_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. 75
_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, 80
By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.
_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. 85
_Luc._ And I am witness with her that she did.
_Dro. E._ God and the rope-maker bear me witness
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: 90
They must be bound, and laid in some dark room.
_Ant. E._ Say, wherefore didst them 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; 95
But I confess, sir, that we were lock’d out.
_Adr._ Dissembling villain, them speak’st false in both.
_Ant. E._ Dissembling harlot, them art false in all,
And art confederate with a damned pack
To make a loathsome abject scorn of me: 100
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._
_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! 105
_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. 110
[_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?
_Off._ He is my prisoner: if I let him go,
The debt he owes will be required of me. 115
_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! 120
_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?
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