Comedy Of Errors

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out?

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


And did not she herself revile me there?

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


Sans fable, she herself reviled you there.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


Certes, she did; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


And did not I in rage depart from thence?

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


In verity you did; my bones bear witness,
That since have felt the vigour of his rage.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?

 

[Guru]

PINCH


It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein,
And yielding to him humours well his frenzy.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,
By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


Money by me! heart and goodwill you might;
But surely master, not a rag of money.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats?

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


He came to me and I deliver'd it.

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


And I am witness with her that she did.

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


God and the rope-maker bear me witness
That I was sent for nothing but a rope!

 

[Guru]

PINCH


Mistress, both man and master is possess'd;
I know it by their pale and deadly looks:
They must be bound and laid in some dark room.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day?
And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


And, gentle master, I received no gold;
But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


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 I'll pluck out these false eyes
That would behold in me this shameful sport.

Enter three or four, and offer to bind him. He strives

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.