ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE That's a fault that water will mend.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No, sir, 'tis in grain; Noah's flood could not do it.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE What's her name?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters, that's
an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from
hip to hip.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE Then she bears some breadth?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:
she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out
countries in her.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE In what part of her body stands Ireland?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE Where Scotland?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm of the hand.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE Where France?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war
against her heir.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE Where England?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no
whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin,
by the salt rheum that ran between France and it.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE Where Spain?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF SYRACUSE Where America, the Indies?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with
rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich
aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole
armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.
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