Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard.
Exeunt.
¶
ACT V
Scene I
Enter the [Second] Merchant and [Angelo] the goldsmith.
Ang.
I am sorry, sir, that I have hind’red you,
But I protest he had the chain of me,
Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.
[2. E.] Mer.
How is the man esteem’d here in the city?
Ang.
Of very reverent reputation, sir,
Of credit infinite, highly belov’d,
Second to none that lives here in the city:
His word might bear my wealth at any time.
[2. E.] Mer.
Speak softly, yonder, as I think, he walks.
Enter Antipholus [of Syracuse] and Dromio [of Syracuse] again.
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.
Beside 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.
This chain you had of me, can you deny it?
S. Ant.
I think I had, I never did deny it.
[2. E.] Mer.
Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.
S. Ant.
Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?
[2. E.] Mer.
These ears of mine thou know’st did hear thee;
Fie on thee, wretch, ’tis pity that thou liv’st
To walk where any honest men resort.
S. Ant.
Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:
I’ll prove mine honor and mine honesty
Against thee presently, if thou dar’st stand.
[2. E.] Mer.
I dare, and do defy thee for a villain.
They draw.
Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtezan, and others.
Adr.
Hold, hurt him not for God sake! he is mad.
Some get within him, take his sword away:
Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.
S. Dro.
Run, master, run, for God’s sake take a house!
This is some priory, in, or we are spoil’d.
Exeunt [Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse] to the priory.
Enter 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.
[2. E.] Mer.
I am sorry now that I did draw on him.
Abb.
How long hath this possession held the man?
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 wrack 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 vild and bad.
Abb.
And thereof came it that the