Comedy Of Errors

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope;
And told thee to what purpose and what end.

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE


You sent me for a rope's end as soon:
You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


I will debate this matter at more leisure
And teach your ears to list me with more heed.
To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:
Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk
That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry,
There is a purse of ducats; let her send it:
Tell her I am arrested in the street
And that shall bail me; hie thee, slave, be gone!
On, officer, to prison till it come.

Exeunt Second Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and Antipholus of Ephesus

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE


To Adriana! that is where we dined,
Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband:
She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
Thither I must, although against my will,
For servants must their masters' minds fulfil.

Exit

 

[Guru]

SCENE II. The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.



Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?
Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye
That he did plead in earnest? yea or no?
Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?
What observation madest thou in this case
Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


First he denied you had in him no right.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


He meant he did me none; the more my spite.

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


Then swore he that he was a stranger here.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


Then pleaded I for you.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


And what said he?

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


With words that in an honest suit might move.
First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Didst speak him fair?

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


Have patience, I beseech.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


Who would be jealous then of such a one?
No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Ah, but I think him better than I say,
And yet would herein others' eyes were worse.
Far from her nest the lapwing cries away:
My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.

Enter DROMIO of Syracuse

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE


Here! go; the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste.

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


How hast thou lost thy breath?

 

[RainbowBright]

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Jees thisi sfun.

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE


By running fast.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well?