No Fear Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 1
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Enter SECOND MERCHANT, ANGELO and an OFFICER
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The SECOND MERCHANT, ANGELO,and an OFFICER enter. |
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SECOND MERCHANT
You know since Pentecost the sum is due,
And since I have not much importuned you,
Nor now I had not, but that I am bound
To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage.
Therefore make present satisfaction,
Or I’ll attach you by this officer.
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SECOND MERCHANT
You’ve owed me this money since the Pentecost holiday. I haven’t pressed you for it, and I wouldn’t now except that I’m going to Persia and I need money for the trip. So pay me now, or I’ll have this officer arrest you.
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ANGELO
Even just the sum that I do owe to you
Is growing to me by Antipholus.
And in the instant that I met with you,
He had of me a chain. At five o'clock
I shall receive the money for the same.
Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,
I will discharge my bond and thank you too.
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ANGELO
Antipholus owes me the exact amount that I owe you. Just before I ran into you, I gave him a necklace. At five o'clock he’s going to pay me for it. Please, come to his house with me. I’ll pay what I owe you then and say thank you as well.
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Enter ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS and DROMIO OF EPHESUS from the COURTESAN'S house |
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS and DROMIO OF EPHESUS enter from the COURTESAN'S house. |
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COURTESAN'S OFFICER
That labor may you save. See where he comes.
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OFFICER
He saves you the trouble: look, here he comes.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
While I go to the goldsmith’s house, go thou
And buy a rope’s end. That will I bestow
Among my wife and her confederates
For locking me out of my doors by day.
But soft. I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone.
Buy thou a rope, and bring it home to me.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS
(to DROMIO) I’m going to the jeweler’s house. You go buy a piece of rope—I’ll whip my wife and her cohorts for locking me out of my own house. Wait a minute! I see the jeweler. Go, be gone with you. Buy a rope and bring it to me.
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