DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war against her hair.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
Where England?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no whiteness in them.
But I guess it stood in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between
France and it.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
Where Spain?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
Where America, the Indies?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
O, sir, upon her nose, all o’er-embellished with rubies, carbuncles,
sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain, who
sent whole armadoes of carracks to be ballast at her nose.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
O, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude: this drudge or diviner laid
claim to me, called me Dromio, swore I was assured to her, told me what
privy marks I had about me, as the mark of my shoulder, the mole in my
neck, the great wart on my left arm, that I, amazed, ran from her as a
witch. And, I think, if my breast had not been made of faith, and my
heart of steel, she had transformed me to a curtal dog, and made me
turn i’ the wheel.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
Go, hie thee presently, post to the road;
And if the wind blow any way from shore,
I will not harbour in this town tonight.
If any bark put forth, come to the mart,
Where I will walk till thou return to me.
If everyone knows us, and we know none,
’Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
As from a bear a man would run for life,
So fly I from her that would be my wife.
[_Exit._]
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
There’s none but witches do inhabit here,
And therefore ’tis high time that I were hence.
She that doth call me husband, even my soul
Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,
Possess’d with such a gentle sovereign grace,
Of such enchanting presence and discourse,
Hath almost made me traitor to myself.
But lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,
I’ll stop mine ears against the mermaid’s song.
Enter Angelo with the chain.
ANGELO.
Master Antipholus.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
Ay, that’s my name.
ANGELO.
I know it well, sir. Lo, here is the chain;
I thought to have ta’en you at the Porpentine,
The chain unfinish’d made me stay thus long.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
What is your will that I shall do with this?
ANGELO.
What please yourself, sir; I have made it for you.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not.
ANGELO.
Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.
Go home with it, and please your wife withal,
And soon at supper-time I’ll visit you,
And then receive my money for the chain.
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE.
I pray you, sir, receive the money now,
For fear you ne’er see chain nor money more.
ANGELO.
You are a merry man, sir; fare you well.
[_Exit._]
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