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Enter Dromio [of] Syracusa from the bay.

S. Dro.

Master, there’s a bark of Epidamium

That stays but till her owner comes aboard,

And then, sir, she bears away. Our fraughtage, sir,

I have convey’d aboard, and I have bought

The oil, the balsamum, and aqua-vitae.

The ship is in her trim, the merry wind

Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all

But for their owner, master, and yourself.

E. Ant.

How now? a madman? Why, thou peevish sheep,

What ship of Epidamium stays for me?

S. Dro.

A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.

E. Ant.

Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope,

And told thee to what purpose and what end.

S. Dro.

You sent me for a rope’s end as soon:

You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.

E. Ant.

I will debate this matter at more leisure,

And teach your ears to list me with more heed.

To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:

Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk

That’s cover’d o’er with Turkish tapestry

There is a purse of ducats; let her send it.

Tell her I am arrested in the street,