Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer,
Establish him in his true sense again,
And I will please you what you will demand.
Luc. Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!
Cour. Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!
Pinch. Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.
Ant. E. There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.

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[Striking him.

Pinch. I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
To yield possession to my holy prayers

And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight :
I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!

Ant. E. Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad.
Adr. O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul !
Ant. E. You minion, you, are these your customers?
Did this companion with the saffron face

Revel and feast it at my house to-day,

Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut

And I denied to enter in my house?

Adr. O husband, God doth know you dined at home; Where would you had remain'd until this time,

Free from these slanders and this open shame!

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Ant. E. Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou?

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Dro. E. Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.
Ant. E. Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out?
Dro. E. Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out.
Ant. E. And did not she herself revile me there?
Dro. E. Sans fable, she herself reviled you there.
Ant. E. Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt and scorn
me?

Dro. E. Certes, she did; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you. Ant. E. And did not I in rage depart from thence? Dro. E. In verity you did; my bones bear witness, That since have felt the vigour of his rage.

Adr. Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?
Pinch. It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein

And yielding to him humours well his frenzy.

Ant. E. Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me. Adr. Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,

By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.

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Dro. E. Money by me! heart and good will you might;

But surely, master, not a rag of money.

Ant. E. Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats? Adr. He came to me and I deliver'd it.

Luc. And I am witness with her that she did.

Dro. E. God and the rope-maker bear me witness

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That I was sent for nothing but a rope

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.

Ant. E. Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to day?

And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?

Adr. I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.

Dro. E. And, gentle master, I received no gold;

But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out.

Adr. Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both.
Ant. E. 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.

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Enter three or four, and offer to bind him. He strives.
Adr. O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.
Pinch. More company! The fiend is strong within him.
Luc. Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks! 111
Ant. E. What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler,
thou,

I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them
To make a rescue?

Off.
Masters, let him go:
He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.
Pinch. Go bind this man, for he is frantic too.

[They offer to bind Dro. E.

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

The debt he owes will be required of me.

Off. He is my prisoner: if I let him go,

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Adr. 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!

Ant. E. O most unhappy strumpet!

Dro. E. Master, I am here entered in bond for you. Ant. E. Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?

Dro. E. Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master cry the devil!"

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Luc. God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk ! Adr. 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?

Off. One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?
Adr. I know the man. What is the sum he owes?

Off. Two hundred ducats.
Adr.

Say, how grows it due?

Off. Due for a chain your husband had of him.

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

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

Luc. God, for thy mercy! they are loose again,

Adr. And come with naked swords.

Let's call more help to have them bound again.

Off. Away! they'll kill us.

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[Exeunt all but Ant. S. and Dro S. Ant. S. I see these witches are afraid of swords. Dro. S. She that would be your wife now ran from you. Ant. S. Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from

thence:

I long that we were safe and sound aboard.

Dro. S. Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm you saw they speak us fair, give us gold: methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch. Ant. S. I will not stay to-night for all the town; Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard.

ACT V.

SCENE I. A Street before a Priory.

Enter Second Merchant and ANGELO.

Ang. I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you;

But, I protest, he had the chain of me,

Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.

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Sec. Mer. How is the man esteem'd here in the city?
Ang. Of very reverend reputation, sir,

Of credit infinite, highly beloved,

Second to none that lives here in the city:
His word might bear my wealth at any time.
Sec. Mer. Speak softly: yonder, as I think, he walks.

Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse.

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Ang. 'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck
Which he forswore most monstrously to have.
Good sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him.
Signior Antipholus, I wonder much

That you would put me to this shame and trouble;
And not without some scandal to yourself,
With circumstance and oaths so to deny
This chain which now you wear so openly:
Besides the charge, the shame, imprisonment,
You have done wrong to this my honest friend,
Who, but for staying on our controversy,
Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day:

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This chain you had of me; can you deny it?

Ant. S. I think I had; I never did deny it.

Sec. Mer. Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.

Ant. S. Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?

Sec. Mer. These ears of mine, thou know'st, did hear thee.

Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou livest

To walk where any honest men resort.

Ant. S. Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:
I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty
Against thee presently, if thou darest stand.

Sec. Mer. I dare, and do defy thee for a villain.

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[They draw.

Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and others. Adr. Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad. Some get within him, take his sword away:

Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.

Dro. S. Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house!

This is some priory. In, or we are spoil'd!

[Exeunt Ant. S. and Dro. S. to the Priory

Enter the Lady Abbess.

Abb. Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither? Adr. To fetch my poor distracted husband hence. Let us come in, that we may bind him fast

And bear him home for his recovery.

Ang. I knew he was not in his perfect wits.

Sec. Mer. I am sorry now that I did draw on him.
Abb. How long hath this possession held the man?

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Adr. This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,
And much different from the man he was;
But till this afternoon his passion

Ne'er brake into extremity of rage.

Abb. Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea?
Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye
Stray'd his affection in unlawful love?

A sin prevailing much in youthful men,
Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing.
Which of these sorrows is he subject to?

Adr. To none of these, except it be the last;
Namely, some love that drew him oft from home.
Abb. You should for that have reprehended him.
Adr. Why, so I did.

Abb.
Ay, but not rough enough.
Adr. As roughly as my modesty would let me.
Abb. Haply, in private.

Adr.

And in assemblies too.
Abb. Ay, but not enough.

Adr. It was the copy of our conference :
In bed he slept not for my urging it:
At board he fed not for my urging it;
Alone, it was the subject of my theme;
In company I often glanced it;

Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.

Abb. And therefore came it that the man was mad :

The venom clamours of a jealous woman

Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing,

And thereof comes it that his head is light.

Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings :
Unquiet meals make ill digestions;

Thereof the raging fire of fever bred;

And what's a fever but a fit of madness?

Thou say'st his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls:
Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
And at her heels a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
In food, in sport and life-preserving rest
To be disturb'd, would mad or man or beast:
The consequence is then thy jealous fits
Have scared thy husband from the use of wits.
Luc. She never reprehended him but mildly,
When he demean'd himself rough, rude and wildly.
Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?

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