998And buy a ropes end, that will I bestow

999Among my wife, and their confederates,

1000For locking me out of my doores by day:

1001But soft I see the Goldsmith; get thee gone,

1002Buy thou a rope, and bring it home to me.

1003Dro. I buy a thousand pound a yeare, I buy a rope.

1005Eph.Ant. A man is well holpe vp that trusts to you,

1006I promised your presence, and the Chaine,

1007But neither Chaine nor Goldsmith came to me:

1008Belike you thought our loue would last too long

1009If it were chain'd together: and therefore came not.

1010Gold. Sauing your merrie humor: here's the note

1011How much your Chaine weighs to the vtmost charect,

1012The finenesse of the Gold, and chargefull fashion,

1013Which doth amount to three odde Duckets more

1014Then I stand debted to this Gentleman,

1015I pray you see him presently discharg'd,

1016For he is bound to Sea, and stayes but for it.

1017Anti. I am not furnish'd with the present monie:

1018Besides I haue some businesse in the towne,

1019Good Signior take the stranger to my house,

1020And with you take the Chaine, and bid my wife

1021Disburse the summe, on the receit thereof,

1022Perchance I will be there as soone as you.

1023Gold. Then you will bring the Chaine to her your

1024selfe.

1025Anti. No beare it with you, least I come not time e-

1026nough.

1027Gold. Well sir, I will? Haue you the Chaine about

1028you?

1029Ant. And if I haue not sir, I hope you haue:

1030Or else you may returne without your money.

1031Gold. Nay come I pray you sir, giue me the Chaine:

1032Both winde and tide stayes for this Gentleman,

1033And I too blame haue held him heere too long.

1034Anti. Good Lord, you vse this dalliance to excuse

1035Your breach of promise to the Porpentine,

1036I should haue chid you for not bringing it,

1037But like a shrew you first begin to brawle.

1038Mar. The houre steales on, I pray you sir dispatch.

1039Gold. You heare how he importunes me, the Chaine.

1040Ant. Why giue it to my wife, and fetch your mony.

1041Gold. Come, come, you know I gaue it you euen now.

1042Either send the Chaine, or send me by some token.

1043Ant. Fie, now you run this humor out of breath,

1044Come where's the Chaine, I pray you let me see it.

1045Mar. My businesse cannot brooke this dalliance,

1046Good sir say, whe'r you'l answer me, or no:

1047If not, Ile leaue him to the Officer.

1048Ant. I answer you? What should I answer you.

1049Gold. The monie that you owe me for the Chaine.

1050Ant. I owe you none, till I receiue the Chaine.

1051Gold. You know I gaue it you halfe an houre since.

1052Ant. You gaue me none, you wrong mee much to

1053say so.

1054Gold. You wrong me more sir in denying it.

1055Consider how it stands vpon my credit.

1056Mar. Well Officer, arrest him at my suite.

1057Offi. I do, and charge you in the Dukes name to o-

1058bey me.

1059Gold. This touches me in reputation.

1060Either consent to pay this sum for me,

1061Or I attach you by this Officer.

1062Ant. Consent to pay thee that I neuer had:

1063Arrest me foolish fellow if thou dar'st.

1064Gold. Heere is thy fee, arrest him Officer.

1065I would not spare my brother in this case,

1066If he should scorne me so apparantly.

1067Offic. I do arrest you sir, you heare the suite.

1068Ant. I do obey thee, till I giue thee baile.

1069But sirrah, you shall buy this sport as deere,

1070As all the mettall in your shop will answer.

1071Gold. Sir, sir, I shall haue Law in Ephesus,

1072To your notorious shame, I doubt it not.

1074Dro. Master, there's a Barke of Epidamium,

1075That staies but till her Owner comes aboord,

1076And then sir she beares away. Our fraughtage sir,

1077I haue conuei'd aboord, and I haue bought

1078The Oyle, the Balsamum, and Aqua-vitae.

1079The ship is in her trim, the merrie winde

1080Blowes faire from land: they stay for nought at all,

1081But for their Owner, Master, and your selfe.

1082An. How now? a Madman? Why thou peeuish sheep

1083What ship of Epidamium staies for me.

1084S.Dro. A ship you sent me too, to hier waftage.

1085Ant. Thou drunken slaue, I sent thee for a rope,

1086And told thee to what purpose, and what end.

1087S.Dro. You sent me for a ropes end as soone,

1088You sent me to the Bay sir, for a Barke.

1089Ant. I will debate this matter at more leisure

1090And teach your eares to list me with more heede:

1091To Adriana Villaine hie thee straight:

1092Giue her this key, and tell her in the Deske

1093That's couer'd o're with Turkish Tapistrie,

1094There is a purse of Duckets, let her send it:

1095Tell her, I am arrested in the streete,

1096And that shall baile me: hie thee slaue, be gone,

1097On Officer to prison, till it come. Exeunt

1098S.Dromio. To Adriana, that is where we din'd,

1099Where Dowsabell did claime me for her husband,

1100She is too bigge I hope for me to compasse,

1101Thither I must, although against my will:

1102For seruants must their Masters mindes fulfill. Exit

1104Adr. Ah Luciana, did he tempt thee so?

1105Might'st thou perceiue austeerely in his eie,

1106That he did plead in earnest, yea or no:

1107Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?

1108What obseruation mad'st thou in this case?

1109Oh, his hearts Meteors tilting in his face.

1110Luc. First he deni'de you had in him no right.

1111Adr. He meant he did me none: the more my spight

1112Luc. Then swore he that he was a stranger heere.

1113Adr. And true

he swore, though yet forsworne hee

1114were.

1115Luc. Then pleaded I for you.

1116Adr. And what said he?

1117Luc. That loue I begg'd for you, he begg'd of me.

1118Adr. With what perswasion did he tempt thy loue?

1119Luc. With words, that in an honest suit might moue.

1120First, he did praise my beautie, then my speech.

1121Adr. Did'st speake him faire?

1122Luc. Haue patience I beseech.

1123Adr. I cannot, nor I will not hold me still.

1124My tongue, though not my heart, shall haue his will.

1125He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,

1126Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapelesse euery where:

1127Vicious, vngentle, foolish, blunt, vnkinde,