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Tell her I am arrested in the street,
And that shall bail me. Hie thee, slave. Be gone.
On, officer, to prison, till it come.

Exeunt [all but Dromio of Syracuse].

DROMIO S.

To Adriana. That is where we dined,
Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband. [110]
She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
Thither I must, although against my will;
For servants must their masters’ minds fulfil.

Exit.

Scene II IT

Enter Adriana and Luciana.

ADRIANA

Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?
Might’st thou perceive austerely in his eye
That he did plead in earnest, yea or no?
Looked he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?
What observation mad’st thou in this case [5]
Of his heart’s meteors tilting in his face?

LUCIANA

First, he denied you had in him no right.

ADRIANA

He meant he did me none, the more my spite.

LUCIANA

Then swore he that he was a stranger here.

ADRIANA

And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were. [10]

LUCIANA

Then pleaded I for you.