{"product_id":"the-comedy-of-errors-isbn-9780143132233","title":"The Comedy of Errors","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. 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Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marlon James, author of \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eMarjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA. R.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBraunmuller \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (\u003ci\u003eKing John\u003c\/i\u003e) and Cambridge (\u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Orgel \u003c\/b\u003eis the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include \u003ci\u003eImagining Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Authentic Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImpersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Power\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ¥    I.1 Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with the Merchant        [Egeon] of Syracuse, Jailer, and other Attendants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e egeon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And by the doom of death end woes and all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e duke \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am not partial to infringe our laws.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The enmity and discord which of late\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Have sealed his rigorous statutes with their bloods,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Excludes all pity from our threat'ning looks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For since the mortal and intestine jars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It hath in solemn synods been decreed,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To admit no traffic to our adverse towns:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nay more, if any born at Ephesus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Be seen at Syracusian marts and fairs;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Again, if any Syracusian born\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unless a thousand marks be levid,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To quit the penalty and to ransom him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Therefore, by law thou art condemned to die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e egeon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My woes end likewise with the evening sun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e duke \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why thou departed'st from thy native home,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And for what cause thou cam'st to Ephesus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e egeon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A heavier task could not have been imposed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet that the world may witness that my end\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Was wrought by nature, not by vile offense,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'll utter what my sorrow gives me leave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Syracusa was I born, and wed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unto a woman, happy but for me,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And by me, had not our hap been bad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With her I lived in joy: our wealth increased\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By prosperous voyages I often made\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To Epidamnum; till my factor's death,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And the great care of goods at random left,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From whom my absence was not six months old,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before herself (almost at fainting under\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The pleasing punishment that women bear)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Had made provision for her following me,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And soon and safe arrivd where I was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There had she not been long but she became\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A joyful mother of two goodly sons;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And, which was strange, the one so like the other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As could not be distinguished but by names.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That very hour, and in the selfsame inn,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A mean woman was deliverd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of such a burden male, twins both alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Those-for their parents were exceeding poor-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I bought, and brought up to attend my sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Made daily motions for our home return.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We came aboard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A league from Epidamnum had we sailed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before the always wind-obeying deep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gave any tragic instance of our harm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But longer did we not retain much hope;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For what obscurd light the heavens did grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Did but convey unto our fearful minds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A doubtful warrant of immediate death;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which, though myself would gladly have embraced,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Weeping before for what she saw must come,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That mourned for fashion, ignorant what to fear,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Forced me to seek delays for them and me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And this it was, for other means was none:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sailors sought for safety by our boat,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My wife, more careful for the latter-born,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Had fastened him unto a small spare mast,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Such as seafaring men provide for storms;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To him one of the other twins was bound,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whilst I had been like heedful of the other. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The children thus disposed, my wife and I, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fixed,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fastened ourselves at either end the mast,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And floating straight, obedient to the stream,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At length the sun, gazing upon the earth, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dispersed those vapors that offended us,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And by the benefit of his wishd light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The seas waxed calm, and we discoverd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two ships from far, making amain to us:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But ere they came-O let me say no more!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gather the sequel by that went before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e duke \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For we may pity, though not pardon thee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e egeon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e O, had the gods done so, I had not now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Worthily termed them merciless to us!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We were encountered by a mighty rock,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which being violently borne upon,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So that, in this unjust divorce of us,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fortune had left to both of us alike,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What to delight in, what to sorrow for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Her part, poor soul, seeming as burdend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With lesser weight, but not with lesser woe,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Was carried with more speed before the wind,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And in our sight they three were taken up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At length another ship had seized on us,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And knowing whom it was their hap to save,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And would have reft the fishers of their prey,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Had not their bark been very slow of sail;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And therefore homeward did they bend their course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thus have you heard me severed from my bliss,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That by misfortunes was my life prolonged,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To tell sad stories of my own mishaps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e duke \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Do me the favor to dilate at full,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What have befall'n of them and thee till now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e egeon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At eighteen years became inquisitive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After his brother; and importuned me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That his attendant-so his case was like,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reft of his brother, but retained his name-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Might bear him company in the quest of him;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whom whilst I labored of a love to see,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five summers have I spent in farthest Greece,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And coasting homeward, came to Ephesus,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Or that or any place that harbors men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But here must end the story of my life;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And happy were I in my timely death,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Could all my travels warrant me they live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e duke \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hapless Egeon, whom the fates have marked\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To bear the extremity of dire mishap!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now trust me, were it not against our laws,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which princes, would they, may not disannul,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My soul should sue as advocate for thee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But though thou art adjudgd to the death,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And passd sentence may not be recalled\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But to our honor's great disparagement,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet will I favor thee in what I can.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To seek thy life by beneficial help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And live; if no, then thou art doomed to die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jailer, take him to thy custody.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e jailer I will, my lord.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e egeon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But to procrastinate his lifeless end.Exeunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ¥    I.2 Enter Antipholus [of Syracuse], a Merchant,        and Dromio [of Syracuse].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e merchant \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This very day a Syracusian merchant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Is apprehended for arrival here,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And not being able to buy out his life,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e According to the statute of the town,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is your money that I had to keep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Within this hour it will be dinnertime;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Till that, I'll view the manners of the town,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And then return and sleep within mine inn,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For with long travel I am stiff and weary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Get thee away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many a man would take you at your word,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And go indeed, having so good a mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exit Dromio [of Syracuse].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When I am dull with care and melancholy,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lightens my humor with his merry jests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What, will you walk with me about the town,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And then go to my inn and dine with me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e merchant \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am invited, sir, to certain merchants,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of whom I hope to make much benefit;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And afterward consort you till bedtime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My present business calls me from you now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Farewell till then. I will go lose myself,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And wander up and down to view the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e merchant \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sir, I commend you to your own content.Exit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He that commends me to mine own content,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Commends me to the thing I cannot get.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I to the world am like a drop of water\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That in the ocean seeks another drop,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Who falling there to find his fellow forth,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So I, to find a mother and a brother,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enter Dromio of Ephesus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here comes the almanac of my true date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What now? How chance thou art returned so soon?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Returned so soon! rather approached too late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My mistress made it one upon my cheek:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She is so hot because the meat is cold;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The meat is cold because you come not home;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You come not home because you have no stomach;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You have no stomach, having broke your fast;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Are penitent for your default today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stop in your wind, sir; tell me this, I pray:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where have you left the money that I gave you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e O, sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am not in a sportive humor now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We being strangers here, how dar'st thou trust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So great a charge from thine own custody?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I from my mistress come to you in post;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I return, I shall be post indeed,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For she will score your fault upon my pate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And strike you home without a messenger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reserve them till a merrier hour than this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To me, sir? Why, you gave no gold to me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My charge was but to fetch you from the mart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My mistress and her sister stays for you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now, as I am a Christian, answer me,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In what safe place you have bestowed my money;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That stands on tricks when I am undisposed:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I have some marks of yours upon my pate,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But not a thousand marks between you both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I should pay your worship those again,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Perchance you will not bear them patiently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thy mistress' marks? What mistress, slave, hast thou?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And prays that you will hie you home to dinner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What! wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e [Strikes him.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dromio e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What mean you, sir? For God's sake, hold your hands!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nay, an you will not, sir, I'll take my heels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exit Dromio of Ephesus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e antipholus s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Upon my life, by some device or other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The villain is o'erraught of all my money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They say this town is full of cozenage:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Soul-killing witches that deform the body,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Disguisd cheaters, prating mountebanks,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And many suchlike liberties of sin:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'll to the Centaur to go seek this slave;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I greatly fear my money is not safe.Exit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ¥    II.1 Enter Adriana, wife to Antipholus [of Ephesus], with      Luciana, her sister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e adriana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Neither my husband nor the slave returned,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That in such haste I sent to seek his master?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e luciana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Good sister, let us dine and never fret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A man is master of his liberty:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Time is their master, and when they see time,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They'll go or come; if so, be patient, sister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e adriana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why should their liberty than ours be more?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e luciana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Because their business still lies out o' door.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e adriana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e luciana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e O, know he is the bridle of your will.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e adriana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There's none but asses will be bridled so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e luciana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There's nothing situate under heaven's eye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The beasts, the fishes, and the wingd fowls,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Are their males' subjects, and at their controls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Men, more divine, the masters of all these,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Endued with intellectual sense and souls,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of more preeminence than fish and fowls,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Are masters to their females, and their lords:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Then let your will attend on their accords.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e adriana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This servitude makes you to keep unwed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e luciana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Not this, but troubles of the marriage bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e adriana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But were you wedded, you would bear some sway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e luciana \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ere I learn love, I'll practice to obey.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302028431589,"sku":"NP9780143132233","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143132233.jpg?v=1767738755","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-comedy-of-errors-isbn-9780143132233","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}