The Comedy of Errors Part 6

_Luc._ Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late.

[_Exeunt._

NOTES: II, 2.

SCENE II.] Capell. SCENE IV. Pope.

A public place.] Capell. A street. Pope.

3, 4, 5: _out By ... report. I_] F1 F2 F3. _out By ... report, I_ F4.

_out. By ... report, I_ Rowe.

12: _didst_] _did didst_ F1.

23: Beating him] Beats Dro. Ff.

28: _jest_] _jet_ Dyce.

29: _common_] _comedy_ Hanmer.

35-107: Pope marks as spurious.

38: _else_] om. Capell.

45: _Why, first_] _First, why_ Capell.

53: _next, to_] _next time,_ Capell conj.

_to_] _and_ Collier MS.

59: _none_] F1. _not_ F2 F3 F4.

76: _hair_] _hair to men_ Capell.

79: _men_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _them_ Ff.

91: _sound_] F1. _sound ones_ F2 F3 F4.

93: _falsing_] _falling_ Heath conj.

97: _tr.i.m.m.i.n.g_] Rowe. _trying_ Ff. _tyring_ Pope. _'tiring_ Collier.

101: _no time_] F2 F3 F4. _in no time_ F1. _e'en no time_ Collier (Malone conj.).

110: _thy_] F1. _some_ F2 F3 F4.

111: _not ... nor_] _but ... and_ Capell conj.

112: _unurged_] _unurg'dst_ Pope.

117: _or look'd, or_] _look'd,_ Steevens.

_to thee_] om. Pope. _thee_ S. Walker conj.

119: _then_] _thus_ Rowe.

130: _but_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

135: _off_] Hanmer. _of_ Ff.

138: _canst_] _wouldst_ Hanmer.

140: _crime_] _grime_ Warburton.

142: _thy_] F1. _my_ F2 F3 F4.

143: _contagion_] _catagion_ F4.

145: _distain'd_] _unstain'd_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.).

_dis-stain'd_ Theobald. _distained_ Heath conj.

_undishonoured_] _dishonoured_ Heath conj.

149, 150: Marked as spurious by Pope.

_Who, ... Wants_] _Whose every ..., Want_ Becket conj.

150: _Wants_] Ff. _Want_ Johnson.

155: _By me?_] Pope. _By me._ Ff.

156: _this_] F1, Capell. _thus_ F2 F3 F4.

167: _your_] _you_ F2.

174: _stronger_] F4. _stranger_ F1 F2 F3.

180-185: Marked 'aside' by Capell.

180: _moves_] _means_ Collier MS.

183: _drives_] _draws_ Collier MS.

184: _sure uncertainty_] _sure: uncertainly_ Becket conj.

185: _offer'd_] Capell. _free'd_ Ff. _favour'd_ Pope.

_proffered_ Collier MS.

187-201: Marked as spurious by Pope.

189: _talk_] _walk and talk_ Anon. conj.

_goblins_] _ghosts and goblins_ Lettsom conj.

_owls_] _ouphs_ Theobald.

_sprites_] F1. _elves sprites_ F2 F3 F4. _elvish sprites_ Rowe (ed. 2). _elves and sprites_ Collier MS.

191: _or_] _and_ Theobald.

192: _and answer'st not?_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

193: _Dromio, thou drone, thou snail_] Theobald.

_Dromio, thou Dromio, thou snaile_ F1.

_Dromio, thou Dromio, snaile_ F2 F3 F4.

194: _am I not?_] Ff. _am not I?_ Theobald.

203: _the eye_] _thy eye_ F2 F3.

204: _laughs_] Ff. _laugh_ Pope.

211-215: Marked as 'aside' by Capell.

ACT III.

_SCENE I. Before the house of _ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus_._

_Enter _ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus_, _DROMIO of Ephesus_, ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR._

_Ant. E._ Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all; My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours: Say that I linger'd with you at your shop To see the making of her carcanet, And that to-morrow you will bring it home. 5 But here's a villain that would face me down He met me on the mart, and that I beat him, And charged him with a thousand marks in gold, And that I did deny my wife and house.

Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this? 10

_Dro. E._ Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know; That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show: If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

_Ant. E._ I think thou art an a.s.s.

_Dro. E._ Marry, so it doth appear 15 By the wrongs I suffer, and the blows I bear.

I should kick, being kick'd; and, being at that pa.s.s, You would keep from my heels, and beware of an a.s.s.

_Ant. E._ You're sad, Signior Balthazar: pray G.o.d our cheer May answer my good will and your good welcome here. 20

_Bal._ I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear.

_Ant. E._ O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish, A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

_Bal._ Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords.

_Ant. E._ And welcome more common; for that's nothing but words. 25