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The Mart.
[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of SYRACUSE, DROMIO of SYRACUSE, and First Merchant]
FIRST MERCHANT
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Therefore | give^out | you are of | Epi|damium,
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Lest that | your goods | too* soon | be
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This ve|ry day | a Syr|acu|sian merch||ant
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Is ap|prehend|ed for | arriv|al here,
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And not | being^ab|le to / buy out | his life,
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Accord|ing to | the stat|ute of | the town,
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Dies ere | the wear|y sun | set in | the west:
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There is | your mon|ey that | I had | to keep.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Go bear / it to | the Cent|aur, where | we host,
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And stay | there Dro/mio,| till I | come to thee;
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Within | this hour | it will | be din|ner time,
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Till that | I'll view | the man|ners of | the
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Peruse | the trad|ers, gaze | upon the |
buildings,
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And then | return | and sleep | within |
mine^inn,
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For with long | travel | I am | stiff and |
weary.
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Get thee | away. \\
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
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Many | a man | would take | you at | your word,
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And go | indeed,| having | so good | a mean.
[Exit]
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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A trust|y vil|lain sir,| that ve|ry oft,
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When I am | dull with | care and | melan|choly,
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Lightens | my hum|or with | his mer|ry jests:
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What will | you walk | with me | about | the
town,
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And then | go to | my inn | and dine | with me?
FIRST MERCHANT
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I am in|vited | sir to | certain | merchants,
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Of whom | I hope | to make | much ben/efit:
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I crave | your pard|on, soon | at five | o'clock,
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Please you,| I'll meet | with you | upon | the
mart,
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And aft|erward | consort | you till / bedtime:
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My pres|ent bus|iness calls | me from | you now.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Farewell | till then:| I will | go lose | myself,
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And wand|er up | and down | to view | the ci||ty.
FIRST MERCHANT
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Sir,| I commend | you to | your own | content.
[Exit]
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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He that | commends | me to | mine^own | content,
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Commends | me to | the thing | I can|not get:
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I to the | world am | like a | drop of | water,
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That in | the o|cean seeks | anoth|er drop,
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Who* fal|ling there | to find | his fel|low
forth,
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(Unseen,| inqui|sitive)| confounds | himself.
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So I, to | find a | mother | and a | brother,
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In quest | of them |(unhap|py) lose | myself.
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Here* comes | the al|manac | of my / true date:
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What now?| How* chance | thou art | returned | so
soon?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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Returned | so soon,| rather | approached | too
late:
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The cap|on burns,| the pig | falls from | the
spit;
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The clock | hath struck|en twelve | upon | the
bell:
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My mist|ress made | it one | upon | my cheek:
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She is / so hot | because | the meat | is cold:
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The meat | is cold,| because | you come | not
home:
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You come | not home,| because | you have no |
stomach:
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You have | no stom|ach, hav|ing broke | your
fast:
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But we | that know | what 'tis | to fast | and
pray,
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Are pen|itent | for your | default | today.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Stop in | your wind | sir, tell | me this | I
pray?
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Where have you | left the | money | that I | gave
you.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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Oh six|pence* that | I had | of Wednes|day last,
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To pay | the sad|dler for my | mistress'|
crupper:
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The sad|dler had | it sir,| I kept | it not.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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I am | not in | a spor|tive hum|or now:
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Tell me,| and dal|ly not,| where is the | money?
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We be|ing strang|ers here,| how darst | thou
trust
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So great | a charge | from thine^|own cus/tody*.
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DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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I pray | you jest | sir as you | sit at | dinner:
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I from | my mist|ress come | to you | in post:
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If I | return | I shall | be post | indeed.
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For she | will score | your fault | upon | my
pate:
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Methinks | your maw,| like^mine,| should be |
your cook,
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And strike | you home | without | a mes|senger.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Come* Dro|mio, come,| these jests / are out^of |
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Reserve | them till | a mer|rier hour | than
this:
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Where is | the gold | I gave | in charge | to
thee?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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To me | sir? Why | you gave | no gold | to me?
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Come^on | sir knave,| have^done | your
fool|ishness,
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And tell me | how thou / hast dis|posed thy
charge.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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My charge | was but | to fetch | you from | the
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Home to your | house, the | Phoenix | sir, to |
dinner;
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My mist|ress and | her sis|ter stays | for you.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Now as | I am | a Chris|tian ans|wer me,
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In what safe place | you have be|stowed my
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Or I | shall break | that mer|ry sconce | of
yours
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That stands | on tricks,| when I | am
un|disposed:
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Where is | the thous|and marks | thou hadst | of
me?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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I have | some^marks | of yours | upon | my pate:
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Some of my | mistress'| marks u|pon my |
shoulders:
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But not | a thous|and marks | between | you both.
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If I | should pay | your worsh|ip those | again,
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Perchance | you will / not bear | them
pa|tiently.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Thy mist|ress' marks?| What mist|ress slave |
hast thou?
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Your worsh|ip's wife,| my mist/ress at the |
Phoenix;
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She that | doth fast | till you | come home to
dinner:
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And prays | that you | will hie | you home | to
dinner.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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What* wilt | thou flout | me thus | unto | my face
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Being | forbid?| There* take | you that | sir
knave.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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What mean | you sir,| for God's sake hold | your
hands:
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Nay, and / you will | not sir,| I'll take | my
heels.
[Exit]
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
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Upon | my life | by some de|vice or | other,
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The vil|lain is ore|wrought of | all my | money.
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They say | this town | is full | of coz|enage:
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As nim|ble jug|glers that | deceive | the eye:
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Dark-|working | sorcerers | that change | the
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Soul-|killing | witches, that | deform the | body:
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Disguis|ed cheat|ers, prat|ing mount|ebanks;
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And ma|ny such-|like lib/erties*| of sin:
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If it prove | so, I / will be | gone the |
sooner:
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I'll to | the Cent|aur* to / go seek | this
slave,
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I great|ly fear | my mon|ey is / not safe.
[Exit]