There's nothing, situate under heaven's eye, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, 20 Adr. This servitude makes you to keep unwed. sway. Luc. Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey. 29 Adr. How if your husband start some other where? They can be meek, that have no other cause. But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, Luc. Well, I will marry one day, but to try;— 40 Enter Enter DROMIO of Ephesus. Adr. Say, is your tardy master now at hand? E. Dro. Nay, he is at two hands with me, and that my two ears can witness. Adr. Say, did'st thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind? E. Dro. Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear: Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it. 50 Luc. Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning? E. Dro. Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his blows; and withal so doubtfully, that I could scarce understand them. Adr. But say, I pr'ythee, is he coming home? It seems, he hath great care to please his wife. E. Dro. Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad. Adr. Horn-mad, thou villain? E. Dro. I mean not cuckold-mad; but, sure, he's stark mad: When I desir'd him to come home to dinner,, Luc. Quoth who? C 60 70 E. Dro. Quoth my master: I know, quoth he, no house, no wife, no mistress;— I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders; Adr. Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home. E. Dro. Go back again, and be new beaten home? For God's sake, send some other messenger. Adr. Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across. E. Dro. And he will bless that cross with other beating: Between you I shall have a holy head. 80 Adr. Hence, prating peasant; fetch thy master home. E. Dro. Am I so round with you, as you with me, That like a foot-ball you do spurn me thus ? You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither : If I last in this service, you must case me in leather. 90 [Exit. Luc.. Fye, how impatience lowreth in your face! Adr. His company must do his minions grace, Whilst I at home starve for a merry look. Hath homely age the alluring beauty took From my poor cheek? then, he hath wasted it : Are my discourses dull? barren my wit? If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd, Unkindness blunts it, more than marble hard. Do their gay vestments his affections bait? That's not my fault, he's master of my state : 100 What ruins are in me, that can be found I know his eye doth homage other-where; Or else, what lets it but he would be here ? : Wear gold and so no man, that hath a name, 110 [Exeunt. SCENE II. The Street. Enter ANTIPHOLIS of Syracuse. Ant. The gold, I gave to Dromio, is laid up Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out. Enter DROMIO of Syracuse. How now, sir? is your merry humour alter’d? 120 S. Dro. What answer, sir? when spake I such a word? 130 Ant. Even now, even here, not half an hour since. S. Dro. I did not see you since you sent me hence, Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me. Ant. Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt; S. Dro. I am glad to see you in this merry vein: What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me. Ant. Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth? Think'st thou, I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that. [Beats DROMIO. S. Dro. Hold, sir, for God's sake: now your jest is earnest : 141 Upon what bargain do you give it me? Ant. Because that I familiarly sometimes Do use you for my fool, and chat with you, Your |