Page 1695 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

ACT IV IT

Scene I IT

Enter a [Second] merchant, [Angelo the] goldsmith, and an officer.

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, [5]
Or I’ll attach you by this officer.

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 [10]
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.

Enter Antipholus of Ephesus [and] Dromio [of Ephesus] from the
Courtesan’s.

OFFICER

That labour may you save. See where he comes.

ANTIPHOLUS E.

While I go to the goldsmith’s house, go thou [15]
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. [20]