1464Gold. I am sorry Sir that I haue hindred you,

1465But I protest he had the Chaine of me,

1466Though most dishonestly he doth denie it.

1467Mar. How is the man esteem'd heere in the Citie?

1468Gold. Of very reuerent reputation sir,

1469Of credit infinite, highly belou'd,

1470Second to none that liues heere in the Citie:

1471His word might beare my wealth at any time.

1472Mar. Speake softly, yonder as I thinke he walkes.

1474Gold. 'Tis so: and that selfe chaine about his necke,

1475Which he forswore most monstrously to haue.

1476Good sir draw neere to me, Ile speake to him:

1477Signior Antipholus, I wonder much

1478That you would put me to this shame and trouble,

1479And not without some scandall to your selfe,

1480With circumstance and oaths, so to denie

1481This Chaine, which now you weare so openly.

1482Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,

1483You haue done wrong to this my honest friend,

1484Who but for staying on our Controuersie,

1485Had hoisted saile, and put to sea to day:

1486This Chaine you had of me, can you deny it?

1487Ant. I thinke I had, I neuer did deny it.

1488Mar. Yes that you did sir, and forswore it too.

1489Ant. Who heard me to denie it or forsweare it?

1490Mar. These eares of mine thou knowst did hear thee:

1491Fie on thee wretch, 'tis pitty that thou liu'st

1492To walke where any honest men resort.

1493Ant. Thou art a Villaine to impeach me thus,

1494Ile proue mine honor, and mine honestie

1495Against thee presently, if thou dar'st stand:

1496Mar. I dare and do defie thee for a villaine.

1498Adr. Hold, hurt him not for God sake, he is mad,

1499Some get within him, take his sword away:

1500Binde Dromio too, and beare them to my house.

1501S.Dro. Runne master run, for Gods sake take a house,

1502This is some Priorie, in, or we are spoyl'd.

1505Ab. Be quiet people, wherefore throng you hither?

1506Adr. To fetch my poore distracted husband hence,

1507Let vs come in, that we may binde him fast,

1508And beare him home for his recouerie.

1509Gold. I knew he was not in his perfect wits.

1510Mar. I am sorry now that I did draw on him.

1511Ab. How long hath this possession held the man.

1512Adr. This weeke he hath beene heauie, sower sad,

1513And much different from the man he was:

1514But till this afternoone his passion

1515Ne're brake into extremity of rage.

1516Ab. Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea,

1517Buried some deere friend, hath not else his eye

1518Stray'd his affection in vnlawfull loue,

1519A sinne preuailing much in youthfull men,

1520Who giue their eies the liberty of gazing.

1521Which of these sorrowes is he subiect too?

1522Adr. To none of these, except it be the last,

1523Namely, some loue that drew him oft from home.

1524Ab. You should for that haue reprehended him.

1525Adr. Why so I did.

1526Ab. I but not rough enough.

1527Adr. As roughly as my modestie would let me.

1528Ab. Haply in priuate.

1529Adr. And in assemblies too.

1530Ab. I, but not enough.

1531Adr. It was the copie of our Conference.

1532In bed he slept not for my vrging it,

1533At boord he fed not for my vrging it:

1534Alone, it was the subiect of my Theame:

1535In company I often glanced it:

1536Still did I tell him, it was vilde and bad.

1537Ab. And thereof came it, that the man was mad.

1538The venome clamors of a iealous woman,

1539Poisons more deadly then a mad dogges tooth.

1540It seemes his sleepes were hindred by thy railing,

1541And thereof comes it that his head is light.

1542Thou saist his meate was sawc'd with thy vpbraidings,

1543Vnquiet meales make ill digestions,

1544Thereof the raging fire of feauer bred,

1545And what's a Feauer, but a fit of madnesse?

1546Thou sayest his sports were hindred by thy bralles.

1547Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue

1548But moodie and dull melancholly,

1549Kinsman to grim and comfortlesse dispaire,

1550And at her heeles a huge infectious troope

1551Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?

1552In food, in sport, and life-preseruing rest

1553To be disturb'd, would mad or man, or beast:

1554The consequence is then, thy iealous fits

1555Hath scar'd thy husband from the vse of wits.

1556Luc. She neuer reprehended him but mildely,

1557When he demean'd himselfe, rough, rude, and wildly,

1558Why beare you these rebukes, and answer not?

1559Adri. She did betray me to my owne reproofe,

1560Good people enter, and lay hold on him.

1561Ab. No, not a creature enters in my house.

1562Ad. Then let your seruants bring my husband forth

1563Ab. Neither: he tooke this place for sanctuary,

1564And it shall priuiledge him from your hands,

1565Till I haue brought him to his wits againe,

1566Or loose my labour in assaying it.

1567Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse,

1568Diet his sicknesse, for it is my Office,

1569And will haue no atturney but my selfe,

1570And therefore let me haue him home with me.

1571Ab. Be patient, for I will not let him stirre,

1572Till I haue vs'd the approoued meanes I haue,

1573With wholsome sirrups, drugges, and holy prayers

1574To make of him a formall man againe:

1575It is a branch and parcell of mine oath,

1576A charitable dutie of my order,

1577Therefore depart, and leaue him heere with me.

1578Adr. I will not hence, and leaue my husband heere:

1579And ill it doth beseeme your holinesse

1580To separate the husband and the wife.

1581Ab. Be quiet and depart, thou shalt not haue him.

1582Luc. Complaine vnto the Duke of this indignity.

1583Adr. Come go, I will fall prostrate at his feete,

1584And neuer rise vntill my teares and prayers

1585Haue won his grace to come in person hither,

1586And take perforce my husband from the Abbesse.

1587Mar. By this I thinke the Diall points at fiue:

1588Anon I'me sure the Duke himselfe in person

1589Comes this way to the melancholly vale;

1590The place of depth, and sorrie execution,

1591Behinde the ditches of the Abbey heere.

1592Gold. Vpon what cause?

1593Mar. To see a reuerent Siracusian Merchant,

1594Who put vnluckily into this Bay

1595Against the Lawes and Statutes of this Towne,

1596Beheaded publikely for his offence.

1597Gold. See where they come, we wil behold his death

1598Luc. Kneele to the Duke before he passe the Abbey.

1602Duke. Yet once againe proclaime it publikely,

1603If any friend will pay the summe for him,

1604He shall not die, so much we tender him.

1605Adr. Iustice most sacred Duke against the Abbesse.

1606Duke. She is a vertuous and a reuerend Lady,

1607It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong.

1608Adr. May it please your Grace, Antipholus my husbãd,

1609Who I made Lord of me, and all I had,

1610At your important Letters this ill day,

1611A most outragious fit of madnesse tooke him:

1612That desp'rately he hurried through the streete,

1613With him his bondman, all as mad as he,

1614Doing displeasure to the Citizens,

1615By rushing in their houses: bearing thence

1616Rings, Iewels, any thing his rage did like.

1617Once did I get him bound, and sent him home,

1618Whil'st to take order for the wrongs I went,

1619That heere and there his furie had committed,

1620Anon I wot not, by what strong escape

1621He broke from those that had the guard of him,

1622And with his mad attendant and himselfe,

1623Each one with irefull passion, with drawne swords

1624Met vs againe, and madly bent on vs

1625Chac'd vs away: till raising of more aide

1626We came againe to binde them: then they fled

1627Into this Abbey, whether we pursu'd them,

1628And heere the Abbesse shuts the gates on vs,

1629And will not suffer vs to fetch him out,

1630Nor send him forth, that we may beare him hence.

I Therefore

1631Therefore most gracious Duke with thy command,

1632Let him be brought forth, and borne hence for helpe.

1633Duke. Long since thy husband seru'd me in my wars

1634And I to thee ingag'd a Princes word,

1635When thou didst make him Master of thy bed,

1636To do him all the grace and good I could.

1637Go some of you, knocke at the Abbey gate,

1638And bid the Lady Abbesse come to me:

1639I will determine this before I stirre.

1641Oh Mistris, Mistris, shift and saue your selfe,

1642My Master and his man are both broke loose,

1643Beaten the Maids a-row, and bound the Doctor,

1644Whose beard they haue sindg'd off with brands of fire,

1645And euer as it blaz'd, they threw on him

1646Great pailes of puddled myre to quench the haire;

1647My Mr preaches patience to him, and the while

1648His man with Cizers nickes him like a foole:

1649And sure (vnlesse you send some present helpe)

1650Betweene them they will kill the Coniurer.

1651Adr. Peace foole, thy Master and his man are here,

1652And that is false thou dost report to vs.

1653Mess. Mistris, vpon my life I tel you true,

1654I haue not breath'd almost since I did see it.

1655He cries for you, and vowes if he can take you,

1656To scorch your face, and to disfigure you:

1658Harke, harke, I heare him Mistris: flie, be gone.

1659Duke. Come stand by me, feare nothing: guard with

1660Halberds.

1661Adr. Ay me, it is my hus

band: witnesse you,

1662That he is borne about inuisible,

1663Euen now we hous'd him in the Abbey heere.

1664And now he's there, past thought of humane reason.

1666E.Ant. Iustice most gracious Duke, oh grant me iu- (stice,

1667Euen for the seruice that long since I did thee,

1668When I bestrid thee in the warres, and tooke

1669Deepe scarres to saue thy life; euen for the blood

1670That then I lost for thee, now grant me iustice.

1671Mar.Fat. Vnlesse the feare of death doth make me

1672dote, I see my sonne Antipholus and Dromio.

1673E.Ant. Iustice (sweet Prince) against y^t Woman there:

1674She whom thou gau'st to me to be my wife;

1675That hath abused and dishonored me,

1676Euen in the strength and height of iniurie:

1677Beyond imagination is the wrong

1678That she this day hath shamelesse throwne on me.

1679Duke. Discouer how, and thou shalt finde me iust.

1680E.Ant. This day (great Duke) she shut the doores

1681vpon me,

1682While she with Harlots feasted in my house.

1683Duke. A greeuous fault: say woman, didst thou so?

1684Adr. No my good Lord. My selfe, he, and my sister,

1685To day did dine together: so befall my soule,

1686As this is false he burthens me withall.

1687Luc. Nere may I looke on day, nor sleepe on night,

1688But she tels to your Highnesse simple truth.

1689Gold. O periur'd woman! They are both forsworne,

1690In this the Madman iustly chargeth them.

1691E.Ant. My Liege, I am aduised what I say,

1692Neither disturbed with the effect of Wine,

1693Nor headie-rash prouoak'd with raging ire,

1694Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.

1695This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner;

1696That Goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her,

1697Could witnesse it: for he was with me then,

1698Who parted with me to go fetch a Chaine,

1699Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,

1700Where Balthasar and I did dine together.

1701Our dinner done, and he not comming thither,

1702I went to seeke him. In the street I met him,

1703And in his companie that Gentleman.

1704There did this periur'd Goldsmith sweare me downe,

1705That I this day of him receiu'd the Chaine,

1706Which God he knowes, I saw not. For the which,

1707He did arrest me with an Officer.

1708I did obey, and sent my Pesant home

1709For certaine Duckets: he with none return'd.

1710Then fairely I bespoke the Officer

1711To go in person with me to my house.

1712By'th' way, we met my wife, her sister, and a rabble more

1713Of vilde Confederates: Along with them

1714They brought one Pinch, a hungry leane-fac'd Villaine;

1715A meere Anatomie, a Mountebanke,

1716A thred-bare Iugler, and a Fortune-teller,

1717A needy-hollow-ey'd-sharpe-looking-wretch;

1718A liuing dead man. This pernicious slaue,

1719Forsooth tooke on him as a Coniurer:

1720And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,

1721And with no-face (as 'twere) out-facing me,

1722Cries out, I was possest. Then altogether

1723They fell vpon me, bound me, bore me thence,

1724And in a darke and dankish vault at home

1725There left me and my man, both bound together,

1726Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,

1727I gain'd my freedome; and immediately

1728Ran hether to your Grace, whom I beseech

1729To giue me ample satisfaction

1730For these deepe shames, and great indignities.

1731Gold. My Lord, in truth, thus far I witnes with him:

1732That he din'd not at home, but was lock'd out.

1733Duke. But had he such a Chaine of thee, or no?

1734Gold. He had my Lord, and when he ran in heere,

1735These people saw the Chaine about his necke.

1736Mar. Besides, I will be sworne these eares of mine,

1737Heard you confesse you had the Chaine of him,

1738After you first forswore it on the Mart,

1739And thereupon I drew my sword on you:

1740And then you fled into this Abbey heere,

1741From whence I thinke you are come by Miracle.

1742E.Ant. I neuer came within these Abbey wals,

1743Nor euer didst thou draw thy sword on me:

1744I neuer saw the Chaine, so helpe me heauen:

1745And this is false you burthen me withall.

1746Duke. Why what an intricate impeach is this?

1747I thinke you all haue drunke of Circes cup:

1748If heere you hous'd him, heere he would haue bin.

1749If he were mad, he would not pleade so coldly:

1750You say he din'd at home, the Goldsmith heere

1751Denies that saying. Sirra, what say you?

1752E.Dro. Sir he din'de with her there, at the Porpen-

1753tine.

1754Cur. He did, and from my finger snacht that Ring.

1755E.Anti. Tis true (my Liege) this Ring I had of her.

1756Duke. Saw'st thou him enter at the Abbey heere?

1757Curt. As sure (my Liege) as I do see your Grace.

1758Duke. Why this is straunge: Go call the Abbesse hi-

1759ther.

1760I thinke you are all mated, or starke mad.

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,

I 2 And

1889And we shall make full satisfaction.

1890Thirtie three yeares haue I but gone in trauaile

1891Of you my sonnes, and till this present houre

1892My heauie burthen are deliuered:

1893The Duke my husband, and my children both,

1894And you the Kalenders of their Natiuity,

1895Go to a Gossips feast, and go with mee,

1896After so long greefe such Natiuitie.

1897Duke. With all my heart, Ile Gossip at this feast.

1900S.Dro. Mast[er]. shall I fetch your stuffe from shipbord?

1901E.An. Dromio, what stuffe of mine hast thou imbarkt

1902S.Dro. Your goods that lay at host sir in the Centaur.

1903S.Ant. He speakes to me, I am your master Dromio.

1904Come go with vs, wee'l looke to that anon,

1905Embrace thy brother there, reioyce with him. Exit

1906S.Dro. There is a fat friend at your masters house,

1907That kitchin'd me for you to day at dinner:

1908She now shall be my sister, not my wife,

1909E.D. Me thinks you are my glasse, & not my brother:

1910I see by you, I am a sweet-fac'd youth,

1911Will you walke in to see their gossipping?

1912S.Dro. Not I sir, you are my elder.

1913E.Dro. That's a question, how shall we trie it.

1914S.Dro. Wee'l draw Cuts for the Signior, till then,

1915lead thou first.

1916E.Dro. Nay then thus:

1917We came into the world like brother and brother:

1918And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.