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S. Ant.

Ay, that’s my name.

Ang.

I know it well, sir. Lo here’s the chain.

I thought to have ta’en you at the Porpentine;

The chain unfinish’d made me stay thus long.

S. Ant.

What is your will that I shall do with this?

Ang.

What please yourself, sir; I have made it for you.

S. Ant.

Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not.

Ang.

Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.

Go home with it, and please your wife withal,

And soon at supper-time I’ll visit you,

And then receive my money for the chain.

S. Ant.

I pray you, sir, receive the money now,

For fear you ne’er see chain nor money more.

Ang.

You are a merry man, sir, fare you well.

Exit.

S. Ant.

What I should think of this, I cannot tell:

But this I think, there’s no man is so vain

That would refuse so fair an offer’d chain.

I see a man here needs not live by shifts,

When in the streets he meets such golden gifts.

I’ll to the mart and there for Dromio stay:

If any ship put out, then straight away.

Exit.

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