Being strumpeted by thy contagion. Keep, then, fair league and truce with thy true bed; Ant. S. Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not: As strange unto your town as to your talk; 150 Luc. Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you! When were you wont to use my sister thus? She sent for you by Dromie home to dinner. Ant. S. By Dromio? Dro. S. By me? Adr. By thee; and this thou didst return from him, 160 That he did buffet thee, and, in his blows, Dro. S. I, sir? I never saw her till this time. Dro. S. I never spake with her in all my life. Adr. How ill agrees it with your gravity To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, 170 Makes me with thy strength to communicate: Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion 180 Ant. S. To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme: Or sleep I now, and think I hear all this? I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy. Luc. Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner. 190 They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. Luc. Why pratest thou to thyself, and answer'st not? Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot! Dro. S. I am transformed, master, am not I? Ant. S. I think thou art in mind, and so am I. Dro. S. Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape. Dro. S. No, I am an ape. Luc. If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass. 'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be But I should know her as well as she knows me. Adr. Come, come, no longer will I be a fool, 200 Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day, Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter. Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised? Dro. S. Master, shall I be porter at the gate? 210 Adr. Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate. 219 Luc. Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late. ACT THIRD. Scene I. [Exeunt. Before the house of Antipholus of Ephesus. Enter Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Ephesus, Angelo, and Balthazar. Ant. E. Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all; And that to-morrow you will bring it home. 9 Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this? Dro. E. Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know; |