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[Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer]
SECOND MERCHANT
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You know | since Pent|ecost | the sum | is due,
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And since | I have | not much | impor/tuned you,
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Nor now | I had / not, but | that I | am bound
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To Per|sia, and / want guil|ders for my | voyage:
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Therefore make | present | satis|faction,
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Or I'll | attach | you by | this of|ficer.
ANGELO
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Even | just the | sum that | I do | owe to you,
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Is grow|ing to / me by | Antiph|olus,
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And in | the inst|ant that | I met | with you,
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He had | of me | a chain,| at five | o'clock
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I shall | receive | the mon|ey for | the same:
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Pleaseth | you walk | with me | down to | his
house,
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I will | discharge | my bond,| and thank | you
too.
[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus from the courtezan's]
OFFICER
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That lab|or may | you save:| see where | he
comes.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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While I | go to the | goldsmith's house,| go thou
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And buy | a rope's | end, that / will I | bestow
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Among | my wife,| and her | confed|erates,
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For lock|ing me | out of | my doors | by day:
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But soft | I see | the gold|smith*; get | thee
gone,
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Buy thou | a rope,| and bring | it home | to me.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS
I buy a thousand pound a year, I buy a rope.
[Exit]
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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A man | is well | holp^up | that trusts | to you,
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I prom|ised | your pres|ence, and | the chain,
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But neith|er chain | nor gold|smith* came | to
me:
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Belike | you thought | our love | would last |
too* long
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If it were | chained to|gether:| and therefore |
came^not.
ANGELO
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Saving | your mer|ry hum|or: here's | the note
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How much | your chain | weighs to the | utmost
carat,
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The fine|ness of the | gold, and | chargeful |
fashion,
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Which doth | amount | to three | odd^duc|ats more
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Than I | stand debt/ed to | this gent|leman,
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I pray | you see | him pres|ently | discharged,
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For he | is bound | to sea, and stays | but for
it.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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I am not | furnished | with the | present |
money:
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Besides | I have | some bus|iness in | the town,
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Good* sign|ior take | the strang|er to | my
house,
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And with | you take | the chain,| and bid | my
wife
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Disburse | the sum,| on the | receipt | thereof,
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Perchance | I will | be there | as soon | as you.
ANGELO
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Then you | will bring | the chain | to her |
yourself.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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No* bear it | with you,| lest^I | come^not time |
enough.
ANGELO
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Well sir,| I will?| Have you the | chain a|bout
you?
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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And if | I have not | sir, I | hope you have:
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Or else | you may | return | without | your mon||ey.
ANGELO
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Nay* come | I pray | you sir,| give me | the
chain:
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Both^wind | and tide | stays for | this
gent|leman,
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And I | to blame | have held | him here | too
long.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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Good Lord,| you use | this dal|liance to | excuse
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Your breach | of prom|ise to | the Por|pentine,
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I should | have chid | you for | not bring|ing
it,
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But like | a shrew | you first | begin | to
brawl.
SECOND MERCHANT
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The hour | steals^on,| I pray | you sir |
dispatch.
ANGELO
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You hear | how he | impor|tunes me,| the chain.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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Why give it | to my | wife, and | fetch your |
money.
ANGELO
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Come, come, you | know I | gave it | you
even now.
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Either | send the | chain, or | send me | by some
| token. (hex with prev)
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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Fie, now | you run | this hum|or out | of breath,
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Come where's the chain,| I pray | you let | me
see it.
SECOND MERCHANT
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My bus|iness can|not brook | this dal|liance,
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Good sir | say, wheth/er you'll | answer me,| or
no:
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If not,| I'll leave | him to | the of|ficer.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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I ans|wer you?| What should | I ans|wer you.
ANGELO
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The mon|ey that | you owe | me for | the chain.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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I owe | you none,| till I | receive | the chain.
ANGELO
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You know | I gave | it you | half an hour since.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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You gave | me none,| you wrong | me much | to say
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ANGELO
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You wrong | me more | sir in | deny|ing it.
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Consid|er how | it stands | upon | my credit.
SECOND MERCHANT
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Well^of|ficer,| arrest | him at | my suit.
OFFICER
I do, and charge you in the duke's name to obey me.
ANGELO
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This touch|es me | in rep|uta|tion.
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Either | consent | to pay | this sum | for me,
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Or I | attach | you by | this of|ficer.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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Consent | to pay | thee that | I nev|er had:
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Arrest | me, fool|ish fel|low, if | thou darst.
ANGELO
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Here is | thy fee,| arrest | him of|ficer.
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I would | not spare | my broth|er in | this case,
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If he | should scorn | me so | appar|ently.
OFFICER
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I do | arrest | you sir,| you hear | the suit.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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I do | obey | thee, till | I give | thee bail.
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But sir|rah, you | shall buy | this sport | as
dear,
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As all | the metal | in your | shop will | answer.
ANGELO
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Sir, sir, I | shall have law | in Eph|esus,
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To your | noto|rious shame,| I doubt | it not.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
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Master,| there's a | bark of | Epi|damium,
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That stays | but^till | her own|er comes |
aboard,
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And then | sir she bears | away.| Our fraught|age
sir,
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I have | conveyed | aboard,| and I | have bought
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The oil,| the bal|samum,| and a|qua-vitae.
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The ship | is in | her trim,| the mer|ry wind
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Blows^fair | from land:| they stay | for nought |
at all,
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But for | their own|er, mast|er, and | yourself.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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How now?| A mad|man*? Why | thou peev|ish sheep
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What ship | of Ep|ida|mium stays | for me.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
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A ship | you sent | me to,| to hire | waftage.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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Thou drunk|en slave,| I sent | thee for | a rope,
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And told | thee to / what pur|pose, and | what
end.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
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You sent | me for | a rope's | end as | soon,
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You sent | me to | the bay | sir, for | a bark.
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
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I will de|bate this | matter | at more | leisure
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And teach | your ears | to list | me with / more
heed:
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To Ad|rian|a vil|lain hie | thee straight:
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Give her | this key,| and tell | her in | the
desk
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That's cov|ered ore | with Turk|ish tap|estry,
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There is a | purse of | ducats,| let her | send
it:
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Tell her | I am | arrest|ed in | the street,
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And that | shall bail | me: hie | thee slave,| be
gone.
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On^of|ficer | to pris|on, till | it come.
[Exeunt Second Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and Antipholus of Ephesus]
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
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To Ad|rian|a, that | is where | we dined,
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Where Dow|sabel | did claim | me for her |
husband,
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She is too*| big I | hope for | me to | compass,
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Thither | I must,| although | against | my will:
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For serv|ants must | their mast|ers' minds | fulfill.
[Exit]