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The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.
[Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA]
ADRIANA
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Neither | my hus|band nor | the slave | returned,
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That in such | haste I | sent to | seek his |
master?
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Sure Lu|cia|na it | is two | o'clock.
LUCIANA
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Perhaps | some mer/chant hath | invit|ed him,
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And from | the mart | he's some|where gone | to
dinner:
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Good sis/ter let | us dine,| and nev|er fret;
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A man | is mast|er of | his lib|erty:
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Time is | their mast|er, and | when they / see
time,
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They'll go | or come;| if so,| be pa|tient
sis||ter.
ADRIANA
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Why should | their lib|erty | than ours | be
more?
LUCIANA
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Because | their bus|iness still | lies^out | of
door.
ADRIANA
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Look^when | I serve | him so,| he takes | it ill.
LUCIANA
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Oh*, know | he is | the brid|le of | your will.
ADRIANA
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There's none | but ass|es will | be brid|led so.
LUCIANA
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Why*, head|strong liberty | is lashed | with woe:
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There's^noth|ing sit|uate und|er heav|en's eye,
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But hath | his bound | in earth,| in sea,| in
sky.
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The beasts,| the fish|es, and | the wing|ed fowls
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Are their / males' sub|jects*, and | at their |
controls:
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Men more divine,| the mast|ers of / all these,
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Lords of the | wide world, and wild | water|y
seas,
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Indued | with int|ellec|tual sense | and souls,
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Of more | preem|inence | than fish | and fowls,
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Are mast|ers to | their fe|males, and | their
lords:
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Then let | your will | attend | on their |
accords.
ADRIANA
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This serv|itude | makes you | to keep | unwed.
LUCIANA
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Not this,| but troub|les of | the mar|riage-bed.
ADRIANA
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But were you | wedded, you | would bear* some |
sway. (next few lines are dactyl)
LUCIANA
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Ere I learn^|love, I'll | practice | to obey.
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ADRIANA
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How if your | husband start*| some other | where?
LUCIANA
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Till he come^|home again*,| I would for|bear.
ADRIANA
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Patience | unmoved,| no marv|el though | she
pause,
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They can | be meek | that have | no oth|er cause:
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A wretch|ed soul | bruised with | adver|sity,
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We bid | be qui|et when | we hear | it cry.
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But were we burd|ened with / like weight | of
pain,
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As much,| or more,| would we | ourselves |
complain:
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So thou | that hast | no un|kind mate to grieve |
thee,
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With urg|ing help|less pa|tience wouldst |
relieve | me; (hex with prev)
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But if | thou live | to see | like^right |
bereft,
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This fool-|*begged^pa|tience in | thee will | be
left.
LUCIANA
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Well, I | will mar|ry one | day but | to try:
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Here* comes | your man,| now is | your hus|band
nigh.
[Enter DROMIO of Ephesus]
ADRIANA
Say, is your tardy master now at hand?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears can witness.
ADRIANA
Say, didst thou speak with him? Knowst thou his mind?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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Aye, aye, he told | his mind | upon | mine ear,
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Beshrew | his hand,| I scarce | could
und|erstand it.
LUCIANA
Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his blows; and withal so
doubtfully, that I could scarce understand them.
ADRIANA
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But say,| I prith|ee, is | he com|ing home?
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It seems | he hath / great care | to please
| his wife.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Why mistress, sure my master is horn-mad.
ADRIANA
Horn-mad, thou villain?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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I mean | not cuck|old-mad,
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But sure | he is / stark mad: (tri with
prev)
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When I | desired | him to / come home | to
dinner,
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He asked | me for | a thous|and marks | in gold:
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'Tis din|ner-time | quoth^I:| my gold,| quoth^he:
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Your meat | doth^burn,| quoth^I:| My gold |
quoth^he:
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Will you | come, quoth^|I: My gold,| quoth he:
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Where is the | thousand | marks I | gave thee |
villain?
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The pig | quoth^I,| is burned:| my gold,|
quoth^he:
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My mist|ress, sir,| quoth^I;| hang up thy |
mistress:
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I know*| not thy | mistress,| out on thy |
mistress.
LUCIANA
Quoth who?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
Quoth my master, I know quoth he, no house, no wife, no mistress: So that
my errand due unto my tongue, I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders:
for in conclusion, he did beat me there.
ADRIANA
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Go back | again,| thou slave,| and fetch | him
home.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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Go back | again,| and be / new beat|en home?
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For God's sake send | some oth|er mes|senger.
ADRIANA
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Back slave, or | I will break | thy pate |
across.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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And he will | bless that | cross with | other |
beating:
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Between | you, I | shall have | a ho|ly head.
ADRIANA
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Hence prating peas|ant, fetch | thy mast|er home.
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DROMIO OF EPHESUS
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Am I | so round | with you,| as you | with me,
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That like | a foot|ball you | do spurn | me thus:
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You spurn | me hence,| and he | will spurn | me
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If I | last in | this serv|ice, you | must case |
me in leath|er. (hex with prev)
[Exit]
LUCIANA
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Fie how | impa|tience low|reth in | your face.
ADRIANA
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His comp|any | must do | his min|ions grace,
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Whilst^I | at home | starve for | a mer|ry look:
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Hath^home|ly age | the allur|ing beaut|y took
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From my / poor cheek?| Then he | hath wast|ed it.
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Are my | discour|ses dull?| Barren | my wit,
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If vol|uble | and sharp | discourse | be marred,
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Unkind|ness blunts | it more | than mar|ble hard.
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Do their gay vest|ments his | affec|tions bait?
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That's not | my fault,| he's mast|er of | my
state.
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What ru|ins are | in me | that can | be found,
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By him | not ru|ined? Then | is he | the ground
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Of my | defea|tures. My | decay|ed fair,
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A sun|ny look | of his,| would soon | repair.
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But, too | unru|ly deer,| he breaks | the pale,
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And feeds | from home;| poor^I | am but | his
stale.
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Self^harm|ing jeal|ousy;| fie beat it hence.
ADRIANA
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Unfeel|ing fools | can* with | such^wrongs |
dispense:
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I know | his eye | doth hom|age oth|erwhere,
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Or else,| what lets | it but | he would | be
here?
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Sister,| you know | he prom|ised me | a chain,
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Would that | alone,| alone | he would | detain,
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So he would | keep fair quart|er with | his bed:
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I see | the jew|el best | ena|melled
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Will lose | his beaut|y: yet | the gold bides
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That oth|ers touch,| and of|ten touch|ing will,
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Where* gold | and no man | that hath | a name,
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By false|hood and | corrup|tion doth | it shame:
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Since^that | my beaut|y can|not please | his eye,
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I'll weep |(what's^left | away)| and weep|ing die.
LUCIANA
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How many | fond fools serve | mad* jeal|ousy?
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[Exeunt]