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And yielding to him humours well his frenzy. Antipholus of Ephesus Thou hast subornād the goldsmith to arrest me. Adriana
Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,
By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.
Money by me! heart and good-will you might;
But surely, master, not a rag of money.
God and the rope-maker bear me witness
That I was sent for nothing but a rope!
Mistress, both man and master is possessād;
I know it by their pale and deadly looks:
They must be bound and laid in some dark room.
Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth today?
And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?
And, gentle master, I received no gold;
But I confess, sir, that we were lockād out.
Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all
And art confederate with a damned pack
To make a loathsome abject scorn of me:
But with these nails Iāll pluck out these false eyes
That would behold in me this shameful sport.
What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,
I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them
To make a rescue?
Masters, let him go:
He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.
What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to himself?
He is my prisoner: if I let him go,
The debt he owes will be required of me.
I will discharge thee ere I go from thee:
Bear me forthwith unto his creditor
And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it.
Good master doctor, see him safe conveyād
Home to my house. O most unhappy day!
Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me. Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer, and Courtesan.
Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?
When as your husband all in rage today
Came to my house and took away my ringā ā
The ring I saw upon his finger nowā ā
Straight after did I meet him with a chain.
It may be so, but I did never see it.
Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is:
I long to know the truth hereof at large.
And come with naked swords.
Letās call more help to have them bound again.
Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence:
I long that we were safe and sound aboard.
I will not stay tonight for all the town;
Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard. Exeunt.
A street before a Priory.
Enter Second Merchant and Angelo. AngeloI am sorry, sir, that I have hinderād you;
But, I protest, he had the chain of me,
Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.
Of very reverend reputation, sir,
Of credit infinite, highly beloved,
Second to none that lives here in the city:
His word might bear my wealth at any time.
āTis so; and that self chain about his neck
Which he forswore most monstrously to have.
Good sir, draw near to me, Iāll speak to him.
Signior Antipholus, I wonder much
That you would put me to this shame and trouble;
And, not without some scandal to yourself,
With circumstance and oaths so to deny
This chain which now you wear so openly:
Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,
You have done wrong to this my honest friend,
Who, but for staying on our controversy,
Had hoisted sail and put to sea today:
This chain you had of me; can you deny it?
These ears of mine, thou knowāst, did hear thee.
Fie on thee, wretch! ātis pity that thou livest
To walk where any honest men resort.
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