DROMIO OF EPHESUS You would say so, master, if your garments were thin.
Your cake there is warm within; you stand here in the cold:
It would make a man mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS Go fetch me something: I'll break ope the gate.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Break any breaking here, and I'll break your
knave's pate.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind,
Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] It seems thou want'st breaking: out upon
thee, hind!
DROMIO OF EPHESUS Here's too much 'out upon thee!' I pray thee,
let me in.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS Well, I'll break in: go borrow me a crow.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?
For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather;
If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS Go get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow.
BALTHAZAR Have patience, sir; O, let it not be so!
Herein you war against your reputation
And draw within the compass of suspect
The unviolated honour of your wife.
Once this,--your long experience of her wisdom,
Her sober virtue, years and modesty,
Plead on her part some cause to you unknown:
And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse
Why at this time the doors are made against you.
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