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1761 Exit one to the Abbesse.
1762Fa. Mo
st mighty Duke, vouch
safe me
speak a word:
1763Haply I
see a friend will
saue my life,
1764And pay the
sum that may deliuer me.
1765Duke. Speake freely
Siracusian what thou wilt.
1766Fath. Is not your name
sir call'd
Antipholus? 1767And is not that your bondman
Dromio? 1768E.Dro. Within this houre I was his bondman
sir,
1769But he I thanke him gnaw'd in two my cords,
1770Now am I
Dromio, and his man, vnbound.
1771Fath. I am
sure you both of you remember me.
1772Dro. Our
selues we do remember
sir by you:
1773For lately we were bound as you are now.
1774You are not
Pinches patient, are you
sir?
1775Father. Why looke you
strange on me? you know
1777E.Ant. I neuer
saw you in my life till now.
1778Fa. Oh! griefe hath chang'd me
since you
saw me la
st,
1779And carefull houres with times deformed hand,
1780Haue written
strange defeatures in my face:
1781But tell me yet, do
st thou not know my voice?
1783Fat. Dromio, nor thou?
1784Dro. No tru
st me
sir, nor I.
1785Fa. I am
sure thou do
st?
1786E.Dromio. I
sir, but I am
sure I do not, and what
so
- 1787euer a man denies, you are now bound to beleeue him.
1788Fath. Not know my voice, oh times extremity
1789Ha
st thou
so crack'd and
splitted my poore tongue
1790In
seuen
short yeares, that heere my onely
sonne
1791Knowes not my feeble key of vntun'd cares?
1792Though now this grained face of mine be hid
1793In
sap-con
suming Winters drizled
snow,
1794And all the Conduits of my blood froze vp:
1795Yet hath my night of life
some memorie:
1796My wa
sting lampes
some fading glimmer left;
1797My dull deafe eares a little v
se to heare:
1798All the
se old witne
sses, I cannot erre.
1799Tell me, thou art my
sonne
Antipholus. 1800Ant. I neuer
saw my Father in my life.
1801Fa. But
seuen yeares
since, in
Siracusa boy
1802Thou know'
st we parted, but perhaps my
sonne,
1803Thou
sham'
st to acknowledge me in mi
serie.
1804Ant. The Duke, and all that know me in the City,
1805Can witne
sse with me that it is not
so.
1806I ne're
saw
Siracusa in my life.
1807Duke. I tell thee
Siracusian, twentie yeares
1808Haue I bin Patron to
Antipholus, 1809During which time, he ne're
saw
Siracusa: 1810I
see thy age and dangers make thee dote.
1811 Enter the Abbesse with Antipholus Siracusa,
1813Abbesse. Mo
st mightie Duke, behold a man much
1815 All gather to see them. 1816Adr. I
see two hu
sbands, or mine eyes deceiue me.
1817Duke. One of the
se men is
genius to the other:
1818And
so of the
se, which is the naturall man,
1819And which the
spirit? Who deciphers them?
1820S.Dromio. I Sir am
Dromio, command him away.
1821E.Dro. I Sir am
Dromio, pray let me
stay.
1822S.Ant. Egeon art thou not? or el
se his gho
st.
1823S.Drom. Oh my olde Ma
ster, who hath bound him
1825Abb. Who euer bound him, I will lo
se his bonds,
1826And gaine a hu
sband by his libertie:
1827Speake olde
Egeon, if thou bee'
st the man
1828That had
st a wife once call'd
Aemilia, 1829That bore thee at a burthen two faire
sonnes?
1830Oh if thou bee'
st the
same
Egeon, speake:
1831And
speake vnto the
same
Aemilia. 1832Duke. Why heere begins his Morning
storie right:
1833The
se two
Antipholus, the
se two
so like,
1834And the
se two
Dromio's, one in
semblance:
1835Be
sides her vrging of her wracke at
sea,
1836The
se are the parents to the
se children,
1837Which accidentally are met together.
1838Fa. If I dreame not, thou art
Aemilia, 1839If thou art
she, tell me, where is that
sonne
1840That
floated with thee on the fatall rafte.
1841Abb. By men of
Epidamium, he, and I,
1842And the twin
Dromio, all were taken vp;
1843But by and by, rude Fi
shermen of
Corinth 1844By force tooke
Dromio, and my
sonne from them,
1845And me they left with tho
se of
Epidamium. 1846What then became of them, I cannot tell:
1847I, to this fortune that you
see mee in.
1848Duke. Antipholus thou cam'
st from
Corinth fir
st.
1849S.Ant. No
sir, not I, I came from
Siracuse. 1850Duke. Stay,
stand apart, I know not which is which.
1851E.Ant. I came from
Corinth my mo
st gracious Lord
1852E.Dro. And I with him.
1853E.Ant. Brought to this Town by that mo
st famous
1855Duke
Menaphon your mo
st renowned Vnckle.
1856Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to day?
1857S.Ant. I, gentle Mi
stris.
1858Adr. And are not you my hu
sband?
1859E.Ant. No, I
say nay to that.
1860S.Ant. And
so do I, yet did
she call me
so:
1861And this faire Gentlewoman her
sister heere
1862Did call me brother. What I told you then,
1863I hope I
shall haue lei
sure to make good,
1864If this be not a dreame I
see and heare.
1865Goldsmith. That is the Chaine
sir, which you had of
1867S.Ant. I thinke it be
sir, I denie it not.
1868E.Ant. And you
sir for this Chaine arre
sted me.
1869Gold. I thinke I did
sir, I deny it not.
1870Adr. I
sent you monie
sir to be your baile
1871By
Dromio, but I thinke he brought it not.
1872E.Dro. No, none by me.
1873S.Ant. This pur
se of Duckets I receiu'd from you,
1874And
Dromio my man did bring them me:
1875I
see we
still did meete each others man,
1876And I was tane for him, and he for me,
1877And thereupon the
se errors are aro
se.
1878E.Ant. The
se Duckets pawne I for my father heere.
1879Duke. It
shall not neede, thy father hath his life.
1880Cur. Sir I mu
st haue that Diamond from you.
1881E.Ant. There take it, and much thanks for my good
1883Abb. Renowned Duke, vouch
safe to take the paines
1884To go with vs into the Abbey heere,
1885And heare at large di
scour
sed all our fortunes,
1886And all that are a
ssembled in this place:
1887That by this
simpathized one daies error
1888Haue
su
ffer'd wrong. Goe, keepe vs companie,
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