Ang. Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer;-
I would not spare my brother in this case,
If he should scorn me so apparently.

Off. I do arrest you, sir; you hear the suit.
Ant. E. I do obey thee, till I give thee bail:-
But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear
As all the metal in your shop will answer.
Ang. Sir, sir, I shall have law in Ephesus,
To your notorious shame, I doubt it not.

Enter DROMIO of Syracuse.

Dro. S. Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum,
That stays but till her owner comes aboard,
And then, sir, bears away: our fraughtage, sir,
I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought
The oil, the balsamum, and aqua-vitæ.

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.

Ant. E. How now! a madman? Why thou peevish

sheep,

What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?

Dro. S. A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage. Ant. E. Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope; And told thee to what purpose, and what end.

Dro. S. You sent me, sir, for a rope's-end as soon:

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

Ant. E. I will debate this matter at more leisure,
And teach your ears to listen 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,

And that shall bail me: hie thee, slave; be gone.
On, officer, to prison till it come.

[Exeunt Merchant, ANGELO, Officer, and ANT. E. Dro. S. To Adriana! that is where we din'd, Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband:

g peevishi. e. Silly.

She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.
Thither I must, although against my will,
For servants must their masters' minds fulfil.

SCENE II.

The same.

Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA.

Adr. Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?
Might'st thou perceive austerely in his eye
That he did plead in earnest, yea or no?

Look'd he or red, or pale; or sad, or merrily?
What observation mad'st thou in this case,
Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?h

[Exit.

Luc. First, he denied you had in him no right.
Adr. He meant, he did me none; the more my spite.
Luc. Then swore he, that he was a stranger here.
Adr. And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.
Luc. Then pleaded I for you.

Adr.

And what said he? Luc. That love I begg'd for you, he begg'd of me. Adr. With what persuasion did he tempt thy love? Luc. With words, that in an honest suit might move. First, he did praise my beauty; then, my speech. Adr. Did'st speak him fair?

Luc.

Have patience, I beseech.

Adr. I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;

My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

He is deform'd, crooked, old, and sere,i

Ill-fac'd, worse-bodied, shapeless every where ;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

Luc. Who would be jealous then of such a one?

No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone.

h

meteors tilting in his face?] Alluding to those meteors in the sky, which have the appearance of lines of armies meeting in the shock. To this appearance he compares civil wars in another place, King Henry IV, SC. 1.-WARBURTON.

i

sere,] That is, dry, withered.-JOHNSON.

par. 1.

k Stigmatical in making,] That is, marked or stigmatized by nature with deformity, as a token of his vicious disposition.JOHNSON.

Adr. Ah! but I think him better than I say,

And yet would herein others' eyes were worse: Far from her nest the lapwing cries away;

My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.

Enter DROMIO of Syracuse.

Dro. S. Here, go; the desk, the purse; sweet now, make haste.

Luc. How hast thou lost thy breath?

Dro. S. By running fast. Adr. Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well? Dro. S. No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell. A devil in an everlasting garment hath him, One, whose hard heart is button'd up with steel; A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;"

A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff;

A black-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands, The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands;

A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well ;P

1 Far from her nest the lapwing, &c.] This expression seems to be proverbial -I have met with it in many of the old comick writers.-STEEVENS.

man everlasting garment-] The sergeants, in those days, were clad in buff, as Dromio tells us the man was who arrested Antipholus. Buff is also a cant expression for a man's skin, a covering which lasts him as long as his life. Dromio therefore calls buff an everlasting garment: and in pursuance of this quibble on the word buff, he calls the sergeant, in the next scene, the "Picture of old Adam;" that is, of Adam before his fall, whilst he remained unclad. "What, have you got the picture of old Adam new apparelled?”— M. MASON.

n A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough;] Dromio here bringing word in haste that his master is arrested, describes the bailiff by names proper to raise horror and detestation of such a creature, such as, a devil, a fiend, a wolf, &c. But how does fairy come up to these terrible ideas? we should read a fiend, a fury, &c.-THEOBALD.

There were fairies like hobgoblins, pitiless and rough, and described as malevolent and mischievous.-JOHNSON.

It is true that there is a species of malevolent and mischievous fairies, but fairy, as it here stands, is generical.-T WARTON.

and narrow lands;] Lands in the present instance may mean, what we now call landing-places at the water-side.-STEEVENS.

P A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well:] To run counter is to run backward, by mistaking the course of the animal pursued; to draw dry-foot is, I believe, to pursue by the track or prick of the foot; to run counter and draw dry-foot well are, therefore, inconsistent. The jest consists in the ambiguity of the word counter, which means the wrong way in the chace, and a prison in London. The officer that arrested him was a sergeant of the counter. For the congruity of this jest with the scene of action, let our author answer.- -JOHNSON. A hound that draws dry-foot, means what is usually called a blood-hound, trained to follow men by the scent.-M. MASON.

One that, before the judgment, carries poor souls to hell." Adr. Why, man, what is the matter?

Dro. S. I do not know the matter; he is 'rested on the

case.

Adr. What, is he arrested? tell me, at whose suit.

Dro. S. I know not at whose suit he is arrested, well; But he's in a suit of buff, which 'rested him, that can I tell : Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in the desk?

Adr. Go fetch it, sister.-This I wonder at,

[Exit. LUCIANA. That he, unknown to me, should be in debt :Tell me, was he arrested on a band?$

Dro. S. Not on a band, but on a stronger thing; A chain, a chain: do you not hear it ring?

Adr. What, the chain?

Dro. S. No, no, the bell: 'tis time, that I were gone. It was two ere I left him, and now the clock strikes one. Adr. The hours come back! that did I never hear. Dro. S. O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant, a'turns back for very fear.

Adr. As if time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason!

Dro. S. Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth, to season.

Nay, he's a thief too: Have you not heard men say,
That time comes stealing on by night and day?

If he be in debt, and theft, and a sergeant in the way,
Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?

q

Enter LUCIANA.

Adr. Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it straight; And bring thy master home immediately.—

- poor souls to hell.] Hell was the cant term for an obscure dungeon in any of our prisons.-There was likewise a place of this name under the Exchequer Chamber, where the king's debtors were confined till they had "paid the uttermost farthing."-STEEVENS.

r -'rested on the case.] An action on the case is a general action, given for the redress of a wrong done any man, without form and not especially provided for by law.-GREY.

S

on a band?] Band was formerly synonymous with bond,—and band, as an article of ornament for the neck, was the common wear of gentlemen. The clergy and lawyers who now exclusively retain them, formerly wore ruffs.NARES' Glossary.

Come, sister; I am press'd down with conceit;
Conceit, my comfort, and my injury.

SCENE III.

The same.

Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse.

[Exeunt.

Ant. S. There's not a man I meet, but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend:

And every one doth call me by my name.

Some tender money to me, some invite me;
Some other give me thanks for kindnesses;
Some offer me commodities to buy:

Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop,
And show'd me silks that he had bought for me,
And, therewithal, took measure of my body.
Sure, these are but imaginary wiles,

And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.

Enter DROMIO of Syracuse.

Dro S. Master, here's the gold you sent me for: What, have you got the picture of Old Adam new apparelled ?"

Ant. S. What gold is this? What Adam dost thou mean? Dro. S. Not that Adam, that kept the paradise, but that Adam, that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's-skin that was killed for the prodigal; he that came behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you forsake your liberty.

Ant. S. I understand thee not.

t conceit;] i. e. Fanciful conception.-STEEVENS.

"What have you got the picture of Old Adam new apparelled?] A short word or two must have slipped out here, by some accident in copying or at the press; otherwise I have no conception of the meaning of the passage. The case is this: Dromio's master had been arrested, and sent his servant home for money to redeem him: he, running back with the money, meets the twin Antipholus whom he mistakes for his master, and seeing him clear of the officer before the money was come, he cries, in a surprise, What have you got rid of the picture of Old Adam new apparelled? The allusion is to Adam in his state of innocence going naked; and immediately after the fall, being clothed in a frock of skins. Thus he was new apparelled: and in like manner the sergeants of the counter were formerly clad in buff or calf's-skin, as the author humourously a little lower calls it-THEOBALD. The explanation is very good, but the text does not require to be amended.-JOHNSON.