Ang. Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have :

Go home with it, and please your wife withal;
And foon at fupper-time I'll vifit you,
And then receive my mony for the chain.

S. Ant. I pray you, Sir, receive the mony now;
For fear you ne'er fee chain, nor mony, more.
Ang. You are a merry man, Sir; fare you well.
[Exit.
S. Ant. What I fhould think of this, I cannot tell:
But this I think, there's no man is fo vain,
That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain.
I fee, a man here needs not live by fhifts.
When in the streets he meets fuch golden gifts:
I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio tay;
If any fhip put out, then ftrait awaay.

[Exit.

ACT IV.

SCENE I.

The STREET.

Enter a Merchant, Angelo, and an Officer.

MERCHANT.

U know, fince Pentecoft the fum is due;

You And fince I have not much importun'd you;

Nor now I had not, but that I am bound
To Perfia, and want gilders for my voyage:
Therefore make prefent fatisfaction;

Or I'll attach you by this officer.

Ang. Ev'n juft the fum, that I do owe to you, Is growing to me by Antipholis;

And, in the inftant that I met with you,

He had of me a chain: at five o'clock,

I fhall

I fhall receive the mony for the fame:

Pleafe you but walk with me down to his house,
I will discharge my bond, and thank you too.

Enter Antipholis of Ephefus, and Dromio of Ephefus, as from the Courtezan's.

Offi. That labour you may fave: fee where he comes : E. Ant. While I go to the goldfmith's houfe, go

thou

And buy a rope's end; that I will beftow
Among my wife and her confederates,
For locking me out of my doors by day.
But, foft; I fee the goldfmith: get thee gone,
Buy thou a rope, and bring it home to me.

E. Dro. I buy a thousand pound a year! I buy a
rope!
[Exit Dromio.
E. Ant. A man is well holp up, that trufts to you:
I promised your prefence, and the chain:
But neither chain, nor goldfmith, came to me:
Belike, you thought, our love would last too long
If it were chain'd together; therefore came not.

Ang. Saving your merry humour, here's the note,
How much your chain weighs to the utmost carrat;
The fineness of the gold, the chargeful fashion;
Which do amount to three odd ducats more,
Than I ftand debted to this gentleman;

I pray you, fee him prefently difcharg'd;
For he is bound to fea, and ftays but for it.

E. Ant. I am not furnifh'd with the prefent mony;
Befides, I have fome business in the town;
Good Signior, take the ftranger to my house,
And with you take the chain, and bid my wife
Difburfe the fum on the receipt thereof;
Perchance, I will be there as foon as you.

Ang. Then you will bring the chain to her yourself? E. Ant. No; bear it with you, left I come not time enough.

Ang.

Ang. Well, Sir, I will have you the chain about

you?

E. Ant. An if I have not, Sir, I hope, you have: Or else you may return without your mony.

Ang. Nay, come, I pray you, Sir, give me the chain;

Both wind and tide ftay for this gentleman;

And I, to blame, have held him here too long.

E. Ant. Good Lord, you ufe this dalliance to excufe Your breach of promife to the Porcupine:

I fhould have chid you for not bringing it;
But, like a fhrew, you first begin to brawl.

Mer. The hour fteals on; I pray you, Sir, dispatch.
Ang. You hear, how he importunes me; the chain-
E. Ant. Why, give it my wife, and fetch your

mony.

Ang. Come, come you know, I gave it you ev'n

now.

Or fend the chain, or fend me by fome token.

E. Ang. Fy, now you run this humour out of breath.

Come, where's the chain? I pray you, let me fee it.
Mer. My bufinefs cannot brook this dalliance:
Good Sir, fay, whe'r you'll anfwer me or no :
If not, I'll leave him to the officer.

?

E. Ant. I answer you? why fhould I answer you
Ang. The mony, that you owe me for the chain.
Ang. I owe you none, 'till I receive the chain.
Ang. You know, I gave it you half an hour fince.
E. Ant. You gave me none; you wrong me much
to fay fo.

Ang. You wrong me more, Sir, in denying it;
Confider; how it ftands upon my credit.

Mer. Well, officer, arreft him at my fuit.

Off. I do, and charge you in the Duke's name to obey me.

Ang. This touches me in reputation. Either confent to pay the fum for me,

Or

Or I attach you by this officer.

E. Ant. Confent to pay for that I never had!
Arreft me, foolish fellow, if thou dar'ft.

Ang. Here is thy fee; arreft him, officer;
I would not fpare my brother in this cafe,
If he should fcorn me fo apparently.

Offi. I do arreft you, Sir; you hear the fuit.
E. Ant. I do obey thee, 'till I give thee bail.
But, Sirrah, you fhall buy this sport as dear
As all the metal in your fhop will answer.

Ang. Sir, Sir, I fhall have law in Ephefus,
To your notorious flame, I doubt it not.

SCENE II.

Enter Dromio of Syracufe, from the Bay.

S. Dro. Mafter, there is a bark of Epidamnum, That stays but till her owner comes aboard; Then, Sir, fhe bears away. Our fraughtage, Sir, I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought The Oil, the Balfamum, and Aqua-vite. The fhip is in her trim; the merry wind Blows fair from land; they ftay for nought at all. But for their owner, mafter, and yourself.

E. Ant. How now ! a mad man! why, thou peevish fheep,

What fhip of Epidamnum fays for me?

S. Dro. A fhip you fent me to, to hire waftage. E. Ant. Thou drunken flave, I fent thee for a rope; And told thee to what purpoíe, and what end.

S. Dro. You fent me for a rope's-end as foon: You fent me to the bay, Sir, for a bark.

E. Ant. I will debate this matter at more leifure And teach your ears to lift me with more heed. To Adriana, villain, hie thee strait, Give her this key, and tell her, in the defk That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry,

There

There is a purfe of ducats, let her fend it :

Tell her, I am arrested in the street,

And that fhall bail me; hie thee, flave; be gone :
On, officer, to prifon 'till it come.

[Exeunt.
S. Dre. To Adriana! that is where we din'd,
Where Dowfabel did claim me for her husband ;
She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
Thither I mult, altho' against my will,

For fervants muft their mafter's minds fulfil.

Changes to E. Antipholis's House.
Enter Adriana and Luciana,

Adr. Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee fo?
Might'st thou perceive aufterely in his eye
That he did plead in earnest, yea or no?
Look'd he or red or pale, or fad or merrily?
What obfervation mad'st thou in this cafe,
Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face 2?

2

[Exit.

Luc. First he deny'd.-You had in him no right.
Adr. He meant, he did me none, the more my
fpight.

Luc. Then fwore he, that he was a stranger here.
Adr. And true he fwore, though yet forfworn he

were.

Luc. Then pleaded I for you.

Adr, And what faid he?

Luc. That love I begg'd for you, he begg'd of me.
Adr. With what perfuafion did he tempt thy love?
Luc. With words, that in an honeft fuit might move.

meteors tilting in his face ?] Alluding to thofe meteors in the fky which have the appearance of lines of armies meeting in the fhock. To this appearance he compares civil wars in another place.

Which, like the meteors of a

troubled heav'n,

All of one nature of one fubftance
bred,

Did lately meet in the intestine
Shock

And furious clofe of civil butchery.
WARBURTON,