Since that my beauty cannot please his eye, I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die. Luc. How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! [Exeunt. Scene II. A public place. Enter Antipholus of Syracuse. Ant. S. The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up Enter Dromio of Syracuse. How now, sir! is your merry humour alter'd? My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad, Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me. Ant. S. Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt, And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner; For which, I hope, thou felt'st I was displeased. Dro. S. I am glad to see you in this merry vein : What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me. Ant. S. Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth? ΙΟ 20 Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that. [Beating him. Dro. S. Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is ear nest: Upon what bargain do you give it me? Ant. S. Because that I familiarly sometimes Do use you for my fool, and chat with you, Dro. S. Sconce call you it? so you would leave bat- my wit in my shoulders. But, I pray, sir, why Ant. S. Dost thou not know? Dro. S. Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten. Ant. S. Shall I tell you why? 40 Dro. S. Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore. Ant. S. Why, first,-for flouting me; and then, where fore, For urging it the second time to me. Dro. S. Was there ever any man thus beaten out of sea son, When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? Well, sir, I thank you. Ant. S. Thank me, sir! for what? 50 Dro. S. Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing. Ant. S. I'll make you amends next, to give you noth. Dro. S. No, sir: I think the meat wants that I have. Dro. S. Basting. Ant. S. Well, sir, then 'twill be dry. Dro. S. If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it. Ant. S. Your reason? Dro. S. Lest it make you choleric, and purchase me another dry basting. Ant. S. Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a time for all things. Dro. S. I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric. Ant. S. By what rule, sir? Dro. S. Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of father Time himself. Ant. S. Let's hear it. Dro. S. There's no time for a man to recover his Ant. S. May he not do it by fine and recovery? Ant. S. Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, 60 70 Dro. S. Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts and what he hath scanted men in hair, 80 he hath given them in wit. Ant. S. Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit. Dro. S. Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair. Ant. S. Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit. Dro. S. The plainer dealer, the sooner lost: yet he loseth it in a kind of jollity. Ant. S. For what reason? Dro. S. For two; and sound ones too. Ant. S. Nay, not sound, I pray you. Dro. S. Sure ones, then. Ant. S. Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing. Dro. S. Certain ones, then. Ant. S. Name them. Dro. S. The one, to save the money that he spends in tiring; the other, that at dinner they should not drop in his porridge. 90 Ant. S. You would all this time have proved there is 100 no time for all things. Dro. S. Marry, and did, sir; namely, no time to recover hair lost by nature. Ant. S. But your reason was not substantial, why there is no time to recover. Dro. S. Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald, and therefore to the world's end will have bald followers. Ant. S. I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion: But, soft! who wafts us yonder? Enter Adriana and Luciana. Adr. Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown: The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow That never touch well welcome to thy hand, Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved to thee. How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it, Thyself I call it, being strange to me, Am better than thy dear selfs better part. As take from me thyself, and not me too. 121 130 I know thou canst; and therefore see thou do it. 140 I am possess'd with an adulterate blot; My blood is mingled with the crime of lust: For if we two be one, and thou play false, I do digest the poison of thy flesh, |