Page 1685 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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It would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold.

     ANTIPHOLUS E.

     Go fetch me something. I’ll break ope the gate.

     DROMIO S.

[within]
     Break any breaking here, and I’ll break your knave’s pate.

     DROMIO E.

     A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind; [75]
     Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.

     DROMIO S.

[within]
     It seems thou wantest breaking. Out upon thee, hind!

     DROMIO E.

     Here’s too much ‘Out upon thee.’ I pray thee, let me in.

     DROMIO S.

[within]
     Ay, when fowls have no feathers, and fish have no fin.

     ANTIPHOLUS E.

     Well, I’ll break in. Go borrow me a crow. [80]

     DROMIO E.

     A crow without feather, master? Mean you so?
     For a fish without a fin, there’s a fowl without a feather.
     If a crow help us in, sirrah, we’ll pluck a crow together.

     ANTIPHOLUS E.

     Go, get thee gone. Fetch me an iron crow.

     BALT HASAR

     Have patience, sir. O, let it not be so. [85]
     Herein you war against your reputation,
     And draw within the compass of suspect
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