_Cour._ Sir, I must have that diamond from you. 390
_Ant. E._ There, take it; and much thanks for my good cheer.
_Abb._ Renowned Duke, vouchsafe to take the pains
To go with us into the abbey here,
And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes;--
And all that are assembled in this place, 395
That by this sympathized one day’s error
Have suffer’d wrong, go keep us company,
And we shall make full satisfaction.--
Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail
Of you, my sons; and till this present hour 400
My heavy burthen ne’er delivered.
The Duke, my husband, and my children both,
And you the calendars of their nativity,
Go to a gossips’ feast, and go with me;
After so long grief, such nativity! 405
_Duke._ With all my heart, I’ll gossip at this feast.
[_Exeunt all but Ant. S., Ant. E., Dro. S., and Dro. E._
_Dro. S._ Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship-board?
_Ant. E._ Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark’d?
_Dro. S._ Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur.
_Ant. S._ He speaks to me. --I am your master, Dromio: 410
Come, go with us; we’ll look to that anon:
Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him.
[_Exeunt Ant. S. and Ant. E._
_Dro. S._ There is a fat friend at your master’s house,
That kitchen’d me for you to-day at dinner:
She now shall be my sister, not my wife. 415
_Dro. E._ Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
Will you walk in to see their gossiping?
_Dro. S._ Not I, sir; you are my elder.
_Dro. E._ That’s a question: how shall we try it? 420
_Dro. S._ We’ll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead
thou first.
_Dro. E._ Nay, then, thus:--
We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.
[_Exeunt._
NOTES: V, 1.
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