The Comedy of Errors


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But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale  
And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale.  
LUCIANA  
Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence!  
ADRIANA  
Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense.  
I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,  
Or else what lets it but he would be here?  
Sister, you know he promised me a chain;  
Would that alone, alone he would detain,  
So he would keep fair quarter with his bed!  
I see the jewel best enamelled  
Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still,  
That others touch, and often touching will  
Wear gold: and no man that hath a name,  
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.  
Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,  
I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die.  
LUCIANA  
How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!  
Exeunt  
SCENE II. A public place.  
Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse  
ANTIPHOLUS  
OF SYRACUSE  
The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up  
Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave  
Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out  
By computation and mine host's report.  
I could not speak with Dromio since at first  
I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes.  
Enter DROMIO of Syracuse  
How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd?  
As you love strokes, so jest with me again.  
You know no Centaur? you received no gold?  
Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?  
My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,  
That thus so madly thou didst answer me?  
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE  
What answer, sir? when spake I such a word?  
ANTIPHOLUS  
OF SYRACUSE  
Even now, even here, not half an hour since.  
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE  


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