1762Fa. Most mighty Duke, vouchsafe 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

1776me well.

1777E.Ant. I neuer saw you in my life till now.

1778Fa. Oh! griefe hath chang'd me since you saw me last,

1779And carefull houres with times deformed hand,

1780Haue written strange defeatures in my face:

1781But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

1782Ant. Neither.

1783Fat. Dromio, nor thou?

1784Dro. No trust me sir, nor I.

1785Fa. I am sure thou dost?

1786E.Dromio. I sir, but I am sure I do not, and whatso-

1787euer a man denies, you are now bound to beleeue him.

1788Fath. Not know my voice, oh times extremity

1789Hast 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-consuming Winters drizled snow,

1794And all the Conduits of my blood froze vp:

1795Yet hath my night of life some memorie:

1796My wasting lampes some fading glimmer left;

1797My dull deafe eares a little vse to heare:

1798All these old witnesses, 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 miserie.

1804Ant. The Duke, and all that know me in the City,

1805Can witnesse 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.

1813Abbesse. Most mightie Duke, behold a man much

1814wrong'd.

1816Adr. I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceiue me.

1817Duke. One of these men is genius to the other:

1818And so of these, 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 else his ghost.

1823S.Drom. Oh my olde Master, who hath bound him

1824heere?

1825Abb. Who euer bound him, I will lose his bonds,

1826And gaine a husband by his libertie:

1827Speake olde Egeon, if thou bee'st the man

1828That hadst 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:

1833These two Antipholus, these two so like,

1834And these two Dromio's, one in semblance:

1835Besides her vrging of her wracke at sea,

1836These are the parents to these 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 Fishermen of Corinth

1844By force tooke Dromio, and my sonne from them,

1845And me they left with those 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 first.

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 most gracious Lord

1852E.Dro. And I with him.

1853E.Ant. Brought to this Town by that most famous

1854Warriour,

1855Duke Menaphon your most renowned Vnckle.

1856Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to day?

1857S.Ant. I, gentle Mistris.

1858Adr. And are not you my husband?

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 leisure to make good,

1864If this be not a dreame I see and heare.

1865Goldsmith. That is the Chaine sir, which you had of

1866mee.

1867S.Ant. I thinke it be sir, I denie it not.

1868E.Ant. And you sir for this Chaine arrested 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 purse 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 these errors are arose.

1878E.Ant. These Duckets pawne I for my father heere.

1879Duke. It shall not neede, thy father hath his life.

1880Cur. Sir I must haue that Diamond from you.

1881E.Ant. There take it, and much thanks for my good

1882cheere.

1883Abb. Renowned Duke, vouchsafe to take the paines

1884To go with vs into the Abbey heere,

1885And heare at large discoursed all our fortunes,

1886And all that are assembled in this place:

1887That by this simpathized one daies error

1888Haue suffer'd wrong. Goe, keepe vs companie,

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