Comedy Of Errors

[Guru]

PINCH


More company! The fiend is strong within him.

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks!
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,
I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them
To make a rescue?

 

[Guru]

Officer


Masters, let him go
He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.

 

[Guru]

PINCH


Go bind this man, for he is frantic too.

They offer to bind Dromio of Ephesus

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to himself?

 

[Guru]

Officer


He is my prisoner: if I let him go,
The debt he owes will be required of me.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


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 convey'd
Home to my house. O most unhappy day!
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


O most unhappy strumpet!

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


Master, I am here entered in bond for you.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master:
cry 'The devil!'

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me.

Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer and Courtezan

Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?

 

[Guru]

Officer


One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


I know the man. What is the sum he owes?

 

[Guru]

Officer


Two hundred ducats.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Say, how grows it due?

 

[Guru]

Officer


Due for a chain your husband had of him.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.

 

[Guru]

Courtezan


When as your husband all in rage to-day
Came to my house and took away my ring--
The ring I saw upon his finger now--
Straight after did I meet him with a chain.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


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.

Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse with his rapier drawn, and DROMIO of Syracuse

 

[Guru]

LUCIANA


God, for thy mercy! they are loose again.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


And come with naked swords.
Let's call more help to have them bound again.

 

[Guru]

Officer


Away! they'll kill us.

Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse

ANTIPHOLUS