No Fear Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 4, Page 8
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COURTESAN
Whenas your husband all in rage today
Came to my house and took away my ring,
The ring I saw upon his finger now,
Straight after did I meet him with a chain.
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COURTESAN
Today your husband came to my place, completely furious. He took my ring, which I just saw on his finger, by the way. Right after that, I saw him with a necklace.
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ADRIANA
It may be so, but I did never see it.—
Come, jailer, bring me where the goldsmith is.
I long to know the truth hereof at large.
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ADRIANA
Maybe so, but I never saw it. Jailer, bring me to the jeweler. I need to hear the truth about all this.
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Enter ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE with his rapier drawn and DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE enters with his sword drawn, followed by DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
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LUCIANA
God for Thy mercy, they are loose again!
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LUCIANA
God have mercy on us! They broke loose!
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ADRIANA
And come with naked swords. Let’s call more help
To have them bound again.
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ADRIANA
And they’ve got their swords unsheathed! Let’s call for help and get them tied up again!
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OFFICER
Away! They’ll kill us.
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OFFICER
Let’s get out of here! They’ll kill us!
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Run all out as fast as may be, frighted. |
Frightened, ADRIANA, LUCIANA,the OFFICER, and the COURTESAN run offstage as fast as they can. |
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
I see these witches are afraid of swords.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
It looks like these witches are scared of swords.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
She that would be your wife now ran from you.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
The one who claims to be your wife just ran away from you.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Come to the Centaur. Fetch our stuff from thence.
I long that we were safe and sound aboard.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Go to the Centaur and get our stuff. I wish we were safely on board our ship already.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Faith, stay here this night. They will surely do us no harm.
You saw they speak us fair, give us gold. Methinks they are
such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Look, let’s stay here tonight. Nobody will hurt us. You see how kind everyone is to us, how they just hand us gold. I think this country is so kind that if it weren’t for
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