Ang. Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have : Go home with it, and please your wife withal; S. Ant. I pray you, Sir, receive the mony now; [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 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, 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 E. Dro. I buy a thousand pound a year! I buy a Ang. Saving your merry humour, here's the note, I pray you, fee him prefently difcharg'd; E. Ant. I am not furnifh'd with the prefent mony; 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; Mer. The hour fteals on; I pray you, Sir, dispatch. 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. ? E. Ant. I answer you? why fhould I answer you Ang. You wrong me more, Sir, in denying it; 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! Ang. Here is thy fee; arreft him, officer; Offi. I do arreft you, Sir; you hear the fuit. Ang. Sir, Sir, I fhall have law in Ephefus, 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 : [Exeunt. For fervants muft their mafter's minds fulfil. Changes to E. Antipholis's House. Adr. Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee fo? 2 [Exit. Luc. First he deny'd.-You had in him no right. Luc. Then fwore he, that he was a stranger here. 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. 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 Did lately meet in the intestine And furious clofe of civil butchery. |