No Fear Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 4, Scene 2, Page 3
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The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands;
A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well,
One that before the judgment carries poor souls to hell.
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the opposite direction of its prey, yet can follow the scent of the hunt. A man who puts people away before the verdict is announced.
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ADRIANA
Why, man, what is the matter?
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ADRIANA
Speak, man, what’s the matter?
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I do not know the matter. He is ’rested on the case.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I don’t know what the matter is, but he’s been arrested for it.
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ADRIANA
What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.
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ADRIANA
What? He’s been arrested? Tell me, who had him arrested?
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I know not at whose suit he is arrested well,
But he’s in a suit of buff which ’rested him; that can I tell.
Will you send him, mistress, redemption—the money in his
desk?
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
I don’t know who had him arrested, but the man that arrested him was in a suit of leather. Mistress, will you send him bail? The money in the desk?
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ADRIANA
Go fetch it, sister.
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ADRIANA
Get it, sister.
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Exit LUCIANA
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This I wonder at,
That he, unknown to me, should be in debt.
Tell me, was he arrested on a band?
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I don’t understand it. How could he be in debt without me knowing it? Tell me, was he arrested because of a band
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Not on a band, but on a stronger thing:
A chain, a chain. Do you not hear it ring?
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Not for a band, but for something stronger: a necklace, a necklace! Don’t you hear it ring?
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ADRIANA
What, the chain?
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ADRIANA
What, the necklace?
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No, no, the bell. 'Tis time that I were gone.
It was two ere I left him, and now the clock strikes one.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
No, no, the bell. It’s time for me to go. It was two o'clock when I left him, and now it’s one.
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ADRIANA
The hours come back. That did I never hear.
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ADRIANA
Time’s running backward? I’ve never heard of that.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant, he turns back for
very fear.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Oh, sure. When an hour meets a cop, it turns and runs in fear.
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