_Dro. E._ Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good
master: cry, The devil! 125
_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? 130
_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,-- 135
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. 140
_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.
[_Exeunt all but Ant. S. and Dro. S._
_Ant. S._ I see these witches are afraid of swords. 145
_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: 150
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.
[_Exeunt._ 155
NOTES: IV, 4.
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