Yet will I favour thee in what I can: Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus; GAOLER. I will, my lord. 152 156 ÆGEON. Hopeless and helpless doth Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. SCENE II.-The Mart. [Exeunt. Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse, and a MERCHANT. num, Merchant. Therefore, give out you are of Epidam Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host, And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee. Till that, I'll view the manners of the town, 8 12 16 DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. Many a man would take you at your word, And go indeed, having so good a mean. [Exit. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. A trusty villain, sir, that very oft, When I am dull with care and melancholy, Lightens my humour with his merry jests. 20 What, will you walk with me about the town, And then go to my inn and dine with me? 25 MERCHANT. I am invited, sir, to certain merchants, Of whom I hope to make much benefit; I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock, Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart, And afterward consort you till bed-time: My present business calls me from you now. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. go lose myself, 28 Farewell till then: I will And wander up and down to view the city. MERCHANT. Sir, I commend you to your own con tent. [Exit. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. He that commends me to mine own content, Commends me to the thing I cannot get. Enter DROMIO of Ephesus. Here comes the almanack of my true date. 33 36 40 What now? How chance thou art return'd so soon? DROMIO OF EPHESUS. Return'd so soon! rather approach'd too late : The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, 44 My mistress made it one upon my cheek: The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; She is so hot because the meat is cold; The meat is cold because you come not home; 48 You come not home because you have no stomach; You have no stomach, having broke your fast; 52 ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray : Where have you left the money that I gave you? DROMIO OF EPHESUS. O!-sixpence, that I had o' To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper; 56 ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. I am not in a sportive humour now. 60 Tell me, and dally not, where is the money? clock 64 I from my mistress come to you in post; your Reserve them till a merrier hour than this. DROMIO OF EPHESUS. no gold to me. 68 To me, sir? why, you gave ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness, 72 And tell me how thou hast dispos'd thy charge. DROMIO OF EPHESUS. My charge was but to fetch you from the mart Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner : 76 ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Now, as I am a Christian, answer me, 80 In what safe place you have bestow'd my money; upon my pate, Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders, 84 Perchance you will not bear them patiently. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Thy mistress' marks! what mistress, slave, hast thou? DROMIO OF EPHESUS. Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix; 88 She that doth fast till you come home to dinner, Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave. 92 Nay, an you will not, sir, I'll take my heels. [Exit. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE. Upon my life, by some device or other The villain is o'er-raught of all my money. ACT II. SCENE I.-The House of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus. ADRIANA. return'd, 96 100 104 [Exit. Neither my husband, nor the slave That in such haste I sent to seek his master! Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock. LUCIANA. Perhaps some merchant hath invited him, And from the mart he 's somewhere gone to dinner. 5 Good sister, let us dine and never fret: A man is master of his liberty: 8 Time is their master, and, when they see time, ADRIANA. 6 Because their business still lies out o' door. ADRIANA. Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill. LUCIANA. O! know he is the bridle of your will. 13 There's none but asses will be bridled so. LUCIANA. Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky: The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Men, more divine, the masters of all these, Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females and their lords: Then, let your will attend on their accords. ADRIANA. 20 24 This servitude makes you to keep unwed. LUCIANA. Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed. ADRIANA. But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway. 28 LUCIANA. Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey. How if your husband start some other ADRIANA. where ? LUCIANA. ADRIANA. pause; Till he come home again, I would forbear. They can be meek that have no other cause. LUCIANA. Well, I will marry one day, but to try. Here comes your man: now is your husband nigh. 32 36 40 |