft! who wafts us yonder?</LINE>
1094 | </SPEECH>
1095 | 
1096 | 
1097 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA</STAGEDIR>
1098 | 
1099 | <SPEECH>
1100 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
1101 | <LINE>Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown:</LINE>
1102 | <LINE>Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects;</LINE>
1103 | <LINE>I am not Adriana nor thy wife.</LINE>
1104 | <LINE>The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow</LINE>
1105 | <LINE>That never words were music to thine ear,</LINE>
1106 | <LINE>That never object pleasing in thine eye,</LINE>
1107 | <LINE>That never touch well welcome to thy hand,</LINE>
1108 | <LINE>That never meat sweet-savor'd in thy taste,</LINE>
1109 | <LINE>Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved to thee.</LINE>
1110 | <LINE>How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it,</LINE>
1111 | <LINE>That thou art thus estranged from thyself?</LINE>
1112 | <LINE>Thyself I call it, being strange to me,</LINE>
1113 | <LINE>That, undividable, incorporate,</LINE>
1114 | <LINE>Am better than thy dear self's better part.</LINE>
1115 | <LINE>Ah, do not tear away thyself from me!</LINE>
1116 | <LINE>For know, my love, as easy mayest thou fall</LINE>
1117 | <LINE>A drop of water in the breaking gulf,</LINE>
1118 | <LINE>And take unmingled that same drop again,</LINE>
1119 | <LINE>Without addition or diminishing,</LINE>
1120 | <LINE>As take from me thyself and not me too.</LINE>
1121 | <LINE>How dearly would it touch me to the quick,</LINE>
1122 | <LINE>Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious</LINE>
1123 | <LINE>And that this body, consecrate to thee,</LINE>
1124 | <LINE>By ruffian lust should be contaminate!</LINE>
1125 | <LINE>Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me</LINE>
1126 | <LINE>And hurl the name of husband in my face</LINE>
1127 | <LINE>And tear the stain'd skin off my harlot-brow</LINE>
1128 | <LINE>And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring</LINE>
1129 | <LINE>And break it with a deep-divorcing vow?</LINE>
1130 | <LINE>I know thou canst; and therefore see thou do it.</LINE>
1131 | <LINE>I am possess'd with an adulterate blot;</LINE>
1132 | <LINE>My blood is mingled with the crime of lust:</LINE>
1133 | <LINE>For if we too be one and thou play false,</LINE>
1134 | <LINE>I do digest the poison of thy flesh,</LINE>
1135 | <LINE>Being strumpeted by thy contagion.</LINE>
1136 | <LINE>Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed;</LINE>
1137 | <LINE>I live unstain'd, thou undishonoured.</LINE>
1138 | </SPEECH>
1139 | 
1140 | <SPEECH>
1141 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1142 | <LINE>Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not:</LINE>
1143 | <LINE>In Ephesus I am but two hours old,</LINE>
1144 | <LINE>As strange unto your town as to your talk;</LINE>
1145 | <LINE>Who, every word by all my wit being scann'd,</LINE>
1146 | <LINE>Want wit in all one word to understand.</LINE>
1147 | </SPEECH>
1148 | 
1149 | <SPEECH>
1150 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1151 | <LINE>Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you!</LINE>
1152 | <LINE>When were you wont to use my sister thus?</LINE>
1153 | <LINE>She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner.</LINE>
1154 | </SPEECH>
1155 | 
1156 | <SPEECH>
1157 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1158 | <LINE>By Dromio?</LINE>
1159 | </SPEECH>
1160 | 
1161 | <SPEECH>
1162 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1163 | <LINE>By me?</LINE>
1164 | </SPEECH>
1165 | 
1166 | <SPEECH>
1167 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
1168 | <LINE>By thee; and this thou didst return from him,</LINE>
1169 | <LINE>That he did buffet thee, and, in his blows,</LINE>
1170 | <LINE>Denied my house for his, me for his wife.</LINE>
1171 | </SPEECH>
1172 | 
1173 | <SPEECH>
1174 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1175 | <LINE>Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman?</LINE>
1176 | <LINE>What is the course and drift of your compact?</LINE>
1177 | </SPEECH>
1178 | 
1179 | <SPEECH>
1180 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1181 | <LINE>I, sir? I never saw her till this time.</LINE>
1182 | </SPEECH>
1183 | 
1184 | <SPEECH>
1185 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1186 | <LINE>Villain, thou liest; for even her very words</LINE>
1187 | <LINE>Didst thou deliver to me on the mart.</LINE>
1188 | </SPEECH>
1189 | 
1190 | <SPEECH>
1191 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1192 | <LINE>I never spake with her in all my life.</LINE>
1193 | </SPEECH>
1194 | 
1195 | <SPEECH>
1196 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1197 | <LINE>How can she thus then call us by our names,</LINE>
1198 | <LINE>Unless it be by inspiration.</LINE>
1199 | </SPEECH>
1200 | 
1201 | <SPEECH>
1202 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
1203 | <LINE>How ill agrees it with your gravity</LINE>
1204 | <LINE>To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,</LINE>
1205 | <LINE>Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!</LINE>
1206 | <LINE>Be it my wrong you are from me exempt,</LINE>
1207 | <LINE>But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.</LINE>
1208 | <LINE>Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:</LINE>
1209 | <LINE>Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,</LINE>
1210 | <LINE>Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,</LINE>
1211 | <LINE>Makes me with thy strength to communicate:</LINE>
1212 | <LINE>If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,</LINE>
1213 | <LINE>Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;</LINE>
1214 | <LINE>Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion</LINE>
1215 | <LINE>Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.</LINE>
1216 | </SPEECH>
1217 | 
1218 | <SPEECH>
1219 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1220 | <LINE>To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme:</LINE>
1221 | <LINE>What, was I married to her in my dream?</LINE>
1222 | <LINE>Or sleep I now and think I hear all this?</LINE>
1223 | <LINE>What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?</LINE>
1224 | <LINE>Until I know this sure uncertainty,</LINE>
1225 | <LINE>I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy.</LINE>
1226 | </SPEECH>
1227 | 
1228 | <SPEECH>
1229 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1230 | <LINE>Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner.</LINE>
1231 | </SPEECH>
1232 | 
1233 | <SPEECH>
1234 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1235 | <LINE>O, for my beads! I cross me for a sinner.</LINE>
1236 | <LINE>This is the fairy land: O spite of spites!</LINE>
1237 | <LINE>We talk with goblins, owls and sprites:</LINE>
1238 | <LINE>If we obey them not, this will ensue,</LINE>
1239 | <LINE>They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.</LINE>
1240 | </SPEECH>
1241 | 
1242 | <SPEECH>
1243 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1244 | <LINE>Why pratest thou to thyself and answer'st not?</LINE>
1245 | <LINE>Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot!</LINE>
1246 | </SPEECH>
1247 | 
1248 | <SPEECH>
1249 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1250 | <LINE>I am transformed, master, am I not?</LINE>
1251 | </SPEECH>
1252 | 
1253 | <SPEECH>
1254 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1255 | <LINE>I think thou art in mind, and so am I.</LINE>
1256 | </SPEECH>
1257 | 
1258 | <SPEECH>
1259 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1260 | <LINE>Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape.</LINE>
1261 | </SPEECH>
1262 | 
1263 | <SPEECH>
1264 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1265 | <LINE>Thou hast thine own form.</LINE>
1266 | </SPEECH>
1267 | 
1268 | <SPEECH>
1269 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1270 | <LINE>No, I am an ape.</LINE>
1271 | </SPEECH>
1272 | 
1273 | <SPEECH>
1274 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1275 | <LINE>If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass.</LINE>
1276 | </SPEECH>
1277 | 
1278 | <SPEECH>
1279 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1280 | <LINE>'Tis true; she rides me and I long for grass.</LINE>
1281 | <LINE>'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be</LINE>
1282 | <LINE>But I should know her as well as she knows me.</LINE>
1283 | </SPEECH>
1284 | 
1285 | <SPEECH>
1286 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
1287 | <LINE>Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,</LINE>
1288 | <LINE>To put the finger in the eye and weep,</LINE>
1289 | <LINE>Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn.</LINE>
1290 | <LINE>Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate.</LINE>
1291 | <LINE>Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day</LINE>
1292 | <LINE>And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks.</LINE>
1293 | <LINE>Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,</LINE>
1294 | <LINE>Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter.</LINE>
1295 | <LINE>Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well.</LINE>
1296 | </SPEECH>
1297 | 
1298 | <SPEECH>
1299 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1300 | <LINE>Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?</LINE>
1301 | <LINE>Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised?</LINE>
1302 | <LINE>Known unto these, and to myself disguised!</LINE>
1303 | <LINE>I'll say as they say and persever so,</LINE>
1304 | <LINE>And in this mist at all adventures go.</LINE>
1305 | </SPEECH>
1306 | 
1307 | <SPEECH>
1308 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1309 | <LINE>Master, shall I be porter at the gate?</LINE>
1310 | </SPEECH>
1311 | 
1312 | <SPEECH>
1313 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
1314 | <LINE>Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate.</LINE>
1315 | </SPEECH>
1316 | 
1317 | <SPEECH>
1318 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1319 | <LINE>Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late.</LINE>
1320 | </SPEECH>
1321 | 
1322 | 
1323 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
1324 | </SCENE>
1325 | 
1326 | </ACT>
1327 | 
1328 | <ACT><TITLE>ACT III</TITLE>
1329 | 
1330 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Before the house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.</TITLE>
1331 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, DROMIO of Ephesus,
1332 | ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR</STAGEDIR>
1333 | 
1334 | <SPEECH>
1335 | <SPEAKER>OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1336 | <LINE>Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all;</LINE>
1337 | <LINE>My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours:</LINE>
1338 | <LINE>Say that I linger'd with you at your shop</LINE>
1339 | <LINE>To see the making of her carcanet,</LINE>
1340 | <LINE>And that to-morrow you will bring it home.</LINE>
1341 | <LINE>But here's a villain that would face me down</LINE>
1342 | <LINE>He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,</LINE>
1343 | <LINE>And charged him with a thousand marks in gold,</LINE>
1344 | <LINE>And that I did deny my wife and house.</LINE>
1345 | <LINE>Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?</LINE>
1346 | </SPEECH>
1347 | 
1348 | <SPEECH>
1349 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1350 | <LINE>Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know;</LINE>
1351 | <LINE>That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show:</LINE>
1352 | <LINE>If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink,</LINE>
1353 | <LINE>Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.</LINE>
1354 | </SPEECH>
1355 | 
1356 | <SPEECH>
1357 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1358 | <LINE>I think thou art an ass.</LINE>
1359 | </SPEECH>
1360 | 
1361 | <SPEECH>
1362 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1363 | <LINE>Marry, so it doth appear</LINE>
1364 | <LINE>By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear.</LINE>
1365 | <LINE>I should kick, being kick'd; and, being at that pass,</LINE>
1366 | <LINE>You would keep from my heels and beware of an ass.</LINE>
1367 | </SPEECH>
1368 | 
1369 | <SPEECH>
1370 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1371 | <LINE>You're sad, Signior Balthazar: pray God our cheer</LINE>
1372 | <LINE>May answer my good will and your good welcome here.</LINE>
1373 | </SPEECH>
1374 | 
1375 | <SPEECH>
1376 | <SPEAKER>BALTHAZAR</SPEAKER>
1377 | <LINE>I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your</LINE>
1378 | <LINE>welcome dear.</LINE>
1379 | </SPEECH>
1380 | 
1381 | <SPEECH>
1382 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1383 | <LINE>O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish,</LINE>
1384 | <LINE>A table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish.</LINE>
1385 | </SPEECH>
1386 | 
1387 | <SPEECH>
1388 | <SPEAKER>BALTHAZAR</SPEAKER>
1389 | <LINE>Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords.</LINE>
1390 | </SPEECH>
1391 | 
1392 | <SPEECH>
1393 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1394 | <LINE>And welcome more common; for that's nothing but words.</LINE>
1395 | </SPEECH>
1396 | 
1397 | <SPEECH>
1398 | <SPEAKER>BALTHAZAR</SPEAKER>
1399 | <LINE>Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.</LINE>
1400 | </SPEECH>
1401 | 
1402 | <SPEECH>
1403 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1404 | <LINE>Ay, to a niggardly host, and more sparing guest:</LINE>
1405 | <LINE>But though my cates be mean, take them in good part;</LINE>
1406 | <LINE>Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart.</LINE>
1407 | <LINE>But, soft! my door is lock'd. Go bid them let us in.</LINE>
1408 | </SPEECH>
1409 | 
1410 | <SPEECH>
1411 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1412 | <LINE>Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicel, Gillian, Ginn!</LINE>
1413 | </SPEECH>
1414 | 
1415 | <SPEECH>
1416 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1417 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb,</LINE>
1418 | <LINE>idiot, patch!</LINE>
1419 | <LINE>Either get thee from the door, or sit down at the hatch.</LINE>
1420 | <LINE>Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st</LINE>
1421 | <LINE>for such store,</LINE>
1422 | <LINE>When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door.</LINE>
1423 | </SPEECH>
1424 | 
1425 | <SPEECH>
1426 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1427 | <LINE>What patch is made our porter? My master stays in</LINE>
1428 | <LINE>the street.</LINE>
1429 | </SPEECH>
1430 | 
1431 | <SPEECH>
1432 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1433 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Let him walk from whence he came, lest he</LINE>
1434 | <LINE>catch cold on's feet.</LINE>
1435 | </SPEECH>
1436 | 
1437 | <SPEECH>
1438 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1439 | <LINE>Who talks within there? ho, open the door!</LINE>
1440 | </SPEECH>
1441 | 
1442 | <SPEECH>
1443 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1444 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Right, sir; I'll tell you when, an you tell</LINE>
1445 | <LINE>me wherefore.</LINE>
1446 | </SPEECH>
1447 | 
1448 | <SPEECH>
1449 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1450 | <LINE>Wherefore? for my dinner: I have not dined to-day.</LINE>
1451 | </SPEECH>
1452 | 
1453 | <SPEECH>
1454 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1455 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Nor to-day here you must not; come again</LINE>
1456 | <LINE>when you may.</LINE>
1457 | </SPEECH>
1458 | 
1459 | <SPEECH>
1460 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1461 | <LINE>What art thou that keepest me out from the house I owe?</LINE>
1462 | </SPEECH>
1463 | 
1464 | <SPEECH>
1465 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1466 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  The porter for this time, sir, and my name</LINE>
1467 | <LINE>is Dromio.</LINE>
1468 | </SPEECH>
1469 | 
1470 | <SPEECH>
1471 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1472 | <LINE>O villain! thou hast stolen both mine office and my name.</LINE>
1473 | <LINE>The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.</LINE>
1474 | <LINE>If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place,</LINE>
1475 | <LINE>Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name or thy</LINE>
1476 | <LINE>name for an ass.</LINE>
1477 | </SPEECH>
1478 | 
1479 | <SPEECH>
1480 | <SPEAKER>LUCE</SPEAKER>
1481 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  What a coil is there, Dromio? who are those</LINE>
1482 | <LINE>at the gate?</LINE>
1483 | </SPEECH>
1484 | 
1485 | <SPEECH>
1486 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1487 | <LINE>Let my master in, Luce.</LINE>
1488 | </SPEECH>
1489 | 
1490 | <SPEECH>
1491 | <SPEAKER>LUCE</SPEAKER>
1492 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Faith, no; he comes too late;</LINE>
1493 | <LINE>And so tell your master.</LINE>
1494 | </SPEECH>
1495 | 
1496 | <SPEECH>
1497 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1498 | <LINE>O Lord, I must laugh!</LINE>
1499 | <LINE>Have at you with a proverb--Shall I set in my staff?</LINE>
1500 | </SPEECH>
1501 | 
1502 | <SPEECH>
1503 | <SPEAKER>LUCE</SPEAKER>
1504 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Have at you with another; that's--When?</LINE>
1505 | <LINE>can you tell?</LINE>
1506 | </SPEECH>
1507 | 
1508 | <SPEECH>
1509 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1510 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  If thy name be call'd Luce--Luce, thou hast</LINE>
1511 | <LINE>answered him well.</LINE>
1512 | </SPEECH>
1513 | 
1514 | <SPEECH>
1515 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1516 | <LINE>Do you hear, you minion? you'll let us in, I hope?</LINE>
1517 | </SPEECH>
1518 | 
1519 | <SPEECH>
1520 | <SPEAKER>LUCE</SPEAKER>
1521 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  I thought to have asked you.</LINE>
1522 | </SPEECH>
1523 | 
1524 | <SPEECH>
1525 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1526 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  And you said no.</LINE>
1527 | </SPEECH>
1528 | 
1529 | <SPEECH>
1530 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1531 | <LINE>So, come, help: well struck! there was blow for blow.</LINE>
1532 | </SPEECH>
1533 | 
1534 | <SPEECH>
1535 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1536 | <LINE>Thou baggage, let me in.</LINE>
1537 | </SPEECH>
1538 | 
1539 | <SPEECH>
1540 | <SPEAKER>LUCE</SPEAKER>
1541 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Can you tell for whose sake?</LINE>
1542 | </SPEECH>
1543 | 
1544 | <SPEECH>
1545 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1546 | <LINE>Master, knock the door hard.</LINE>
1547 | </SPEECH>
1548 | 
1549 | <SPEECH>
1550 | <SPEAKER>LUCE</SPEAKER>
1551 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Let him knock till it ache.</LINE>
1552 | </SPEECH>
1553 | 
1554 | <SPEECH>
1555 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1556 | <LINE>You'll cry for this, minion, if I beat the door down.</LINE>
1557 | </SPEECH>
1558 | 
1559 | <SPEECH>
1560 | <SPEAKER>LUCE</SPEAKER>
1561 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town?</LINE>
1562 | </SPEECH>
1563 | 
1564 | <SPEECH>
1565 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
1566 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Who is that at the door that keeps all</LINE>
1567 | <LINE>this noise?</LINE>
1568 | </SPEECH>
1569 | 
1570 | <SPEECH>
1571 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1572 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  By my troth, your town is troubled with</LINE>
1573 | <LINE>unruly boys.</LINE>
1574 | </SPEECH>
1575 | 
1576 | <SPEECH>
1577 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1578 | <LINE>Are you there, wife? you might have come before.</LINE>
1579 | </SPEECH>
1580 | 
1581 | <SPEECH>
1582 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
1583 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Your wife, sir knave! go get you from the door.</LINE>
1584 | </SPEECH>
1585 | 
1586 | <SPEECH>
1587 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1588 | <LINE>If you went in pain, master, this 'knave' would go sore.</LINE>
1589 | </SPEECH>
1590 | 
1591 | <SPEECH>
1592 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
1593 | <LINE>Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome: we would</LINE>
1594 | <LINE>fain have either.</LINE>
1595 | </SPEECH>
1596 | 
1597 | <SPEECH>
1598 | <SPEAKER>BALTHAZAR</SPEAKER>
1599 | <LINE>In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.</LINE>
1600 | </SPEECH>
1601 | 
1602 | <SPEECH>
1603 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1604 | <LINE>They stand at the door, master; bid them welcome hither.</LINE>
1605 | </SPEECH>
1606 | 
1607 | <SPEECH>
1608 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1609 | <LINE>There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in.</LINE>
1610 | </SPEECH>
1611 | 
1612 | <SPEECH>
1613 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1614 | <LINE>You would say so, master, if your garments were thin.</LINE>
1615 | <LINE>Your cake there is warm within; you stand here in the cold:</LINE>
1616 | <LINE>It would make a man mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold.</LINE>
1617 | </SPEECH>
1618 | 
1619 | <SPEECH>
1620 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1621 | <LINE>Go fetch me something: I'll break ope the gate.</LINE>
1622 | </SPEECH>
1623 | 
1624 | <SPEECH>
1625 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1626 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Break any breaking here, and I'll break your</LINE>
1627 | <LINE>knave's pate.</LINE>
1628 | </SPEECH>
1629 | 
1630 | <SPEECH>
1631 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1632 | <LINE>A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind,</LINE>
1633 | <LINE>Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.</LINE>
1634 | </SPEECH>
1635 | 
1636 | <SPEECH>
1637 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1638 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  It seems thou want'st breaking: out upon</LINE>
1639 | <LINE>thee, hind!</LINE>
1640 | </SPEECH>
1641 | 
1642 | <SPEECH>
1643 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1644 | <LINE>Here's too much 'out upon thee!' I pray thee,</LINE>
1645 | <LINE>let me in.</LINE>
1646 | </SPEECH>
1647 | 
1648 | <SPEECH>
1649 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1650 | <LINE><STAGEDIR>Within</STAGEDIR>  Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.</LINE>
1651 | </SPEECH>
1652 | 
1653 | <SPEECH>
1654 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1655 | <LINE>Well, I'll break in: go borrow me a crow.</LINE>
1656 | </SPEECH>
1657 | 
1658 | <SPEECH>
1659 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1660 | <LINE>A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?</LINE>
1661 | <LINE>For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather;</LINE>
1662 | <LINE>If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.</LINE>
1663 | </SPEECH>
1664 | 
1665 | <SPEECH>
1666 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1667 | <LINE>Go get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow.</LINE>
1668 | </SPEECH>
1669 | 
1670 | <SPEECH>
1671 | <SPEAKER>BALTHAZAR</SPEAKER>
1672 | <LINE>Have patience, sir; O, let it not be so!</LINE>
1673 | <LINE>Herein you war against your reputation</LINE>
1674 | <LINE>And draw within the compass of suspect</LINE>
1675 | <LINE>The unviolated honour of your wife.</LINE>
1676 | <LINE>Once this,--your long experience of her wisdom,</LINE>
1677 | <LINE>Her sober virtue, years and modesty,</LINE>
1678 | <LINE>Plead on her part some cause to you unknown:</LINE>
1679 | <LINE>And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse</LINE>
1680 | <LINE>Why at this time the doors are made against you.</LINE>
1681 | <LINE>Be ruled by me: depart in patience,</LINE>
1682 | <LINE>And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,</LINE>
1683 | <LINE>And about evening come yourself alone</LINE>
1684 | <LINE>To know the reason of this strange restraint.</LINE>
1685 | <LINE>If by strong hand you offer to break in</LINE>
1686 | <LINE>Now in the stirring passage of the day,</LINE>
1687 | <LINE>A vulgar comment will be made of it,</LINE>
1688 | <LINE>And that supposed by the common rout</LINE>
1689 | <LINE>Against your yet ungalled estimation</LINE>
1690 | <LINE>That may with foul intrusion enter in</LINE>
1691 | <LINE>And dwell upon your grave when you are dead;</LINE>
1692 | <LINE>For slander lives upon succession,</LINE>
1693 | <LINE>For ever housed where it gets possession.</LINE>
1694 | </SPEECH>
1695 | 
1696 | <SPEECH>
1697 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1698 | <LINE>You have prevailed: I will depart in quiet,</LINE>
1699 | <LINE>And, in despite of mirth, mean to be merry.</LINE>
1700 | <LINE>I know a wench of excellent discourse,</LINE>
1701 | <LINE>Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle:</LINE>
1702 | <LINE>There will we dine. This woman that I mean,</LINE>
1703 | <LINE>My wife--but, I protest, without desert--</LINE>
1704 | <LINE>Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal:</LINE>
1705 | <LINE>To her will we to dinner.</LINE>
1706 | <STAGEDIR>To Angelo</STAGEDIR>
1707 | <LINE>Get you home</LINE>
1708 | <LINE>And fetch the chain; by this I know 'tis made:</LINE>
1709 | <LINE>Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine;</LINE>
1710 | <LINE>For there's the house: that chain will I bestow--</LINE>
1711 | <LINE>Be it for nothing but to spite my wife--</LINE>
1712 | <LINE>Upon mine hostess there: good sir, make haste.</LINE>
1713 | <LINE>Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,</LINE>
1714 | <LINE>I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me.</LINE>
1715 | </SPEECH>
1716 | 
1717 | <SPEECH>
1718 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
1719 | <LINE>I'll meet you at that place some hour hence.</LINE>
1720 | </SPEECH>
1721 | 
1722 | <SPEECH>
1723 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
1724 | <LINE>Do so. This jest shall cost me some expense.</LINE>
1725 | </SPEECH>
1726 | 
1727 | 
1728 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
1729 | </SCENE>
1730 | 
1731 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  The same.</TITLE>
1732 | <STAGEDIR>Enter LUCIANA and ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
1733 | 
1734 | <SPEECH>
1735 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1736 | <LINE>And may it be that you have quite forgot</LINE>
1737 | <LINE>A husband's office? shall, Antipholus.</LINE>
1738 | <LINE>Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot?</LINE>
1739 | <LINE>Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?</LINE>
1740 | <LINE>If you did wed my sister for her wealth,</LINE>
1741 | <LINE>Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:</LINE>
1742 | <LINE>Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;</LINE>
1743 | <LINE>Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:</LINE>
1744 | <LINE>Let not my sister read it in your eye;</LINE>
1745 | <LINE>Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;</LINE>
1746 | <LINE>Look sweet, be fair, become disloyalty;</LINE>
1747 | <LINE>Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;</LINE>
1748 | <LINE>Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;</LINE>
1749 | <LINE>Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;</LINE>
1750 | <LINE>Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?</LINE>
1751 | <LINE>What simple thief brags of his own attaint?</LINE>
1752 | <LINE>'Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed</LINE>
1753 | <LINE>And let her read it in thy looks at board:</LINE>
1754 | <LINE>Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed;</LINE>
1755 | <LINE>Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.</LINE>
1756 | <LINE>Alas, poor women! make us but believe,</LINE>
1757 | <LINE>Being compact of credit, that you love us;</LINE>
1758 | <LINE>Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve;</LINE>
1759 | <LINE>We in your motion turn and you may move us.</LINE>
1760 | <LINE>Then, gentle brother, get you in again;</LINE>
1761 | <LINE>Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife:</LINE>
1762 | <LINE>'Tis holy sport to be a little vain,</LINE>
1763 | <LINE>When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife.</LINE>
1764 | </SPEECH>
1765 | 
1766 | <SPEECH>
1767 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1768 | <LINE>Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not,</LINE>
1769 | <LINE>Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine,--</LINE>
1770 | <LINE>Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not</LINE>
1771 | <LINE>Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine.</LINE>
1772 | <LINE>Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak;</LINE>
1773 | <LINE>Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit,</LINE>
1774 | <LINE>Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,</LINE>
1775 | <LINE>The folded meaning of your words' deceit.</LINE>
1776 | <LINE>Against my soul's pure truth why labour you</LINE>
1777 | <LINE>To make it wander in an unknown field?</LINE>
1778 | <LINE>Are you a god? would you create me new?</LINE>
1779 | <LINE>Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield.</LINE>
1780 | <LINE>But if that I am I, then well I know</LINE>
1781 | <LINE>Your weeping sister is no wife of mine,</LINE>
1782 | <LINE>Nor to her bed no homage do I owe</LINE>
1783 | <LINE>Far more, far more to you do I decline.</LINE>
1784 | <LINE>O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,</LINE>
1785 | <LINE>To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears:</LINE>
1786 | <LINE>Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote:</LINE>
1787 | <LINE>Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,</LINE>
1788 | <LINE>And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,</LINE>
1789 | <LINE>And in that glorious supposition think</LINE>
1790 | <LINE>He gains by death that hath such means to die:</LINE>
1791 | <LINE>Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!</LINE>
1792 | </SPEECH>
1793 | 
1794 | <SPEECH>
1795 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1796 | <LINE>What, are you mad, that you do reason so?</LINE>
1797 | </SPEECH>
1798 | 
1799 | <SPEECH>
1800 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1801 | <LINE>Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know.</LINE>
1802 | </SPEECH>
1803 | 
1804 | <SPEECH>
1805 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1806 | <LINE>It is a fault that springeth from your eye.</LINE>
1807 | </SPEECH>
1808 | 
1809 | <SPEECH>
1810 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1811 | <LINE>For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by.</LINE>
1812 | </SPEECH>
1813 | 
1814 | <SPEECH>
1815 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1816 | <LINE>Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight.</LINE>
1817 | </SPEECH>
1818 | 
1819 | <SPEECH>
1820 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1821 | <LINE>As good to wink, sweet love, as look on night.</LINE>
1822 | </SPEECH>
1823 | 
1824 | <SPEECH>
1825 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1826 | <LINE>Why call you me love? call my sister so.</LINE>
1827 | </SPEECH>
1828 | 
1829 | <SPEECH>
1830 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1831 | <LINE>Thy sister's sister.</LINE>
1832 | </SPEECH>
1833 | 
1834 | <SPEECH>
1835 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1836 | <LINE>That's my sister.</LINE>
1837 | </SPEECH>
1838 | 
1839 | <SPEECH>
1840 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1841 | <LINE>No;</LINE>
1842 | <LINE>It is thyself, mine own self's better part,</LINE>
1843 | <LINE>Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,</LINE>
1844 | <LINE>My food, my fortune and my sweet hope's aim,</LINE>
1845 | <LINE>My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim.</LINE>
1846 | </SPEECH>
1847 | 
1848 | <SPEECH>
1849 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1850 | <LINE>All this my sister is, or else should be.</LINE>
1851 | </SPEECH>
1852 | 
1853 | <SPEECH>
1854 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1855 | <LINE>Call thyself sister, sweet, for I am thee.</LINE>
1856 | <LINE>Thee will I love and with thee lead my life:</LINE>
1857 | <LINE>Thou hast no husband yet nor I no wife.</LINE>
1858 | <LINE>Give me thy hand.</LINE>
1859 | </SPEECH>
1860 | 
1861 | <SPEECH>
1862 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
1863 | <LINE>O, soft, air! hold you still:</LINE>
1864 | <LINE>I'll fetch my sister, to get her good will.</LINE>
1865 | </SPEECH>
1866 | 
1867 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
1868 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
1869 | 
1870 | <SPEECH>
1871 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1872 | <LINE>Why, how now, Dromio! where runn'st thou so fast?</LINE>
1873 | </SPEECH>
1874 | 
1875 | <SPEECH>
1876 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1877 | <LINE>Do you know me, sir? am I Dromio? am I your man?</LINE>
1878 | <LINE>am I myself?</LINE>
1879 | </SPEECH>
1880 | 
1881 | <SPEECH>
1882 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1883 | <LINE>Thou art Dromio, thou art my man, thou art thyself.</LINE>
1884 | </SPEECH>
1885 | 
1886 | <SPEECH>
1887 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1888 | <LINE>I am an ass, I am a woman's man and besides myself.</LINE>
1889 | </SPEECH>
1890 | 
1891 | <SPEECH>
1892 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1893 | <LINE>Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman; one</LINE>
1894 | <LINE>that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me.</LINE>
1895 | </SPEECH>
1896 | 
1897 | <SPEECH>
1898 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1899 | <LINE>What claim lays she to thee?</LINE>
1900 | </SPEECH>
1901 | 
1902 | <SPEECH>
1903 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1904 | <LINE>Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your</LINE>
1905 | <LINE>horse; and she would have me as a beast: not that, I</LINE>
1906 | <LINE>being a beast, she would have me; but that she,</LINE>
1907 | <LINE>being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me.</LINE>
1908 | </SPEECH>
1909 | 
1910 | <SPEECH>
1911 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1912 | <LINE>What is she?</LINE>
1913 | </SPEECH>
1914 | 
1915 | <SPEECH>
1916 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1917 | <LINE>A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may</LINE>
1918 | <LINE>not speak of without he say 'Sir-reverence.' I have</LINE>
1919 | <LINE>but lean luck in the match, and yet is she a</LINE>
1920 | <LINE>wondrous fat marriage.</LINE>
1921 | </SPEECH>
1922 | 
1923 | <SPEECH>
1924 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1925 | <LINE>How dost thou mean a fat marriage?</LINE>
1926 | </SPEECH>
1927 | 
1928 | <SPEECH>
1929 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1930 | <LINE>Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease;</LINE>
1931 | <LINE>and I know not what use to put her to but to make a</LINE>
1932 | <LINE>lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I</LINE>
1933 | <LINE>warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a</LINE>
1934 | <LINE>Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday,</LINE>
1935 | <LINE>she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.</LINE>
1936 | </SPEECH>
1937 | 
1938 | <SPEECH>
1939 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1940 | <LINE>What complexion is she of?</LINE>
1941 | </SPEECH>
1942 | 
1943 | <SPEECH>
1944 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1945 | <LINE>Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing half so</LINE>
1946 | <LINE>clean kept: for why, she sweats; a man may go over</LINE>
1947 | <LINE>shoes in the grime of it.</LINE>
1948 | </SPEECH>
1949 | 
1950 | <SPEECH>
1951 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1952 | <LINE>That's a fault that water will mend.</LINE>
1953 | </SPEECH>
1954 | 
1955 | <SPEECH>
1956 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1957 | <LINE>No, sir, 'tis in grain; Noah's flood could not do it.</LINE>
1958 | </SPEECH>
1959 | 
1960 | <SPEECH>
1961 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1962 | <LINE>What's her name?</LINE>
1963 | </SPEECH>
1964 | 
1965 | <SPEECH>
1966 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1967 | <LINE>Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters, that's</LINE>
1968 | <LINE>an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from</LINE>
1969 | <LINE>hip to hip.</LINE>
1970 | </SPEECH>
1971 | 
1972 | <SPEECH>
1973 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1974 | <LINE>Then she bears some breadth?</LINE>
1975 | </SPEECH>
1976 | 
1977 | <SPEECH>
1978 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1979 | <LINE>No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:</LINE>
1980 | <LINE>she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out</LINE>
1981 | <LINE>countries in her.</LINE>
1982 | </SPEECH>
1983 | 
1984 | <SPEECH>
1985 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1986 | <LINE>In what part of her body stands Ireland?</LINE>
1987 | </SPEECH>
1988 | 
1989 | <SPEECH>
1990 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1991 | <LINE>Marry, in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs.</LINE>
1992 | </SPEECH>
1993 | 
1994 | <SPEECH>
1995 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
1996 | <LINE>Where Scotland?</LINE>
1997 | </SPEECH>
1998 | 
1999 | <SPEECH>
2000 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2001 | <LINE>I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm of the hand.</LINE>
2002 | </SPEECH>
2003 | 
2004 | <SPEECH>
2005 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2006 | <LINE>Where France?</LINE>
2007 | </SPEECH>
2008 | 
2009 | <SPEECH>
2010 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2011 | <LINE>In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war</LINE>
2012 | <LINE>against her heir.</LINE>
2013 | </SPEECH>
2014 | 
2015 | <SPEECH>
2016 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2017 | <LINE>Where England?</LINE>
2018 | </SPEECH>
2019 | 
2020 | <SPEECH>
2021 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2022 | <LINE>I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no</LINE>
2023 | <LINE>whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin,</LINE>
2024 | <LINE>by the salt rheum that ran between France and it.</LINE>
2025 | </SPEECH>
2026 | 
2027 | <SPEECH>
2028 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2029 | <LINE>Where Spain?</LINE>
2030 | </SPEECH>
2031 | 
2032 | <SPEECH>
2033 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2034 | <LINE>Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath.</LINE>
2035 | </SPEECH>
2036 | 
2037 | <SPEECH>
2038 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2039 | <LINE>Where America, the Indies?</LINE>
2040 | </SPEECH>
2041 | 
2042 | <SPEECH>
2043 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2044 | <LINE>Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with</LINE>
2045 | <LINE>rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich</LINE>
2046 | <LINE>aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole</LINE>
2047 | <LINE>armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.</LINE>
2048 | </SPEECH>
2049 | 
2050 | <SPEECH>
2051 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2052 | <LINE>Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?</LINE>
2053 | </SPEECH>
2054 | 
2055 | <SPEECH>
2056 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2057 | <LINE>Oh, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude, this</LINE>
2058 | <LINE>drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, call'd me</LINE>
2059 | <LINE>Dromio; swore I was assured to her; told me what</LINE>
2060 | <LINE>privy marks I had about me, as, the mark of my</LINE>
2061 | <LINE>shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my</LINE>
2062 | <LINE>left arm, that I amazed ran from her as a witch:</LINE>
2063 | <LINE>And, I think, if my breast had not been made of</LINE>
2064 | <LINE>faith and my heart of steel,</LINE>
2065 | <LINE>She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made</LINE>
2066 | <LINE>me turn i' the wheel.</LINE>
2067 | </SPEECH>
2068 | 
2069 | <SPEECH>
2070 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2071 | <LINE>Go hie thee presently, post to the road:</LINE>
2072 | <LINE>An if the wind blow any way from shore,</LINE>
2073 | <LINE>I will not harbour in this town to-night:</LINE>
2074 | <LINE>If any bark put forth, come to the mart,</LINE>
2075 | <LINE>Where I will walk till thou return to me.</LINE>
2076 | <LINE>If every one knows us and we know none,</LINE>
2077 | <LINE>'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.</LINE>
2078 | </SPEECH>
2079 | 
2080 | <SPEECH>
2081 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2082 | <LINE>As from a bear a man would run for life,</LINE>
2083 | <LINE>So fly I from her that would be my wife.</LINE>
2084 | </SPEECH>
2085 | 
2086 | 
2087 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
2088 | 
2089 | <SPEECH>
2090 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2091 | <LINE>There's none but witches do inhabit here;</LINE>
2092 | <LINE>And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence.</LINE>
2093 | <LINE>She that doth call me husband, even my soul</LINE>
2094 | <LINE>Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,</LINE>
2095 | <LINE>Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace,</LINE>
2096 | <LINE>Of such enchanting presence and discourse,</LINE>
2097 | <LINE>Hath almost made me traitor to myself:</LINE>
2098 | <LINE>But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,</LINE>
2099 | <LINE>I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song.</LINE>
2100 | </SPEECH>
2101 | 
2102 | 
2103 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANGELO with the chain</STAGEDIR>
2104 | 
2105 | <SPEECH>
2106 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2107 | <LINE>Master Antipholus,--</LINE>
2108 | </SPEECH>
2109 | 
2110 | <SPEECH>
2111 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2112 | <LINE>Ay, that's my name.</LINE>
2113 | </SPEECH>
2114 | 
2115 | <SPEECH>
2116 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2117 | <LINE>I know it well, sir, lo, here is the chain.</LINE>
2118 | <LINE>I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine:</LINE>
2119 | <LINE>The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long.</LINE>
2120 | </SPEECH>
2121 | 
2122 | <SPEECH>
2123 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2124 | <LINE>What is your will that I shall do with this?</LINE>
2125 | </SPEECH>
2126 | 
2127 | <SPEECH>
2128 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2129 | <LINE>What please yourself, sir: I have made it for you.</LINE>
2130 | </SPEECH>
2131 | 
2132 | <SPEECH>
2133 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2134 | <LINE>Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not.</LINE>
2135 | </SPEECH>
2136 | 
2137 | <SPEECH>
2138 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2139 | <LINE>Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.</LINE>
2140 | <LINE>Go home with it and please your wife withal;</LINE>
2141 | <LINE>And soon at supper-time I'll visit you</LINE>
2142 | <LINE>And then receive my money for the chain.</LINE>
2143 | </SPEECH>
2144 | 
2145 | <SPEECH>
2146 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2147 | <LINE>I pray you, sir, receive the money now,</LINE>
2148 | <LINE>For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more.</LINE>
2149 | </SPEECH>
2150 | 
2151 | <SPEECH>
2152 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2153 | <LINE>You are a merry man, sir: fare you well.</LINE>
2154 | </SPEECH>
2155 | 
2156 | 
2157 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
2158 | 
2159 | <SPEECH>
2160 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2161 | <LINE>What I should think of this, I cannot tell:</LINE>
2162 | <LINE>But this I think, there's no man is so vain</LINE>
2163 | <LINE>That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain.</LINE>
2164 | <LINE>I see a man here needs not live by shifts,</LINE>
2165 | <LINE>When in the streets he meets such golden gifts.</LINE>
2166 | <LINE>I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay</LINE>
2167 | <LINE>If any ship put out, then straight away.</LINE>
2168 | </SPEECH>
2169 | 
2170 | 
2171 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
2172 | </SCENE>
2173 | 
2174 | </ACT>
2175 | 
2176 | <ACT><TITLE>ACT IV</TITLE>
2177 | 
2178 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  A public place.</TITLE>
2179 | <STAGEDIR>Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer</STAGEDIR>
2180 | 
2181 | <SPEECH>
2182 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
2183 | <LINE>You know since Pentecost the sum is due,</LINE>
2184 | <LINE>And since I have not much importuned you;</LINE>
2185 | <LINE>Nor now I had not, but that I am bound</LINE>
2186 | <LINE>To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage:</LINE>
2187 | <LINE>Therefore make present satisfaction,</LINE>
2188 | <LINE>Or I'll attach you by this officer.</LINE>
2189 | </SPEECH>
2190 | 
2191 | <SPEECH>
2192 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2193 | <LINE>Even just the sum that I do owe to you</LINE>
2194 | <LINE>Is growing to me by Antipholus,</LINE>
2195 | <LINE>And in the instant that I met with you</LINE>
2196 | <LINE>He had of me a chain: at five o'clock</LINE>
2197 | <LINE>I shall receive the money for the same.</LINE>
2198 | <LINE>Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,</LINE>
2199 | <LINE>I will discharge my bond and thank you too.</LINE>
2200 | </SPEECH>
2201 | 
2202 | 
2203 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus
2204 | from the courtezan's</STAGEDIR>
2205 | 
2206 | <SPEECH>
2207 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
2208 | <LINE>That labour may you save: see where he comes.</LINE>
2209 | </SPEECH>
2210 | 
2211 | <SPEECH>
2212 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2213 | <LINE>While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou</LINE>
2214 | <LINE>And buy a rope's end: that will I bestow</LINE>
2215 | <LINE>Among my wife and her confederates,</LINE>
2216 | <LINE>For locking me out of my doors by day.</LINE>
2217 | <LINE>But, soft! I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone;</LINE>
2218 | <LINE>Buy thou a rope and bring it home to me.</LINE>
2219 | </SPEECH>
2220 | 
2221 | <SPEECH>
2222 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2223 | <LINE>I buy a thousand pound a year: I buy a rope.</LINE>
2224 | </SPEECH>
2225 | 
2226 | 
2227 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
2228 | 
2229 | <SPEECH>
2230 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2231 | <LINE>A man is well holp up that trusts to you:</LINE>
2232 | <LINE>I promised your presence and the chain;</LINE>
2233 | <LINE>But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me.</LINE>
2234 | <LINE>Belike you thought our love would last too long,</LINE>
2235 | <LINE>If it were chain'd together, and therefore came not.</LINE>
2236 | </SPEECH>
2237 | 
2238 | <SPEECH>
2239 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2240 | <LINE>Saving your merry humour, here's the note</LINE>
2241 | <LINE>How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat,</LINE>
2242 | <LINE>The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion.</LINE>
2243 | <LINE>Which doth amount to three odd ducats more</LINE>
2244 | <LINE>Than I stand debted to this gentleman:</LINE>
2245 | <LINE>I pray you, see him presently discharged,</LINE>
2246 | <LINE>For he is bound to sea and stays but for it.</LINE>
2247 | </SPEECH>
2248 | 
2249 | <SPEECH>
2250 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2251 | <LINE>I am not furnish'd with the present money;</LINE>
2252 | <LINE>Besides, I have some business in the town.</LINE>
2253 | <LINE>Good signior, take the stranger to my house</LINE>
2254 | <LINE>And with you take the chain and bid my wife</LINE>
2255 | <LINE>Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof:</LINE>
2256 | <LINE>Perchance I will be there as soon as you.</LINE>
2257 | </SPEECH>
2258 | 
2259 | <SPEECH>
2260 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2261 | <LINE>Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?</LINE>
2262 | </SPEECH>
2263 | 
2264 | <SPEECH>
2265 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2266 | <LINE>No; bear it with you, lest I come not time enough.</LINE>
2267 | </SPEECH>
2268 | 
2269 | <SPEECH>
2270 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2271 | <LINE>Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you?</LINE>
2272 | </SPEECH>
2273 | 
2274 | <SPEECH>
2275 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2276 | <LINE>An if I have not, sir, I hope you have;</LINE>
2277 | <LINE>Or else you may return without your money.</LINE>
2278 | </SPEECH>
2279 | 
2280 | <SPEECH>
2281 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2282 | <LINE>Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain:</LINE>
2283 | <LINE>Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman,</LINE>
2284 | <LINE>And I, to blame, have held him here too long.</LINE>
2285 | </SPEECH>
2286 | 
2287 | <SPEECH>
2288 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2289 | <LINE>Good Lord! you use this dalliance to excuse</LINE>
2290 | <LINE>Your breach of promise to the Porpentine.</LINE>
2291 | <LINE>I should have chid you for not bringing it,</LINE>
2292 | <LINE>But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.</LINE>
2293 | </SPEECH>
2294 | 
2295 | <SPEECH>
2296 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
2297 | <LINE>The hour steals on; I pray you, sir, dispatch.</LINE>
2298 | </SPEECH>
2299 | 
2300 | <SPEECH>
2301 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2302 | <LINE>You hear how he importunes me;--the chain!</LINE>
2303 | </SPEECH>
2304 | 
2305 | <SPEECH>
2306 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2307 | <LINE>Why, give it to my wife and fetch your money.</LINE>
2308 | </SPEECH>
2309 | 
2310 | <SPEECH>
2311 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2312 | <LINE>Come, come, you know I gave it you even now.</LINE>
2313 | <LINE>Either send the chain or send me by some token.</LINE>
2314 | </SPEECH>
2315 | 
2316 | <SPEECH>
2317 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2318 | <LINE>Fie, now you run this humour out of breath,</LINE>
2319 | <LINE>where's the chain? I pray you, let me see it.</LINE>
2320 | </SPEECH>
2321 | 
2322 | <SPEECH>
2323 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
2324 | <LINE>My business cannot brook this dalliance.</LINE>
2325 | <LINE>Good sir, say whether you'll answer me or no:</LINE>
2326 | <LINE>If not, I'll leave him to the officer.</LINE>
2327 | </SPEECH>
2328 | 
2329 | <SPEECH>
2330 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2331 | <LINE>I answer you! what should I answer you?</LINE>
2332 | </SPEECH>
2333 | 
2334 | <SPEECH>
2335 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2336 | <LINE>The money that you owe me for the chain.</LINE>
2337 | </SPEECH>
2338 | 
2339 | <SPEECH>
2340 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2341 | <LINE>I owe you none till I receive the chain.</LINE>
2342 | </SPEECH>
2343 | 
2344 | <SPEECH>
2345 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2346 | <LINE>You know I gave it you half an hour since.</LINE>
2347 | </SPEECH>
2348 | 
2349 | <SPEECH>
2350 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2351 | <LINE>You gave me none: you wrong me much to say so.</LINE>
2352 | </SPEECH>
2353 | 
2354 | <SPEECH>
2355 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2356 | <LINE>You wrong me more, sir, in denying it:</LINE>
2357 | <LINE>Consider how it stands upon my credit.</LINE>
2358 | </SPEECH>
2359 | 
2360 | <SPEECH>
2361 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
2362 | <LINE>Well, officer, arrest him at my suit.</LINE>
2363 | </SPEECH>
2364 | 
2365 | <SPEECH>
2366 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
2367 | <LINE>I do; and charge you in the duke's name to obey me.</LINE>
2368 | </SPEECH>
2369 | 
2370 | <SPEECH>
2371 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2372 | <LINE>This touches me in reputation.</LINE>
2373 | <LINE>Either consent to pay this sum for me</LINE>
2374 | <LINE>Or I attach you by this officer.</LINE>
2375 | </SPEECH>
2376 | 
2377 | <SPEECH>
2378 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2379 | <LINE>Consent to pay thee that I never had!</LINE>
2380 | <LINE>Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest.</LINE>
2381 | </SPEECH>
2382 | 
2383 | <SPEECH>
2384 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2385 | <LINE>Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer,</LINE>
2386 | <LINE>I would not spare my brother in this case,</LINE>
2387 | <LINE>If he should scorn me so apparently.</LINE>
2388 | </SPEECH>
2389 | 
2390 | <SPEECH>
2391 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
2392 | <LINE>I do arrest you, sir: you hear the suit.</LINE>
2393 | </SPEECH>
2394 | 
2395 | <SPEECH>
2396 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2397 | <LINE>I do obey thee till I give thee bail.</LINE>
2398 | <LINE>But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear</LINE>
2399 | <LINE>As all the metal in your shop will answer.</LINE>
2400 | </SPEECH>
2401 | 
2402 | <SPEECH>
2403 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
2404 | <LINE>Sir, sir, I will have law in Ephesus,</LINE>
2405 | <LINE>To your notorious shame; I doubt it not.</LINE>
2406 | </SPEECH>
2407 | 
2408 | 
2409 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO of Syracuse, from the bay</STAGEDIR>
2410 | 
2411 | <SPEECH>
2412 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2413 | <LINE>Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum</LINE>
2414 | <LINE>That stays but till her owner comes aboard,</LINE>
2415 | <LINE>And then, sir, she bears away. Our fraughtage, sir,</LINE>
2416 | <LINE>I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought</LINE>
2417 | <LINE>The oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae.</LINE>
2418 | <LINE>The ship is in her trim; the merry wind</LINE>
2419 | <LINE>Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all</LINE>
2420 | <LINE>But for their owner, master, and yourself.</LINE>
2421 | </SPEECH>
2422 | 
2423 | <SPEECH>
2424 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2425 | <LINE>How now! a madman! Why, thou peevish sheep,</LINE>
2426 | <LINE>What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?</LINE>
2427 | </SPEECH>
2428 | 
2429 | <SPEECH>
2430 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2431 | <LINE>A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.</LINE>
2432 | </SPEECH>
2433 | 
2434 | <SPEECH>
2435 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2436 | <LINE>Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope;</LINE>
2437 | <LINE>And told thee to what purpose and what end.</LINE>
2438 | </SPEECH>
2439 | 
2440 | <SPEECH>
2441 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2442 | <LINE>You sent me for a rope's end as soon:</LINE>
2443 | <LINE>You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.</LINE>
2444 | </SPEECH>
2445 | 
2446 | <SPEECH>
2447 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2448 | <LINE>I will debate this matter at more leisure</LINE>
2449 | <LINE>And teach your ears to list me with more heed.</LINE>
2450 | <LINE>To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:</LINE>
2451 | <LINE>Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk</LINE>
2452 | <LINE>That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry,</LINE>
2453 | <LINE>There is a purse of ducats; let her send it:</LINE>
2454 | <LINE>Tell her I am arrested in the street</LINE>
2455 | <LINE>And that shall bail me; hie thee, slave, be gone!</LINE>
2456 | <LINE>On, officer, to prison till it come.</LINE>
2457 | </SPEECH>
2458 | 
2459 | 
2460 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt Second Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and
2461 | Antipholus of Ephesus</STAGEDIR>
2462 | 
2463 | <SPEECH>
2464 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2465 | <LINE>To Adriana! that is where we dined,</LINE>
2466 | <LINE>Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband:</LINE>
2467 | <LINE>She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.</LINE>
2468 | <LINE>Thither I must, although against my will,</LINE>
2469 | <LINE>For servants must their masters' minds fulfil.</LINE>
2470 | </SPEECH>
2471 | 
2472 | 
2473 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
2474 | </SCENE>
2475 | 
2476 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.</TITLE>
2477 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA</STAGEDIR>
2478 | 
2479 | <SPEECH>
2480 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2481 | <LINE>Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?</LINE>
2482 | <LINE>Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye</LINE>
2483 | <LINE>That he did plead in earnest? yea or no?</LINE>
2484 | <LINE>Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?</LINE>
2485 | <LINE>What observation madest thou in this case</LINE>
2486 | <LINE>Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?</LINE>
2487 | </SPEECH>
2488 | 
2489 | <SPEECH>
2490 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2491 | <LINE>First he denied you had in him no right.</LINE>
2492 | </SPEECH>
2493 | 
2494 | <SPEECH>
2495 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2496 | <LINE>He meant he did me none; the more my spite.</LINE>
2497 | </SPEECH>
2498 | 
2499 | <SPEECH>
2500 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2501 | <LINE>Then swore he that he was a stranger here.</LINE>
2502 | </SPEECH>
2503 | 
2504 | <SPEECH>
2505 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2506 | <LINE>And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.</LINE>
2507 | </SPEECH>
2508 | 
2509 | <SPEECH>
2510 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2511 | <LINE>Then pleaded I for you.</LINE>
2512 | </SPEECH>
2513 | 
2514 | <SPEECH>
2515 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2516 | <LINE>And what said he?</LINE>
2517 | </SPEECH>
2518 | 
2519 | <SPEECH>
2520 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2521 | <LINE>That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me.</LINE>
2522 | </SPEECH>
2523 | 
2524 | <SPEECH>
2525 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2526 | <LINE>With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?</LINE>
2527 | </SPEECH>
2528 | 
2529 | <SPEECH>
2530 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2531 | <LINE>With words that in an honest suit might move.</LINE>
2532 | <LINE>First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.</LINE>
2533 | </SPEECH>
2534 | 
2535 | <SPEECH>
2536 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2537 | <LINE>Didst speak him fair?</LINE>
2538 | </SPEECH>
2539 | 
2540 | <SPEECH>
2541 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2542 | <LINE>Have patience, I beseech.</LINE>
2543 | </SPEECH>
2544 | 
2545 | <SPEECH>
2546 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2547 | <LINE>I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;</LINE>
2548 | <LINE>My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.</LINE>
2549 | <LINE>He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,</LINE>
2550 | <LINE>Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;</LINE>
2551 | <LINE>Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;</LINE>
2552 | <LINE>Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.</LINE>
2553 | </SPEECH>
2554 | 
2555 | <SPEECH>
2556 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2557 | <LINE>Who would be jealous then of such a one?</LINE>
2558 | <LINE>No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone.</LINE>
2559 | </SPEECH>
2560 | 
2561 | <SPEECH>
2562 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2563 | <LINE>Ah, but I think him better than I say,</LINE>
2564 | <LINE>And yet would herein others' eyes were worse.</LINE>
2565 | <LINE>Far from her nest the lapwing cries away:</LINE>
2566 | <LINE>My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.</LINE>
2567 | </SPEECH>
2568 | 
2569 | 
2570 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
2571 | 
2572 | <SPEECH>
2573 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2574 | <LINE>Here! go; the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste.</LINE>
2575 | </SPEECH>
2576 | 
2577 | <SPEECH>
2578 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
2579 | <LINE>How hast thou lost thy breath?</LINE>
2580 | </SPEECH>
2581 | 
2582 | <SPEECH>
2583 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2584 | <LINE>By running fast.</LINE>
2585 | </SPEECH>
2586 | 
2587 | <SPEECH>
2588 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2589 | <LINE>Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well?</LINE>
2590 | </SPEECH>
2591 | 
2592 | <SPEECH>
2593 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2594 | <LINE>No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell.</LINE>
2595 | <LINE>A devil in an everlasting garment hath him;</LINE>
2596 | <LINE>One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel;</LINE>
2597 | <LINE>A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough;</LINE>
2598 | <LINE>A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff;</LINE>
2599 | <LINE>A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that</LINE>
2600 | <LINE>countermands</LINE>
2601 | <LINE>The passages of alleys, creeks and narrow lands;</LINE>
2602 | <LINE>A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well;</LINE>
2603 | <LINE>One that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell.</LINE>
2604 | </SPEECH>
2605 | 
2606 | <SPEECH>
2607 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2608 | <LINE>Why, man, what is the matter?</LINE>
2609 | </SPEECH>
2610 | 
2611 | <SPEECH>
2612 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2613 | <LINE>I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case.</LINE>
2614 | </SPEECH>
2615 | 
2616 | <SPEECH>
2617 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2618 | <LINE>What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.</LINE>
2619 | </SPEECH>
2620 | 
2621 | <SPEECH>
2622 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2623 | <LINE>I know not at whose suit he is arrested well;</LINE>
2624 | <LINE>But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell.</LINE>
2625 | <LINE>Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk?</LINE>
2626 | </SPEECH>
2627 | 
2628 | <SPEECH>
2629 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2630 | <LINE>Go fetch it, sister.</LINE>
2631 | <STAGEDIR>Exit Luciana</STAGEDIR>
2632 | <LINE>This I wonder at,</LINE>
2633 | <LINE>That he, unknown to me, should be in debt.</LINE>
2634 | <LINE>Tell me, was he arrested on a band?</LINE>
2635 | </SPEECH>
2636 | 
2637 | <SPEECH>
2638 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2639 | <LINE>Not on a band, but on a stronger thing;</LINE>
2640 | <LINE>A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring?</LINE>
2641 | </SPEECH>
2642 | 
2643 | <SPEECH>
2644 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2645 | <LINE>What, the chain?</LINE>
2646 | </SPEECH>
2647 | 
2648 | <SPEECH>
2649 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2650 | <LINE>No, no, the bell: 'tis time that I were gone:</LINE>
2651 | <LINE>It was two ere I left him, and now the clock</LINE>
2652 | <LINE>strikes one.</LINE>
2653 | </SPEECH>
2654 | 
2655 | <SPEECH>
2656 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2657 | <LINE>The hours come back! that did I never hear.</LINE>
2658 | </SPEECH>
2659 | 
2660 | <SPEECH>
2661 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2662 | <LINE>O, yes; if any hour meet a sergeant, a' turns back for</LINE>
2663 | <LINE>very fear.</LINE>
2664 | </SPEECH>
2665 | 
2666 | <SPEECH>
2667 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2668 | <LINE>As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason!</LINE>
2669 | </SPEECH>
2670 | 
2671 | <SPEECH>
2672 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2673 | <LINE>Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's</LINE>
2674 | <LINE>worth, to season.</LINE>
2675 | <LINE>Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say</LINE>
2676 | <LINE>That Time comes stealing on by night and day?</LINE>
2677 | <LINE>If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,</LINE>
2678 | <LINE>Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?</LINE>
2679 | </SPEECH>
2680 | 
2681 | 
2682 | <STAGEDIR>Re-enter LUCIANA with a purse</STAGEDIR>
2683 | 
2684 | <SPEECH>
2685 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
2686 | <LINE>Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it straight;</LINE>
2687 | <LINE>And bring thy master home immediately.</LINE>
2688 | <LINE>Come, sister: I am press'd down with conceit--</LINE>
2689 | <LINE>Conceit, my comfort and my injury.</LINE>
2690 | </SPEECH>
2691 | 
2692 | 
2693 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
2694 | </SCENE>
2695 | 
2696 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III.  A public place.</TITLE>
2697 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
2698 | 
2699 | <SPEECH>
2700 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2701 | <LINE>There's not a man I meet but doth salute me</LINE>
2702 | <LINE>As if I were their well-acquainted friend;</LINE>
2703 | <LINE>And every one doth call me by my name.</LINE>
2704 | <LINE>Some tender money to me; some invite me;</LINE>
2705 | <LINE>Some other give me thanks for kindnesses;</LINE>
2706 | <LINE>Some offer me commodities to buy:</LINE>
2707 | <LINE>Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop</LINE>
2708 | <LINE>And show'd me silks that he had bought for me,</LINE>
2709 | <LINE>And therewithal took measure of my body.</LINE>
2710 | <LINE>Sure, these are but imaginary wiles</LINE>
2711 | <LINE>And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.</LINE>
2712 | </SPEECH>
2713 | 
2714 | 
2715 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</STAGEDIR>
2716 | 
2717 | <SPEECH>
2718 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2719 | <LINE>Master, here's the gold you sent me for. What, have</LINE>
2720 | <LINE>you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?</LINE>
2721 | </SPEECH>
2722 | 
2723 | <SPEECH>
2724 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2725 | <LINE>What gold is this? what Adam dost thou mean?</LINE>
2726 | </SPEECH>
2727 | 
2728 | <SPEECH>
2729 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2730 | <LINE>Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam</LINE>
2731 | <LINE>that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's</LINE>
2732 | <LINE>skin that was killed for the Prodigal; he that came</LINE>
2733 | <LINE>behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you</LINE>
2734 | <LINE>forsake your liberty.</LINE>
2735 | </SPEECH>
2736 | 
2737 | <SPEECH>
2738 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2739 | <LINE>I understand thee not.</LINE>
2740 | </SPEECH>
2741 | 
2742 | <SPEECH>
2743 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2744 | <LINE>No? why, 'tis a plain case: he that went, like a</LINE>
2745 | <LINE>bass-viol, in a case of leather; the man, sir,</LINE>
2746 | <LINE>that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a sob</LINE>
2747 | <LINE>and 'rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed</LINE>
2748 | <LINE>men and gives them suits of durance; he that sets up</LINE>
2749 | <LINE>his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a</LINE>
2750 | <LINE>morris-pike.</LINE>
2751 | </SPEECH>
2752 | 
2753 | <SPEECH>
2754 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2755 | <LINE>What, thou meanest an officer?</LINE>
2756 | </SPEECH>
2757 | 
2758 | <SPEECH>
2759 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2760 | <LINE>Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band, he that brings</LINE>
2761 | <LINE>any man to answer it that breaks his band; one that</LINE>
2762 | <LINE>thinks a man always going to bed, and says, 'God</LINE>
2763 | <LINE>give you good rest!'</LINE>
2764 | </SPEECH>
2765 | 
2766 | <SPEECH>
2767 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2768 | <LINE>Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Is there any</LINE>
2769 | </SPEECH>
2770 | 
2771 | <SPEECH>
2772 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2773 | <LINE>Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the</LINE>
2774 | <LINE>bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were</LINE>
2775 | <LINE>you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy</LINE>
2776 | <LINE>Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to</LINE>
2777 | <LINE>deliver you.</LINE>
2778 | </SPEECH>
2779 | 
2780 | <SPEECH>
2781 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2782 | <LINE>The fellow is distract, and so am I;</LINE>
2783 | <LINE>And here we wander in illusions:</LINE>
2784 | <LINE>Some blessed power deliver us from hence!</LINE>
2785 | </SPEECH>
2786 | 
2787 | 
2788 | <STAGEDIR>Enter a Courtezan</STAGEDIR>
2789 | 
2790 | <SPEECH>
2791 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
2792 | <LINE>Well met, well met, Master Antipholus.</LINE>
2793 | <LINE>I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now:</LINE>
2794 | <LINE>Is that the chain you promised me to-day?</LINE>
2795 | </SPEECH>
2796 | 
2797 | <SPEECH>
2798 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2799 | <LINE>Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not.</LINE>
2800 | </SPEECH>
2801 | 
2802 | <SPEECH>
2803 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2804 | <LINE>Master, is this Mistress Satan?</LINE>
2805 | </SPEECH>
2806 | 
2807 | <SPEECH>
2808 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2809 | <LINE>It is the devil.</LINE>
2810 | </SPEECH>
2811 | 
2812 | <SPEECH>
2813 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2814 | <LINE>Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's dam; and here</LINE>
2815 | <LINE>she comes in the habit of a light wench: and thereof</LINE>
2816 | <LINE>comes that the wenches say 'God damn me;' that's as</LINE>
2817 | <LINE>much to say 'God make me a light wench.' It is</LINE>
2818 | <LINE>written, they appear to men like angels of light:</LINE>
2819 | <LINE>light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn;</LINE>
2820 | <LINE>ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her.</LINE>
2821 | </SPEECH>
2822 | 
2823 | <SPEECH>
2824 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
2825 | <LINE>Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir.</LINE>
2826 | <LINE>Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here?</LINE>
2827 | </SPEECH>
2828 | 
2829 | <SPEECH>
2830 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2831 | <LINE>Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a</LINE>
2832 | <LINE>long spoon.</LINE>
2833 | </SPEECH>
2834 | 
2835 | <SPEECH>
2836 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2837 | <LINE>Why, Dromio?</LINE>
2838 | </SPEECH>
2839 | 
2840 | <SPEECH>
2841 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2842 | <LINE>Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with</LINE>
2843 | <LINE>the devil.</LINE>
2844 | </SPEECH>
2845 | 
2846 | <SPEECH>
2847 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2848 | <LINE>Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me of supping?</LINE>
2849 | <LINE>Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress:</LINE>
2850 | <LINE>I conjure thee to leave me and be gone.</LINE>
2851 | </SPEECH>
2852 | 
2853 | <SPEECH>
2854 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
2855 | <LINE>Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,</LINE>
2856 | <LINE>Or, for my diamond, the chain you promised,</LINE>
2857 | <LINE>And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you.</LINE>
2858 | </SPEECH>
2859 | 
2860 | <SPEECH>
2861 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2862 | <LINE>Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail,</LINE>
2863 | <LINE>A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,</LINE>
2864 | <LINE>A nut, a cherry-stone;</LINE>
2865 | <LINE>But she, more covetous, would have a chain.</LINE>
2866 | <LINE>Master, be wise: an if you give it her,</LINE>
2867 | <LINE>The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it.</LINE>
2868 | </SPEECH>
2869 | 
2870 | <SPEECH>
2871 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
2872 | <LINE>I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain:</LINE>
2873 | <LINE>I hope you do not mean to cheat me so.</LINE>
2874 | </SPEECH>
2875 | 
2876 | <SPEECH>
2877 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2878 | <LINE>Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, let us go.</LINE>
2879 | </SPEECH>
2880 | 
2881 | <SPEECH>
2882 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
2883 | <LINE>'Fly pride,' says the peacock: mistress, that you know.</LINE>
2884 | </SPEECH>
2885 | 
2886 | 
2887 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
2888 | 
2889 | <SPEECH>
2890 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
2891 | <LINE>Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,</LINE>
2892 | <LINE>Else would he never so demean himself.</LINE>
2893 | <LINE>A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,</LINE>
2894 | <LINE>And for the same he promised me a chain:</LINE>
2895 | <LINE>Both one and other he denies me now.</LINE>
2896 | <LINE>The reason that I gather he is mad,</LINE>
2897 | <LINE>Besides this present instance of his rage,</LINE>
2898 | <LINE>Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner,</LINE>
2899 | <LINE>Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.</LINE>
2900 | <LINE>Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,</LINE>
2901 | <LINE>On purpose shut the doors against his way.</LINE>
2902 | <LINE>My way is now to hie home to his house,</LINE>
2903 | <LINE>And tell his wife that, being lunatic,</LINE>
2904 | <LINE>He rush'd into my house and took perforce</LINE>
2905 | <LINE>My ring away. This course I fittest choose;</LINE>
2906 | <LINE>For forty ducats is too much to lose.</LINE>
2907 | </SPEECH>
2908 | 
2909 | 
2910 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
2911 | </SCENE>
2912 | 
2913 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE IV.  A street.</TITLE>
2914 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and the Officer</STAGEDIR>
2915 | 
2916 | <SPEECH>
2917 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2918 | <LINE>Fear me not, man; I will not break away:</LINE>
2919 | <LINE>I'll give thee, ere I leave thee, so much money,</LINE>
2920 | <LINE>To warrant thee, as I am 'rested for.</LINE>
2921 | <LINE>My wife is in a wayward mood to-day,</LINE>
2922 | <LINE>And will not lightly trust the messenger</LINE>
2923 | <LINE>That I should be attach'd in Ephesus,</LINE>
2924 | <LINE>I tell you, 'twill sound harshly in her ears.</LINE>
2925 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DROMIO of Ephesus with a rope's-end</STAGEDIR>
2926 | <LINE>Here comes my man; I think he brings the money.</LINE>
2927 | <LINE>How now, sir! have you that I sent you for?</LINE>
2928 | </SPEECH>
2929 | 
2930 | <SPEECH>
2931 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2932 | <LINE>Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all.</LINE>
2933 | </SPEECH>
2934 | 
2935 | <SPEECH>
2936 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2937 | <LINE>But where's the money?</LINE>
2938 | </SPEECH>
2939 | 
2940 | <SPEECH>
2941 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2942 | <LINE>Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope.</LINE>
2943 | </SPEECH>
2944 | 
2945 | <SPEECH>
2946 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2947 | <LINE>Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope?</LINE>
2948 | </SPEECH>
2949 | 
2950 | <SPEECH>
2951 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2952 | <LINE>I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate.</LINE>
2953 | </SPEECH>
2954 | 
2955 | <SPEECH>
2956 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2957 | <LINE>To what end did I bid thee hie thee home?</LINE>
2958 | </SPEECH>
2959 | 
2960 | <SPEECH>
2961 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2962 | <LINE>To a rope's-end, sir; and to that end am I returned.</LINE>
2963 | </SPEECH>
2964 | 
2965 | <SPEECH>
2966 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2967 | <LINE>And to that end, sir, I will welcome you.</LINE>
2968 | </SPEECH>
2969 | 
2970 | 
2971 | <STAGEDIR>Beating him</STAGEDIR>
2972 | 
2973 | <SPEECH>
2974 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
2975 | <LINE>Good sir, be patient.</LINE>
2976 | </SPEECH>
2977 | 
2978 | <SPEECH>
2979 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2980 | <LINE>Nay, 'tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity.</LINE>
2981 | </SPEECH>
2982 | 
2983 | <SPEECH>
2984 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
2985 | <LINE>Good, now, hold thy tongue.</LINE>
2986 | </SPEECH>
2987 | 
2988 | <SPEECH>
2989 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2990 | <LINE>Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands.</LINE>
2991 | </SPEECH>
2992 | 
2993 | <SPEECH>
2994 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
2995 | <LINE>Thou whoreson, senseless villain!</LINE>
2996 | </SPEECH>
2997 | 
2998 | <SPEECH>
2999 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3000 | <LINE>I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel</LINE>
3001 | <LINE>your blows.</LINE>
3002 | </SPEECH>
3003 | 
3004 | 
3005 | 
3006 | <SPEECH>
3007 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3008 | <LINE>I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long</LINE>
3009 | <LINE>ears. I have served him from the hour of my</LINE>
3010 | <LINE>nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his</LINE>
3011 | <LINE>hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he</LINE>
3012 | <LINE>heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me</LINE>
3013 | <LINE>with beating; I am waked with it when I sleep;</LINE>
3014 | <LINE>raised with it when I sit; driven out of doors with</LINE>
3015 | <LINE>it when I go from home; welcomed home with it when</LINE>
3016 | <LINE>I return; nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a</LINE>
3017 | <LINE>beggar wont her brat; and, I think when he hath</LINE>
3018 | <LINE>lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door.</LINE>
3019 | </SPEECH>
3020 | 
3021 | <SPEECH>
3022 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3023 | <LINE>Come, go along; my wife is coming yonder.</LINE>
3024 | </SPEECH>
3025 | 
3026 | 
3027 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and PINCH</STAGEDIR>
3028 | 
3029 | <SPEECH>
3030 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3031 | <LINE>Mistress, 'respice finem,' respect your end; or</LINE>
3032 | <LINE>rather, the prophecy like the parrot, 'beware the</LINE>
3033 | <LINE>rope's-end.'</LINE>
3034 | </SPEECH>
3035 | 
3036 | <SPEECH>
3037 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3038 | <LINE>Wilt thou still talk?</LINE>
3039 | </SPEECH>
3040 | 
3041 | 
3042 | <STAGEDIR>Beating him</STAGEDIR>
3043 | 
3044 | <SPEECH>
3045 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
3046 | <LINE>How say you now? is not your husband mad?</LINE>
3047 | </SPEECH>
3048 | 
3049 | <SPEECH>
3050 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3051 | <LINE>His incivility confirms no less.</LINE>
3052 | <LINE>Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;</LINE>
3053 | <LINE>Establish him in his true sense again,</LINE>
3054 | <LINE>And I will please you what you will demand.</LINE>
3055 | </SPEECH>
3056 | 
3057 | <SPEECH>
3058 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3059 | <LINE>Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!</LINE>
3060 | </SPEECH>
3061 | 
3062 | <SPEECH>
3063 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
3064 | <LINE>Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!</LINE>
3065 | </SPEECH>
3066 | 
3067 | <SPEECH>
3068 | <SPEAKER>PINCH</SPEAKER>
3069 | <LINE>Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.</LINE>
3070 | </SPEECH>
3071 | 
3072 | <SPEECH>
3073 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3074 | <LINE>There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.</LINE>
3075 | </SPEECH>
3076 | 
3077 | 
3078 | <STAGEDIR>Striking him</STAGEDIR>
3079 | 
3080 | <SPEECH>
3081 | <SPEAKER>PINCH</SPEAKER>
3082 | <LINE>I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,</LINE>
3083 | <LINE>To yield possession to my holy prayers</LINE>
3084 | <LINE>And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:</LINE>
3085 | <LINE>I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!</LINE>
3086 | </SPEECH>
3087 | 
3088 | <SPEECH>
3089 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3090 | <LINE>Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad.</LINE>
3091 | </SPEECH>
3092 | 
3093 | <SPEECH>
3094 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3095 | <LINE>O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!</LINE>
3096 | </SPEECH>
3097 | 
3098 | <SPEECH>
3099 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3100 | <LINE>You minion, you, are these your customers?</LINE>
3101 | <LINE>Did this companion with the saffron face</LINE>
3102 | <LINE>Revel and feast it at my house to-day,</LINE>
3103 | <LINE>Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut</LINE>
3104 | <LINE>And I denied to enter in my house?</LINE>
3105 | </SPEECH>
3106 | 
3107 | <SPEECH>
3108 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3109 | <LINE>O husband, God doth know you dined at home;</LINE>
3110 | <LINE>Where would you had remain'd until this time,</LINE>
3111 | <LINE>Free from these slanders and this open shame!</LINE>
3112 | </SPEECH>
3113 | 
3114 | <SPEECH>
3115 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3116 | <LINE>Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou?</LINE>
3117 | </SPEECH>
3118 | 
3119 | <SPEECH>
3120 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3121 | <LINE>Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.</LINE>
3122 | </SPEECH>
3123 | 
3124 | <SPEECH>
3125 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3126 | <LINE>Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out?</LINE>
3127 | </SPEECH>
3128 | 
3129 | <SPEECH>
3130 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3131 | <LINE>Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out.</LINE>
3132 | </SPEECH>
3133 | 
3134 | <SPEECH>
3135 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3136 | <LINE>And did not she herself revile me there?</LINE>
3137 | </SPEECH>
3138 | 
3139 | <SPEECH>
3140 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3141 | <LINE>Sans fable, she herself reviled you there.</LINE>
3142 | </SPEECH>
3143 | 
3144 | <SPEECH>
3145 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3146 | <LINE>Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?</LINE>
3147 | </SPEECH>
3148 | 
3149 | <SPEECH>
3150 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3151 | <LINE>Certes, she did; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you.</LINE>
3152 | </SPEECH>
3153 | 
3154 | <SPEECH>
3155 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3156 | <LINE>And did not I in rage depart from thence?</LINE>
3157 | </SPEECH>
3158 | 
3159 | <SPEECH>
3160 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3161 | <LINE>In verity you did; my bones bear witness,</LINE>
3162 | <LINE>That since have felt the vigour of his rage.</LINE>
3163 | </SPEECH>
3164 | 
3165 | <SPEECH>
3166 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3167 | <LINE>Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?</LINE>
3168 | </SPEECH>
3169 | 
3170 | <SPEECH>
3171 | <SPEAKER>PINCH</SPEAKER>
3172 | <LINE>It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein,</LINE>
3173 | <LINE>And yielding to him humours well his frenzy.</LINE>
3174 | </SPEECH>
3175 | 
3176 | <SPEECH>
3177 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3178 | <LINE>Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me.</LINE>
3179 | </SPEECH>
3180 | 
3181 | <SPEECH>
3182 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3183 | <LINE>Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,</LINE>
3184 | <LINE>By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.</LINE>
3185 | </SPEECH>
3186 | 
3187 | <SPEECH>
3188 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3189 | <LINE>Money by me! heart and goodwill you might;</LINE>
3190 | <LINE>But surely master, not a rag of money.</LINE>
3191 | </SPEECH>
3192 | 
3193 | <SPEECH>
3194 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3195 | <LINE>Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats?</LINE>
3196 | </SPEECH>
3197 | 
3198 | <SPEECH>
3199 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3200 | <LINE>He came to me and I deliver'd it.</LINE>
3201 | </SPEECH>
3202 | 
3203 | <SPEECH>
3204 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3205 | <LINE>And I am witness with her that she did.</LINE>
3206 | </SPEECH>
3207 | 
3208 | <SPEECH>
3209 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3210 | <LINE>God and the rope-maker bear me witness</LINE>
3211 | <LINE>That I was sent for nothing but a rope!</LINE>
3212 | </SPEECH>
3213 | 
3214 | <SPEECH>
3215 | <SPEAKER>PINCH</SPEAKER>
3216 | <LINE>Mistress, both man and master is possess'd;</LINE>
3217 | <LINE>I know it by their pale and deadly looks:</LINE>
3218 | <LINE>They must be bound and laid in some dark room.</LINE>
3219 | </SPEECH>
3220 | 
3221 | <SPEECH>
3222 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3223 | <LINE>Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day?</LINE>
3224 | <LINE>And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?</LINE>
3225 | </SPEECH>
3226 | 
3227 | <SPEECH>
3228 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3229 | <LINE>I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.</LINE>
3230 | </SPEECH>
3231 | 
3232 | <SPEECH>
3233 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3234 | <LINE>And, gentle master, I received no gold;</LINE>
3235 | <LINE>But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out.</LINE>
3236 | </SPEECH>
3237 | 
3238 | <SPEECH>
3239 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3240 | <LINE>Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both.</LINE>
3241 | </SPEECH>
3242 | 
3243 | <SPEECH>
3244 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3245 | <LINE>Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all;</LINE>
3246 | <LINE>And art confederate with a damned pack</LINE>
3247 | <LINE>To make a loathsome abject scorn of me:</LINE>
3248 | <LINE>But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes</LINE>
3249 | <LINE>That would behold in me this shameful sport.</LINE>
3250 | </SPEECH>
3251 | 
3252 | 
3253 | <STAGEDIR>Enter three or four, and offer to bind him.
3254 | He strives</STAGEDIR>
3255 | 
3256 | <SPEECH>
3257 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3258 | <LINE>O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.</LINE>
3259 | </SPEECH>
3260 | 
3261 | <SPEECH>
3262 | <SPEAKER>PINCH</SPEAKER>
3263 | <LINE>More company! The fiend is strong within him.</LINE>
3264 | </SPEECH>
3265 | 
3266 | <SPEECH>
3267 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3268 | <LINE>Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks!</LINE>
3269 | </SPEECH>
3270 | 
3271 | <SPEECH>
3272 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3273 | <LINE>What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,</LINE>
3274 | <LINE>I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them</LINE>
3275 | <LINE>To make a rescue?</LINE>
3276 | </SPEECH>
3277 | 
3278 | <SPEECH>
3279 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
3280 | <LINE>Masters, let him go</LINE>
3281 | <LINE>He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.</LINE>
3282 | </SPEECH>
3283 | 
3284 | <SPEECH>
3285 | <SPEAKER>PINCH</SPEAKER>
3286 | <LINE>Go bind this man, for he is frantic too.</LINE>
3287 | </SPEECH>
3288 | 
3289 | 
3290 | <STAGEDIR>They offer to bind Dromio of Ephesus</STAGEDIR>
3291 | 
3292 | <SPEECH>
3293 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3294 | <LINE>What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?</LINE>
3295 | <LINE>Hast thou delight to see a wretched man</LINE>
3296 | <LINE>Do outrage and displeasure to himself?</LINE>
3297 | </SPEECH>
3298 | 
3299 | <SPEECH>
3300 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
3301 | <LINE>He is my prisoner: if I let him go,</LINE>
3302 | <LINE>The debt he owes will be required of me.</LINE>
3303 | </SPEECH>
3304 | 
3305 | <SPEECH>
3306 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3307 | <LINE>I will discharge thee ere I go from thee:</LINE>
3308 | <LINE>Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,</LINE>
3309 | <LINE>And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it.</LINE>
3310 | <LINE>Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd</LINE>
3311 | <LINE>Home to my house. O most unhappy day!</LINE>
3312 | </SPEECH>
3313 | 
3314 | <SPEECH>
3315 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3316 | <LINE>O most unhappy strumpet!</LINE>
3317 | </SPEECH>
3318 | 
3319 | <SPEECH>
3320 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3321 | <LINE>Master, I am here entered in bond for you.</LINE>
3322 | </SPEECH>
3323 | 
3324 | <SPEECH>
3325 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3326 | <LINE>Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?</LINE>
3327 | </SPEECH>
3328 | 
3329 | <SPEECH>
3330 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3331 | <LINE>Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master:</LINE>
3332 | <LINE>cry 'The devil!'</LINE>
3333 | </SPEECH>
3334 | 
3335 | <SPEECH>
3336 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3337 | <LINE>God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!</LINE>
3338 | </SPEECH>
3339 | 
3340 | <SPEECH>
3341 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3342 | <LINE>Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me.</LINE>
3343 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer and
3344 | Courtezan</STAGEDIR>
3345 | <LINE>Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?</LINE>
3346 | </SPEECH>
3347 | 
3348 | <SPEECH>
3349 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
3350 | <LINE>One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?</LINE>
3351 | </SPEECH>
3352 | 
3353 | <SPEECH>
3354 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3355 | <LINE>I know the man. What is the sum he owes?</LINE>
3356 | </SPEECH>
3357 | 
3358 | <SPEECH>
3359 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
3360 | <LINE>Two hundred ducats.</LINE>
3361 | </SPEECH>
3362 | 
3363 | <SPEECH>
3364 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3365 | <LINE>Say, how grows it due?</LINE>
3366 | </SPEECH>
3367 | 
3368 | <SPEECH>
3369 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
3370 | <LINE>Due for a chain your husband had of him.</LINE>
3371 | </SPEECH>
3372 | 
3373 | <SPEECH>
3374 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3375 | <LINE>He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.</LINE>
3376 | </SPEECH>
3377 | 
3378 | <SPEECH>
3379 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
3380 | <LINE>When as your husband all in rage to-day</LINE>
3381 | <LINE>Came to my house and took away my ring--</LINE>
3382 | <LINE>The ring I saw upon his finger now--</LINE>
3383 | <LINE>Straight after did I meet him with a chain.</LINE>
3384 | </SPEECH>
3385 | 
3386 | <SPEECH>
3387 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3388 | <LINE>It may be so, but I did never see it.</LINE>
3389 | <LINE>Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is:</LINE>
3390 | <LINE>I long to know the truth hereof at large.</LINE>
3391 | </SPEECH>
3392 | 
3393 | 
3394 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse with his rapier drawn,
3395 | and DROMIO of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
3396 | 
3397 | <SPEECH>
3398 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3399 | <LINE>God, for thy mercy! they are loose again.</LINE>
3400 | </SPEECH>
3401 | 
3402 | <SPEECH>
3403 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3404 | <LINE>And come with naked swords.</LINE>
3405 | <LINE>Let's call more help to have them bound again.</LINE>
3406 | </SPEECH>
3407 | 
3408 | <SPEECH>
3409 | <SPEAKER>Officer</SPEAKER>
3410 | <LINE>Away! they'll kill us.</LINE>
3411 | </SPEECH>
3412 | 
3413 | 
3414 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio
3415 | of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
3416 | 
3417 | <SPEECH>
3418 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3419 | <LINE>I see these witches are afraid of swords.</LINE>
3420 | </SPEECH>
3421 | 
3422 | <SPEECH>
3423 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3424 | <LINE>She that would be your wife now ran from you.</LINE>
3425 | </SPEECH>
3426 | 
3427 | <SPEECH>
3428 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3429 | <LINE>Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence:</LINE>
3430 | <LINE>I long that we were safe and sound aboard.</LINE>
3431 | </SPEECH>
3432 | 
3433 | <SPEECH>
3434 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3435 | <LINE>Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us</LINE>
3436 | <LINE>no harm: you saw they speak us fair, give us gold:</LINE>
3437 | <LINE>methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for</LINE>
3438 | <LINE>the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of</LINE>
3439 | <LINE>me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and</LINE>
3440 | <LINE>turn witch.</LINE>
3441 | </SPEECH>
3442 | 
3443 | <SPEECH>
3444 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3445 | <LINE>I will not stay to-night for all the town;</LINE>
3446 | <LINE>Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard.</LINE>
3447 | </SPEECH>
3448 | 
3449 | 
3450 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
3451 | </SCENE>
3452 | 
3453 | </ACT>
3454 | 
3455 | <ACT><TITLE>ACT V</TITLE>
3456 | 
3457 | <SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  A street before a Priory.</TITLE>
3458 | <STAGEDIR>Enter Second Merchant and ANGELO</STAGEDIR>
3459 | 
3460 | <SPEECH>
3461 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
3462 | <LINE>I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you;</LINE>
3463 | <LINE>But, I protest, he had the chain of me,</LINE>
3464 | <LINE>Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.</LINE>
3465 | </SPEECH>
3466 | 
3467 | <SPEECH>
3468 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3469 | <LINE>How is the man esteemed here in the city?</LINE>
3470 | </SPEECH>
3471 | 
3472 | <SPEECH>
3473 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
3474 | <LINE>Of very reverend reputation, sir,</LINE>
3475 | <LINE>Of credit infinite, highly beloved,</LINE>
3476 | <LINE>Second to none that lives here in the city:</LINE>
3477 | <LINE>His word might bear my wealth at any time.</LINE>
3478 | </SPEECH>
3479 | 
3480 | <SPEECH>
3481 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3482 | <LINE>Speak softly; yonder, as I think, he walks.</LINE>
3483 | </SPEECH>
3484 | 
3485 | 
3486 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
3487 | 
3488 | <SPEECH>
3489 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
3490 | <LINE>'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck</LINE>
3491 | <LINE>Which he forswore most monstrously to have.</LINE>
3492 | <LINE>Good sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him.</LINE>
3493 | <LINE>Signior Antipholus, I wonder much</LINE>
3494 | <LINE>That you would put me to this shame and trouble;</LINE>
3495 | <LINE>And, not without some scandal to yourself,</LINE>
3496 | <LINE>With circumstance and oaths so to deny</LINE>
3497 | <LINE>This chain which now you wear so openly:</LINE>
3498 | <LINE>Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,</LINE>
3499 | <LINE>You have done wrong to this my honest friend,</LINE>
3500 | <LINE>Who, but for staying on our controversy,</LINE>
3501 | <LINE>Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day:</LINE>
3502 | <LINE>This chain you had of me; can you deny it?</LINE>
3503 | </SPEECH>
3504 | 
3505 | <SPEECH>
3506 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3507 | <LINE>I think I had; I never did deny it.</LINE>
3508 | </SPEECH>
3509 | 
3510 | <SPEECH>
3511 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3512 | <LINE>Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.</LINE>
3513 | </SPEECH>
3514 | 
3515 | <SPEECH>
3516 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3517 | <LINE>Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?</LINE>
3518 | </SPEECH>
3519 | 
3520 | <SPEECH>
3521 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3522 | <LINE>These ears of mine, thou know'st did hear thee.</LINE>
3523 | <LINE>Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou livest</LINE>
3524 | <LINE>To walk where any honest man resort.</LINE>
3525 | </SPEECH>
3526 | 
3527 | <SPEECH>
3528 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3529 | <LINE>Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:</LINE>
3530 | <LINE>I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty</LINE>
3531 | <LINE>Against thee presently, if thou darest stand.</LINE>
3532 | </SPEECH>
3533 | 
3534 | <SPEECH>
3535 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3536 | <LINE>I dare, and do defy thee for a villain.</LINE>
3537 | </SPEECH>
3538 | 
3539 | <STAGEDIR>They draw</STAGEDIR>
3540 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and others</STAGEDIR>
3541 | 
3542 | <SPEECH>
3543 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3544 | <LINE>Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad.</LINE>
3545 | <LINE>Some get within him, take his sword away:</LINE>
3546 | <LINE>Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.</LINE>
3547 | </SPEECH>
3548 | 
3549 | <SPEECH>
3550 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
3551 | <LINE>Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house!</LINE>
3552 | <LINE>This is some priory. In, or we are spoil'd!</LINE>
3553 | </SPEECH>
3554 | 
3555 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse
3556 | to the Priory</STAGEDIR>
3557 | <STAGEDIR>Enter the Lady Abbess, AEMILIA</STAGEDIR>
3558 | 
3559 | <SPEECH>
3560 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3561 | <LINE>Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?</LINE>
3562 | </SPEECH>
3563 | 
3564 | <SPEECH>
3565 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3566 | <LINE>To fetch my poor distracted husband hence.</LINE>
3567 | <LINE>Let us come in, that we may bind him fast</LINE>
3568 | <LINE>And bear him home for his recovery.</LINE>
3569 | </SPEECH>
3570 | 
3571 | <SPEECH>
3572 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
3573 | <LINE>I knew he was not in his perfect wits.</LINE>
3574 | </SPEECH>
3575 | 
3576 | <SPEECH>
3577 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3578 | <LINE>I am sorry now that I did draw on him.</LINE>
3579 | </SPEECH>
3580 | 
3581 | <SPEECH>
3582 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3583 | <LINE>How long hath this possession held the man?</LINE>
3584 | </SPEECH>
3585 | 
3586 | <SPEECH>
3587 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3588 | <LINE>This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,</LINE>
3589 | <LINE>And much different from the man he was;</LINE>
3590 | <LINE>But till this afternoon his passion</LINE>
3591 | <LINE>Ne'er brake into extremity of rage.</LINE>
3592 | </SPEECH>
3593 | 
3594 | <SPEECH>
3595 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3596 | <LINE>Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea?</LINE>
3597 | <LINE>Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye</LINE>
3598 | <LINE>Stray'd his affection in unlawful love?</LINE>
3599 | <LINE>A sin prevailing much in youthful men,</LINE>
3600 | <LINE>Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing.</LINE>
3601 | <LINE>Which of these sorrows is he subject to?</LINE>
3602 | </SPEECH>
3603 | 
3604 | <SPEECH>
3605 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3606 | <LINE>To none of these, except it be the last;</LINE>
3607 | <LINE>Namely, some love that drew him oft from home.</LINE>
3608 | </SPEECH>
3609 | 
3610 | <SPEECH>
3611 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3612 | <LINE>You should for that have reprehended him.</LINE>
3613 | </SPEECH>
3614 | 
3615 | <SPEECH>
3616 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3617 | <LINE>Why, so I did.</LINE>
3618 | </SPEECH>
3619 | 
3620 | <SPEECH>
3621 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3622 | <LINE>Ay, but not rough enough.</LINE>
3623 | </SPEECH>
3624 | 
3625 | <SPEECH>
3626 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3627 | <LINE>As roughly as my modesty would let me.</LINE>
3628 | </SPEECH>
3629 | 
3630 | <SPEECH>
3631 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3632 | <LINE>Haply, in private.</LINE>
3633 | </SPEECH>
3634 | 
3635 | <SPEECH>
3636 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3637 | <LINE>And in assemblies too.</LINE>
3638 | </SPEECH>
3639 | 
3640 | <SPEECH>
3641 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3642 | <LINE>Ay, but not enough.</LINE>
3643 | </SPEECH>
3644 | 
3645 | <SPEECH>
3646 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3647 | <LINE>It was the copy of our conference:</LINE>
3648 | <LINE>In bed he slept not for my urging it;</LINE>
3649 | <LINE>At board he fed not for my urging it;</LINE>
3650 | <LINE>Alone, it was the subject of my theme;</LINE>
3651 | <LINE>In company I often glanced it;</LINE>
3652 | <LINE>Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.</LINE>
3653 | </SPEECH>
3654 | 
3655 | <SPEECH>
3656 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3657 | <LINE>And thereof came it that the man was mad.</LINE>
3658 | <LINE>The venom clamours of a jealous woman</LINE>
3659 | <LINE>Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.</LINE>
3660 | <LINE>It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing,</LINE>
3661 | <LINE>And therefore comes it that his head is light.</LINE>
3662 | <LINE>Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings:</LINE>
3663 | <LINE>Unquiet meals make ill digestions;</LINE>
3664 | <LINE>Thereof the raging fire of fever bred;</LINE>
3665 | <LINE>And what's a fever but a fit of madness?</LINE>
3666 | <LINE>Thou say'st his sports were hinderd by thy brawls:</LINE>
3667 | <LINE>Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue</LINE>
3668 | <LINE>But moody and dull melancholy,</LINE>
3669 | <LINE>Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,</LINE>
3670 | <LINE>And at her heels a huge infectious troop</LINE>
3671 | <LINE>Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?</LINE>
3672 | <LINE>In food, in sport and life-preserving rest</LINE>
3673 | <LINE>To be disturb'd, would mad or man or beast:</LINE>
3674 | <LINE>The consequence is then thy jealous fits</LINE>
3675 | <LINE>Have scared thy husband from the use of wits.</LINE>
3676 | </SPEECH>
3677 | 
3678 | <SPEECH>
3679 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3680 | <LINE>She never reprehended him but mildly,</LINE>
3681 | <LINE>When he demean'd himself rough, rude and wildly.</LINE>
3682 | <LINE>Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?</LINE>
3683 | </SPEECH>
3684 | 
3685 | <SPEECH>
3686 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3687 | <LINE>She did betray me to my own reproof.</LINE>
3688 | <LINE>Good people enter and lay hold on him.</LINE>
3689 | </SPEECH>
3690 | 
3691 | <SPEECH>
3692 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3693 | <LINE>No, not a creature enters in my house.</LINE>
3694 | </SPEECH>
3695 | 
3696 | <SPEECH>
3697 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3698 | <LINE>Then let your servants bring my husband forth.</LINE>
3699 | </SPEECH>
3700 | 
3701 | <SPEECH>
3702 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3703 | <LINE>Neither: he took this place for sanctuary,</LINE>
3704 | <LINE>And it shall privilege him from your hands</LINE>
3705 | <LINE>Till I have brought him to his wits again,</LINE>
3706 | <LINE>Or lose my labour in assaying it.</LINE>
3707 | </SPEECH>
3708 | 
3709 | <SPEECH>
3710 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3711 | <LINE>I will attend my husband, be his nurse,</LINE>
3712 | <LINE>Diet his sickness, for it is my office,</LINE>
3713 | <LINE>And will have no attorney but myself;</LINE>
3714 | <LINE>And therefore let me have him home with me.</LINE>
3715 | </SPEECH>
3716 | 
3717 | <SPEECH>
3718 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3719 | <LINE>Be patient; for I will not let him stir</LINE>
3720 | <LINE>Till I have used the approved means I have,</LINE>
3721 | <LINE>With wholesome syrups, drugs and holy prayers,</LINE>
3722 | <LINE>To make of him a formal man again:</LINE>
3723 | <LINE>It is a branch and parcel of mine oath,</LINE>
3724 | <LINE>A charitable duty of my order.</LINE>
3725 | <LINE>Therefore depart and leave him here with me.</LINE>
3726 | </SPEECH>
3727 | 
3728 | <SPEECH>
3729 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3730 | <LINE>I will not hence and leave my husband here:</LINE>
3731 | <LINE>And ill it doth beseem your holiness</LINE>
3732 | <LINE>To separate the husband and the wife.</LINE>
3733 | </SPEECH>
3734 | 
3735 | <SPEECH>
3736 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
3737 | <LINE>Be quiet and depart: thou shalt not have him.</LINE>
3738 | </SPEECH>
3739 | 
3740 | 
3741 | <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
3742 | 
3743 | <SPEECH>
3744 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3745 | <LINE>Complain unto the duke of this indignity.</LINE>
3746 | </SPEECH>
3747 | 
3748 | <SPEECH>
3749 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3750 | <LINE>Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet</LINE>
3751 | <LINE>And never rise until my tears and prayers</LINE>
3752 | <LINE>Have won his grace to come in person hither</LINE>
3753 | <LINE>And take perforce my husband from the abbess.</LINE>
3754 | </SPEECH>
3755 | 
3756 | <SPEECH>
3757 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3758 | <LINE>By this, I think, the dial points at five:</LINE>
3759 | <LINE>Anon, I'm sure, the duke himself in person</LINE>
3760 | <LINE>Comes this way to the melancholy vale,</LINE>
3761 | <LINE>The place of death and sorry execution,</LINE>
3762 | <LINE>Behind the ditches of the abbey here.</LINE>
3763 | </SPEECH>
3764 | 
3765 | <SPEECH>
3766 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
3767 | <LINE>Upon what cause?</LINE>
3768 | </SPEECH>
3769 | 
3770 | <SPEECH>
3771 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
3772 | <LINE>To see a reverend Syracusian merchant,</LINE>
3773 | <LINE>Who put unluckily into this bay</LINE>
3774 | <LINE>Against the laws and statutes of this town,</LINE>
3775 | <LINE>Beheaded publicly for his offence.</LINE>
3776 | </SPEECH>
3777 | 
3778 | <SPEECH>
3779 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
3780 | <LINE>See where they come: we will behold his death.</LINE>
3781 | </SPEECH>
3782 | 
3783 | <SPEECH>
3784 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3785 | <LINE>Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey.</LINE>
3786 | </SPEECH>
3787 | 
3788 | 
3789 | <STAGEDIR>Enter DUKE SOLINUS, attended; AEGEON bareheaded; with the
3790 | Headsman and other Officers</STAGEDIR>
3791 | 
3792 | <SPEECH>
3793 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
3794 | <LINE>Yet once again proclaim it publicly,</LINE>
3795 | <LINE>If any friend will pay the sum for him,</LINE>
3796 | <LINE>He shall not die; so much we tender him.</LINE>
3797 | </SPEECH>
3798 | 
3799 | <SPEECH>
3800 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3801 | <LINE>Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess!</LINE>
3802 | </SPEECH>
3803 | 
3804 | <SPEECH>
3805 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
3806 | <LINE>She is a virtuous and a reverend lady:</LINE>
3807 | <LINE>It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong.</LINE>
3808 | </SPEECH>
3809 | 
3810 | <SPEECH>
3811 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3812 | <LINE>May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband,</LINE>
3813 | <LINE>Whom I made lord of me and all I had,</LINE>
3814 | <LINE>At your important letters,--this ill day</LINE>
3815 | <LINE>A most outrageous fit of madness took him;</LINE>
3816 | <LINE>That desperately he hurried through the street,</LINE>
3817 | <LINE>With him his bondman, all as mad as he--</LINE>
3818 | <LINE>Doing displeasure to the citizens</LINE>
3819 | <LINE>By rushing in their houses, bearing thence</LINE>
3820 | <LINE>Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like.</LINE>
3821 | <LINE>Once did I get him bound and sent him home,</LINE>
3822 | <LINE>Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went,</LINE>
3823 | <LINE>That here and there his fury had committed.</LINE>
3824 | <LINE>Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,</LINE>
3825 | <LINE>He broke from those that had the guard of him;</LINE>
3826 | <LINE>And with his mad attendant and himself,</LINE>
3827 | <LINE>Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,</LINE>
3828 | <LINE>Met us again and madly bent on us,</LINE>
3829 | <LINE>Chased us away; till, raising of more aid,</LINE>
3830 | <LINE>We came again to bind them. Then they fled</LINE>
3831 | <LINE>Into this abbey, whither we pursued them:</LINE>
3832 | <LINE>And here the abbess shuts the gates on us</LINE>
3833 | <LINE>And will not suffer us to fetch him out,</LINE>
3834 | <LINE>Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.</LINE>
3835 | <LINE>Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command</LINE>
3836 | <LINE>Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help.</LINE>
3837 | </SPEECH>
3838 | 
3839 | <SPEECH>
3840 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
3841 | <LINE>Long since thy husband served me in my wars,</LINE>
3842 | <LINE>And I to thee engaged a prince's word,</LINE>
3843 | <LINE>When thou didst make him master of thy bed,</LINE>
3844 | <LINE>To do him all the grace and good I could.</LINE>
3845 | <LINE>Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate</LINE>
3846 | <LINE>And bid the lady abbess come to me.</LINE>
3847 | <LINE>I will determine this before I stir.</LINE>
3848 | </SPEECH>
3849 | 
3850 | 
3851 | <STAGEDIR>Enter a Servant</STAGEDIR>
3852 | 
3853 | <SPEECH>
3854 | <SPEAKER>Servant</SPEAKER>
3855 | <LINE>O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!</LINE>
3856 | <LINE>My master and his man are both broke loose,</LINE>
3857 | <LINE>Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor</LINE>
3858 | <LINE>Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire;</LINE>
3859 | <LINE>And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him</LINE>
3860 | <LINE>Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:</LINE>
3861 | <LINE>My master preaches patience to him and the while</LINE>
3862 | <LINE>His man with scissors nicks him like a fool,</LINE>
3863 | <LINE>And sure, unless you send some present help,</LINE>
3864 | <LINE>Between them they will kill the conjurer.</LINE>
3865 | </SPEECH>
3866 | 
3867 | <SPEECH>
3868 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3869 | <LINE>Peace, fool! thy master and his man are here,</LINE>
3870 | <LINE>And that is false thou dost report to us.</LINE>
3871 | </SPEECH>
3872 | 
3873 | <SPEECH>
3874 | <SPEAKER>Servant</SPEAKER>
3875 | <LINE>Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true;</LINE>
3876 | <LINE>I have not breathed almost since I did see it.</LINE>
3877 | <LINE>He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,</LINE>
3878 | <LINE>To scorch your face and to disfigure you.</LINE>
3879 | <STAGEDIR>Cry within</STAGEDIR>
3880 | <LINE>Hark, hark! I hear him, mistress. fly, be gone!</LINE>
3881 | </SPEECH>
3882 | 
3883 | <SPEECH>
3884 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
3885 | <LINE>Come, stand by me; fear nothing. Guard with halberds!</LINE>
3886 | </SPEECH>
3887 | 
3888 | <SPEECH>
3889 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3890 | <LINE>Ay me, it is my husband! Witness you,</LINE>
3891 | <LINE>That he is borne about invisible:</LINE>
3892 | <LINE>Even now we housed him in the abbey here;</LINE>
3893 | <LINE>And now he's there, past thought of human reason.</LINE>
3894 | </SPEECH>
3895 | 
3896 | 
3897 | <STAGEDIR>Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus</STAGEDIR>
3898 | 
3899 | <SPEECH>
3900 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3901 | <LINE>Justice, most gracious duke, O, grant me justice!</LINE>
3902 | <LINE>Even for the service that long since I did thee,</LINE>
3903 | <LINE>When I bestrid thee in the wars and took</LINE>
3904 | <LINE>Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood</LINE>
3905 | <LINE>That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice.</LINE>
3906 | </SPEECH>
3907 | 
3908 | <SPEECH>
3909 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
3910 | <LINE>Unless the fear of death doth make me dote,</LINE>
3911 | <LINE>I see my son Antipholus and Dromio.</LINE>
3912 | </SPEECH>
3913 | 
3914 | <SPEECH>
3915 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3916 | <LINE>Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there!</LINE>
3917 | <LINE>She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife,</LINE>
3918 | <LINE>That hath abused and dishonour'd me</LINE>
3919 | <LINE>Even in the strength and height of injury!</LINE>
3920 | <LINE>Beyond imagination is the wrong</LINE>
3921 | <LINE>That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.</LINE>
3922 | </SPEECH>
3923 | 
3924 | <SPEECH>
3925 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
3926 | <LINE>Discover how, and thou shalt find me just.</LINE>
3927 | </SPEECH>
3928 | 
3929 | <SPEECH>
3930 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3931 | <LINE>This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me,</LINE>
3932 | <LINE>While she with harlots feasted in my house.</LINE>
3933 | </SPEECH>
3934 | 
3935 | <SPEECH>
3936 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
3937 | <LINE>A grievous fault! Say, woman, didst thou so?</LINE>
3938 | </SPEECH>
3939 | 
3940 | <SPEECH>
3941 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
3942 | <LINE>No, my good lord: myself, he and my sister</LINE>
3943 | <LINE>To-day did dine together. So befall my soul</LINE>
3944 | <LINE>As this is false he burdens me withal!</LINE>
3945 | </SPEECH>
3946 | 
3947 | <SPEECH>
3948 | <SPEAKER>LUCIANA</SPEAKER>
3949 | <LINE>Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night,</LINE>
3950 | <LINE>But she tells to your highness simple truth!</LINE>
3951 | </SPEECH>
3952 | 
3953 | <SPEECH>
3954 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
3955 | <LINE>O perjured woman! They are both forsworn:</LINE>
3956 | <LINE>In this the madman justly chargeth them.</LINE>
3957 | </SPEECH>
3958 | 
3959 | <SPEECH>
3960 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
3961 | <LINE>My liege, I am advised what I say,</LINE>
3962 | <LINE>Neither disturbed with the effect of wine,</LINE>
3963 | <LINE>Nor heady-rash, provoked with raging ire,</LINE>
3964 | <LINE>Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.</LINE>
3965 | <LINE>This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner:</LINE>
3966 | <LINE>That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her,</LINE>
3967 | <LINE>Could witness it, for he was with me then;</LINE>
3968 | <LINE>Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,</LINE>
3969 | <LINE>Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,</LINE>
3970 | <LINE>Where Balthazar and I did dine together.</LINE>
3971 | <LINE>Our dinner done, and he not coming thither,</LINE>
3972 | <LINE>I went to seek him: in the street I met him</LINE>
3973 | <LINE>And in his company that gentleman.</LINE>
3974 | <LINE>There did this perjured goldsmith swear me down</LINE>
3975 | <LINE>That I this day of him received the chain,</LINE>
3976 | <LINE>Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the which</LINE>
3977 | <LINE>He did arrest me with an officer.</LINE>
3978 | <LINE>I did obey, and sent my peasant home</LINE>
3979 | <LINE>For certain ducats: he with none return'd</LINE>
3980 | <LINE>Then fairly I bespoke the officer</LINE>
3981 | <LINE>To go in person with me to my house.</LINE>
3982 | <LINE>By the way we met</LINE>
3983 | <LINE>My wife, her sister, and a rabble more</LINE>
3984 | <LINE>Of vile confederates. Along with them</LINE>
3985 | <LINE>They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,</LINE>
3986 | <LINE>A mere anatomy, a mountebank,</LINE>
3987 | <LINE>A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,</LINE>
3988 | <LINE>A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,</LINE>
3989 | <LINE>A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave,</LINE>
3990 | <LINE>Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer,</LINE>
3991 | <LINE>And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,</LINE>
3992 | <LINE>And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me,</LINE>
3993 | <LINE>Cries out, I was possess'd. Then all together</LINE>
3994 | <LINE>They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence</LINE>
3995 | <LINE>And in a dark and dankish vault at home</LINE>
3996 | <LINE>There left me and my man, both bound together;</LINE>
3997 | <LINE>Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,</LINE>
3998 | <LINE>I gain'd my freedom, and immediately</LINE>
3999 | <LINE>Ran hither to your grace; whom I beseech</LINE>
4000 | <LINE>To give me ample satisfaction</LINE>
4001 | <LINE>For these deep shames and great indignities.</LINE>
4002 | </SPEECH>
4003 | 
4004 | <SPEECH>
4005 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
4006 | <LINE>My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him,</LINE>
4007 | <LINE>That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out.</LINE>
4008 | </SPEECH>
4009 | 
4010 | <SPEECH>
4011 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4012 | <LINE>But had he such a chain of thee or no?</LINE>
4013 | </SPEECH>
4014 | 
4015 | <SPEECH>
4016 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
4017 | <LINE>He had, my lord: and when he ran in here,</LINE>
4018 | <LINE>These people saw the chain about his neck.</LINE>
4019 | </SPEECH>
4020 | 
4021 | <SPEECH>
4022 | <SPEAKER>Second Merchant</SPEAKER>
4023 | <LINE>Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine</LINE>
4024 | <LINE>Heard you confess you had the chain of him</LINE>
4025 | <LINE>After you first forswore it on the mart:</LINE>
4026 | <LINE>And thereupon I drew my sword on you;</LINE>
4027 | <LINE>And then you fled into this abbey here,</LINE>
4028 | <LINE>From whence, I think, you are come by miracle.</LINE>
4029 | </SPEECH>
4030 | 
4031 | <SPEECH>
4032 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4033 | <LINE>I never came within these abbey-walls,</LINE>
4034 | <LINE>Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me:</LINE>
4035 | <LINE>I never saw the chain, so help me Heaven!</LINE>
4036 | <LINE>And this is false you burden me withal.</LINE>
4037 | </SPEECH>
4038 | 
4039 | <SPEECH>
4040 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4041 | <LINE>Why, what an intricate impeach is this!</LINE>
4042 | <LINE>I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup.</LINE>
4043 | <LINE>If here you housed him, here he would have been;</LINE>
4044 | <LINE>If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly:</LINE>
4045 | <LINE>You say he dined at home; the goldsmith here</LINE>
4046 | <LINE>Denies that saying. Sirrah, what say you?</LINE>
4047 | </SPEECH>
4048 | 
4049 | <SPEECH>
4050 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4051 | <LINE>Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porpentine.</LINE>
4052 | </SPEECH>
4053 | 
4054 | <SPEECH>
4055 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
4056 | <LINE>He did, and from my finger snatch'd that ring.</LINE>
4057 | </SPEECH>
4058 | 
4059 | <SPEECH>
4060 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4061 | <LINE>'Tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her.</LINE>
4062 | </SPEECH>
4063 | 
4064 | <SPEECH>
4065 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4066 | <LINE>Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here?</LINE>
4067 | </SPEECH>
4068 | 
4069 | <SPEECH>
4070 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
4071 | <LINE>As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace.</LINE>
4072 | </SPEECH>
4073 | 
4074 | <SPEECH>
4075 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4076 | <LINE>Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither.</LINE>
4077 | <LINE>I think you are all mated or stark mad.</LINE>
4078 | </SPEECH>
4079 | 
4080 | 
4081 | <STAGEDIR>Exit one to Abbess</STAGEDIR>
4082 | 
4083 | <SPEECH>
4084 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4085 | <LINE>Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word:</LINE>
4086 | <LINE>Haply I see a friend will save my life</LINE>
4087 | <LINE>And pay the sum that may deliver me.</LINE>
4088 | </SPEECH>
4089 | 
4090 | <SPEECH>
4091 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4092 | <LINE>Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt.</LINE>
4093 | </SPEECH>
4094 | 
4095 | <SPEECH>
4096 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4097 | <LINE>Is not your name, sir, call'd Antipholus?</LINE>
4098 | <LINE>And is not that your bondman, Dromio?</LINE>
4099 | </SPEECH>
4100 | 
4101 | <SPEECH>
4102 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4103 | <LINE>Within this hour I was his bondman sir,</LINE>
4104 | <LINE>But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords:</LINE>
4105 | <LINE>Now am I Dromio and his man unbound.</LINE>
4106 | </SPEECH>
4107 | 
4108 | <SPEECH>
4109 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4110 | <LINE>I am sure you both of you remember me.</LINE>
4111 | </SPEECH>
4112 | 
4113 | <SPEECH>
4114 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4115 | <LINE>Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you;</LINE>
4116 | <LINE>For lately we were bound, as you are now</LINE>
4117 | <LINE>You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?</LINE>
4118 | </SPEECH>
4119 | 
4120 | <SPEECH>
4121 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4122 | <LINE>Why look you strange on me? you know me well.</LINE>
4123 | </SPEECH>
4124 | 
4125 | <SPEECH>
4126 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4127 | <LINE>O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,</LINE>
4128 | <LINE>And careful hours with time's deformed hand</LINE>
4129 | <LINE>Have written strange defeatures in my face:</LINE>
4130 | <LINE>But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?</LINE>
4131 | </SPEECH>
4132 | 
4133 | <SPEECH>
4134 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4135 | <LINE>Neither.</LINE>
4136 | </SPEECH>
4137 | 
4138 | <SPEECH>
4139 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4140 | <LINE>Dromio, nor thou?</LINE>
4141 | </SPEECH>
4142 | 
4143 | <SPEECH>
4144 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4145 | <LINE>No, trust me, sir, nor I.</LINE>
4146 | </SPEECH>
4147 | 
4148 | <SPEECH>
4149 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4150 | <LINE>I am sure thou dost.</LINE>
4151 | </SPEECH>
4152 | 
4153 | <SPEECH>
4154 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4155 | <LINE>Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not; and whatsoever a</LINE>
4156 | <LINE>man denies, you are now bound to believe him.</LINE>
4157 | </SPEECH>
4158 | 
4159 | <SPEECH>
4160 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4161 | <LINE>Not know my voice! O time's extremity,</LINE>
4162 | <LINE>Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue</LINE>
4163 | <LINE>In seven short years, that here my only son</LINE>
4164 | <LINE>Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares?</LINE>
4165 | <LINE>Though now this grained face of mine be hid</LINE>
4166 | <LINE>In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,</LINE>
4167 | <LINE>And all the conduits of my blood froze up,</LINE>
4168 | <LINE>Yet hath my night of life some memory,</LINE>
4169 | <LINE>My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,</LINE>
4170 | <LINE>My dull deaf ears a little use to hear:</LINE>
4171 | <LINE>All these old witnesses--I cannot err--</LINE>
4172 | <LINE>Tell me thou art my son Antipholus.</LINE>
4173 | </SPEECH>
4174 | 
4175 | <SPEECH>
4176 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4177 | <LINE>I never saw my father in my life.</LINE>
4178 | </SPEECH>
4179 | 
4180 | <SPEECH>
4181 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4182 | <LINE>But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy,</LINE>
4183 | <LINE>Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son,</LINE>
4184 | <LINE>Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery.</LINE>
4185 | </SPEECH>
4186 | 
4187 | <SPEECH>
4188 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4189 | <LINE>The duke and all that know me in the city</LINE>
4190 | <LINE>Can witness with me that it is not so</LINE>
4191 | <LINE>I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life.</LINE>
4192 | </SPEECH>
4193 | 
4194 | <SPEECH>
4195 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4196 | <LINE>I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years</LINE>
4197 | <LINE>Have I been patron to Antipholus,</LINE>
4198 | <LINE>During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa:</LINE>
4199 | <LINE>I see thy age and dangers make thee dote.</LINE>
4200 | </SPEECH>
4201 | 
4202 | 
4203 | <STAGEDIR>Re-enter AEMILIA, with ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and
4204 | DROMIO of Syracuse</STAGEDIR>
4205 | 
4206 | <SPEECH>
4207 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
4208 | <LINE>Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd.</LINE>
4209 | </SPEECH>
4210 | 
4211 | 
4212 | <STAGEDIR>All gather to see them</STAGEDIR>
4213 | 
4214 | <SPEECH>
4215 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
4216 | <LINE>I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.</LINE>
4217 | </SPEECH>
4218 | 
4219 | <SPEECH>
4220 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4221 | <LINE>One of these men is Genius to the other;</LINE>
4222 | <LINE>And so of these. Which is the natural man,</LINE>
4223 | <LINE>And which the spirit? who deciphers them?</LINE>
4224 | </SPEECH>
4225 | 
4226 | <SPEECH>
4227 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4228 | <LINE>I, sir, am Dromio; command him away.</LINE>
4229 | </SPEECH>
4230 | 
4231 | <SPEECH>
4232 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4233 | <LINE>I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.</LINE>
4234 | </SPEECH>
4235 | 
4236 | <SPEECH>
4237 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4238 | <LINE>AEgeon art thou not? or else his ghost?</LINE>
4239 | </SPEECH>
4240 | 
4241 | <SPEECH>
4242 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4243 | <LINE>O, my old master! who hath bound him here?</LINE>
4244 | </SPEECH>
4245 | 
4246 | <SPEECH>
4247 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
4248 | <LINE>Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds</LINE>
4249 | <LINE>And gain a husband by his liberty.</LINE>
4250 | <LINE>Speak, old AEgeon, if thou be'st the man</LINE>
4251 | <LINE>That hadst a wife once call'd AEmilia</LINE>
4252 | <LINE>That bore thee at a burden two fair sons:</LINE>
4253 | <LINE>O, if thou be'st the same AEgeon, speak,</LINE>
4254 | <LINE>And speak unto the same AEmilia!</LINE>
4255 | </SPEECH>
4256 | 
4257 | <SPEECH>
4258 | <SPEAKER>AEGEON</SPEAKER>
4259 | <LINE>If I dream not, thou art AEmilia:</LINE>
4260 | <LINE>If thou art she, tell me where is that son</LINE>
4261 | <LINE>That floated with thee on the fatal raft?</LINE>
4262 | </SPEECH>
4263 | 
4264 | <SPEECH>
4265 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
4266 | <LINE>By men of Epidamnum he and I</LINE>
4267 | <LINE>And the twin Dromio all were taken up;</LINE>
4268 | <LINE>But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth</LINE>
4269 | <LINE>By force took Dromio and my son from them</LINE>
4270 | <LINE>And me they left with those of Epidamnum.</LINE>
4271 | <LINE>What then became of them I cannot tell</LINE>
4272 | <LINE>I to this fortune that you see me in.</LINE>
4273 | </SPEECH>
4274 | 
4275 | <SPEECH>
4276 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4277 | <LINE>Why, here begins his morning story right;</LINE>
4278 | <LINE>These two Antipholuses, these two so like,</LINE>
4279 | <LINE>And these two Dromios, one in semblance,--</LINE>
4280 | <LINE>Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,--</LINE>
4281 | <LINE>These are the parents to these children,</LINE>
4282 | <LINE>Which accidentally are met together.</LINE>
4283 | <LINE>Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first?</LINE>
4284 | </SPEECH>
4285 | 
4286 | <SPEECH>
4287 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4288 | <LINE>No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse.</LINE>
4289 | </SPEECH>
4290 | 
4291 | <SPEECH>
4292 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4293 | <LINE>Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which.</LINE>
4294 | </SPEECH>
4295 | 
4296 | <SPEECH>
4297 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4298 | <LINE>I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,--</LINE>
4299 | </SPEECH>
4300 | 
4301 | <SPEECH>
4302 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4303 | <LINE>And I with him.</LINE>
4304 | </SPEECH>
4305 | 
4306 | <SPEECH>
4307 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4308 | <LINE>Brought to this town by that most famous warrior,</LINE>
4309 | <LINE>Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.</LINE>
4310 | </SPEECH>
4311 | 
4312 | <SPEECH>
4313 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
4314 | <LINE>Which of you two did dine with me to-day?</LINE>
4315 | </SPEECH>
4316 | 
4317 | <SPEECH>
4318 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4319 | <LINE>I, gentle mistress.</LINE>
4320 | </SPEECH>
4321 | 
4322 | <SPEECH>
4323 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
4324 | <LINE>And are not you my husband?</LINE>
4325 | </SPEECH>
4326 | 
4327 | <SPEECH>
4328 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4329 | <LINE>No; I say nay to that.</LINE>
4330 | </SPEECH>
4331 | 
4332 | <SPEECH>
4333 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4334 | <LINE>And so do I; yet did she call me so:</LINE>
4335 | <LINE>And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,</LINE>
4336 | <LINE>Did call me brother.</LINE>
4337 | <STAGEDIR>To Luciana</STAGEDIR>
4338 | <LINE>What I told you then,</LINE>
4339 | <LINE>I hope I shall have leisure to make good;</LINE>
4340 | <LINE>If this be not a dream I see and hear.</LINE>
4341 | </SPEECH>
4342 | 
4343 | <SPEECH>
4344 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
4345 | <LINE>That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.</LINE>
4346 | </SPEECH>
4347 | 
4348 | <SPEECH>
4349 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4350 | <LINE>I think it be, sir; I deny it not.</LINE>
4351 | </SPEECH>
4352 | 
4353 | <SPEECH>
4354 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4355 | <LINE>And you, sir, for this chain arrested me.</LINE>
4356 | </SPEECH>
4357 | 
4358 | <SPEECH>
4359 | <SPEAKER>ANGELO</SPEAKER>
4360 | <LINE>I think I did, sir; I deny it not.</LINE>
4361 | </SPEECH>
4362 | 
4363 | <SPEECH>
4364 | <SPEAKER>ADRIANA</SPEAKER>
4365 | <LINE>I sent you money, sir, to be your bail,</LINE>
4366 | <LINE>By Dromio; but I think he brought it not.</LINE>
4367 | </SPEECH>
4368 | 
4369 | <SPEECH>
4370 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4371 | <LINE>No, none by me.</LINE>
4372 | </SPEECH>
4373 | 
4374 | <SPEECH>
4375 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4376 | <LINE>This purse of ducats I received from you,</LINE>
4377 | <LINE>And Dromio, my man, did bring them me.</LINE>
4378 | <LINE>I see we still did meet each other's man,</LINE>
4379 | <LINE>And I was ta'en for him, and he for me,</LINE>
4380 | <LINE>And thereupon these errors are arose.</LINE>
4381 | </SPEECH>
4382 | 
4383 | <SPEECH>
4384 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4385 | <LINE>These ducats pawn I for my father here.</LINE>
4386 | </SPEECH>
4387 | 
4388 | <SPEECH>
4389 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4390 | <LINE>It shall not need; thy father hath his life.</LINE>
4391 | </SPEECH>
4392 | 
4393 | <SPEECH>
4394 | <SPEAKER>Courtezan</SPEAKER>
4395 | <LINE>Sir, I must have that diamond from you.</LINE>
4396 | </SPEECH>
4397 | 
4398 | <SPEECH>
4399 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4400 | <LINE>There, take it; and much thanks for my good cheer.</LINE>
4401 | </SPEECH>
4402 | 
4403 | <SPEECH>
4404 | <SPEAKER>AEMELIA</SPEAKER>
4405 | <LINE>Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains</LINE>
4406 | <LINE>To go with us into the abbey here</LINE>
4407 | <LINE>And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:</LINE>
4408 | <LINE>And all that are assembled in this place,</LINE>
4409 | <LINE>That by this sympathized one day's error</LINE>
4410 | <LINE>Have suffer'd wrong, go keep us company,</LINE>
4411 | <LINE>And we shall make full satisfaction.</LINE>
4412 | <LINE>Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail</LINE>
4413 | <LINE>Of you, my sons; and till this present hour</LINE>
4414 | <LINE>My heavy burden ne'er delivered.</LINE>
4415 | <LINE>The duke, my husband and my children both,</LINE>
4416 | <LINE>And you the calendars of their nativity,</LINE>
4417 | <LINE>Go to a gossips' feast and go with me;</LINE>
4418 | <LINE>After so long grief, such festivity!</LINE>
4419 | </SPEECH>
4420 | 
4421 | <SPEECH>
4422 | <SPEAKER>DUKE SOLINUS</SPEAKER>
4423 | <LINE>With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast.</LINE>
4424 | </SPEECH>
4425 | 
4426 | 
4427 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse, Antipholus
4428 | of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus</STAGEDIR>
4429 | 
4430 | <SPEECH>
4431 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4432 | <LINE>Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?</LINE>
4433 | </SPEECH>
4434 | 
4435 | <SPEECH>
4436 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4437 | <LINE>Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd?</LINE>
4438 | </SPEECH>
4439 | 
4440 | <SPEECH>
4441 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4442 | <LINE>Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur.</LINE>
4443 | </SPEECH>
4444 | 
4445 | <SPEECH>
4446 | <SPEAKER>ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4447 | <LINE>He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio:</LINE>
4448 | <LINE>Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon:</LINE>
4449 | <LINE>Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him.</LINE>
4450 | </SPEECH>
4451 | 
4452 | 
4453 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus</STAGEDIR>
4454 | 
4455 | <SPEECH>
4456 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4457 | <LINE>There is a fat friend at your master's house,</LINE>
4458 | <LINE>That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner:</LINE>
4459 | <LINE>She now shall be my sister, not my wife.</LINE>
4460 | </SPEECH>
4461 | 
4462 | <SPEECH>
4463 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4464 | <LINE>Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:</LINE>
4465 | <LINE>I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.</LINE>
4466 | <LINE>Will you walk in to see their gossiping?</LINE>
4467 | </SPEECH>
4468 | 
4469 | <SPEECH>
4470 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4471 | <LINE>Not I, sir; you are my elder.</LINE>
4472 | </SPEECH>
4473 | 
4474 | <SPEECH>
4475 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4476 | <LINE>That's a question: how shall we try it?</LINE>
4477 | </SPEECH>
4478 | 
4479 | <SPEECH>
4480 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF SYRACUSE</SPEAKER>
4481 | <LINE>We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first.</LINE>
4482 | </SPEECH>
4483 | 
4484 | <SPEECH>
4485 | <SPEAKER>DROMIO OF EPHESUS</SPEAKER>
4486 | <LINE>Nay, then, thus:</LINE>
4487 | <LINE>We came into the world like brother and brother;</LINE>
4488 | <LINE>And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.</LINE>
4489 | </SPEECH>
4490 | 
4491 | 
4492 | <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
4493 | </SCENE>
4494 | </ACT>
4495 | </PLAY>
4496 | 


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