How now, sir? have you that I sent you for? Dro. E. Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all. Ant. E. But where's the money? Dro. E. Why, sir, I gave the money for the / rope? Ant. E. Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope? Dro. E. I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate. Ant. E. To what end did I bid thee hie thee home? Dro. E. To a rope's end, sir: and to that end am I return'd. Ant. E. And to that end, sir, I will welcome [Beating him. you. Off. Good sir, be patient. Dro. E. Nay, 'tis for me to be patient: I am in adversity. Off. Good now, hold thy tongue. hands. Ant. E. Thou whoreson, senseless villain! Dro. E. I would, I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel your blows. Ant. E. Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass. Dro. E. I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service, but blows: when I am cold, he heats me with beating: when I am warm, he cools me with beating: I am waked with it, when I sleep: raised with it, when I sit; driven out of doors with it, when I go from home; welcomed home with it, when I return: nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont her brat; and, I think, when he hath lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door. Enter Adriana, Luciana, and the Courtezan, with Pinch, and others. Ant. E. Come, go along; my wife is coming yonder. Dro. E. Mistress, respice finem, respect your end; or rather the prophecy, like the parrot, Beware the rope's end. Ant. E. Wilt thou still talk? [Beats him. Cour. How say you now? is not your husband mad? Adr. His incivility confirms no less.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 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. Perdy, 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 revil'd 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. room. Ant. E. Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day, And why dost thou deny the bag of gold? Ant. E. Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all; And art confederate with a damned pack, eyes, [Pinch and his Assistants bind Ant. and Dro. Adr. O, bind him, bind him, let him not come near me. Pinch. More company;-the fiend is strong within him. Luc. Ah me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks! Ant. E. What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou, I am thy prisoner; wilt thou suffer them 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 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 requir'd of me." Adr. I will discharge thee, ere I go from thee: Bear me forthwith unto his creditor, And, knowing how the debt grows, I will Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd pay it Home to my house.-O most unhappy day! Ant. E. O most unhappy strumpet! Dro. E. Master, I am here enter'd in bond for you. Ant. E. Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost| This chain, which now you wear so openly: thou mad me? Besides the charge, the shame, imprisonment, Dro. E. Will you be bound for nothing 7 be You have done wrong to this my honest friend; mad, Good master; cry, the devil. Luc. God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk! Adr. Go, bear him hence.-Sister, go you with me. [Exeunt Pinch and Assistants with Antipholus and Dromio. 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? Ofi. Two hundred ducats. Say, how grows it due ? Offi. 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, today Came to my house, and took away my ring, 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. Offi Away, they'll kill us. [Exeunt Officer, Adr. and Luc. 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. 1 will not stay to-night for all the town; Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard. ACT V. SCENE I. The same. Enter Merchant and Angelo. [Exeunt. Ang. I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you; But, I protest, he had the chain of me, Ang. Of very reverend reputation, sir, Second to none that lives here in the city: Enter Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse. Ant. '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, Who, but for staying on our controversy, too. 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. Still did I tell him it was vile and bad. mad: Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, Why bear you these rebukes, and answer not? Abb. No, not a creature enters in my house. Abb. Neither; he took this place for sanctuary. Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, And therefore let me have him home with me. Therefore depart, and leave him here with me. And ill it doth beseem your holiness, Mer. To see a reverend Syracusan merchant, Against the laws and statutes of this town, Ang. See, where they come; we will behold Luc. Kneel to the duke, before he pass the Enter Duke attended; Egeon bare-headed; Duke. She is a virtuous and a reverend lady; Whom I made lord of me and all I had, By rushing in their houses, bearing thence He broke from those that had the guard of him Met us again, and, madly bent on us, Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy com- Let him be brought forth, and borne hence for help. Duke. Long since, thy husband serv'd me in my wars; And I to thee engag'd a prince's word, I will determine this, before I stir. Serv. O mistress, mistress, shift and save your- My master and his man are both broke loose, And ever as it blaz'd, they threw on him His man with scissors nicks him like a fool; And that is false, thou dost report to us. [Cry within. Hark, hark, I hear him, mistress; fly, be gone. Duke. Come, stand by me, fear nothing; Guard with halberds. Adr. Ah me, it is my husband! Witness you, Even now we hous'd him in the abbey here; To-day did dine together: So befall my soul, Luc. Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night, But she tells to your highness simple truth! sworn. In this the madman justly chargeth them. Ant. E. My liege, I am advised what I say; Could witness it, for he was with me then; That I this day of him receiv'd the chain, I did obey; and sent my peasant home My wife, her sister, and a rabble more A mere anatomy, a monntebank, For these deep shames and great indignities. him; That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out. These people saw the chain about his neck. mine Heard you confess, you had the chain of him, Cour. He did; and from my finger snatch'd that ring. Ant. E. 'Tis true, my liege, this ring I had of her. I Duke. Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here? Cour. As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace. Duke. Why, this is strange;-Go call the abbess hither; think, you are all mated, or stark mad. Haply I see a friend will save my life, Duke. Speak freely, Syracusan, what thou wilt sir, But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords; Now am I Dromio, and his man, unbound. Ege. I am sure, you both of you remember me. Dro. E. Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you; For lately we were bound as you are now. Ant. E I never saw you in my life, till now. saw me last; And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, Have written strange defeatures in my face: But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice? Ant. E. Neither. Æge. Dromio, nor thou? Dro. E. No, trust me, sir, nor I. Æge. I am sure, thou dost. Dro. E. Ay, sir? but I am sure, I do not, and whatsoever a man denies, you are now bound to believe him. Ege. Not know my voice! O, time's extre mity! Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue, Ege. But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy, Can witness with me, that it is not so; Duke. I tell thee, Syracusan, twenty years Abb. Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd. [All gather to see him. Adr. I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive That bore thee at a burden two fair sons: Ege. If I dream not, thou art Æmilia; Abb. By men of Epidamnum, he, and I, These two Antipholuses, these two so alike, Ant. E. I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord. Dro. E. And I with him. Ant. E. Brought to this town with that most famous warrior Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle. Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to-day? Ant. S. I, gentle mistress. Adr. And are not you my husband? Ant. E. No, I say nay to that. Ant. S. And so do 1, yet did she call me so; And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here, Did call me brother:-What I told you then, I hope, I shall have leisure to make good: If this be not a dream I see and hear. Duke. It shall not need, thy father hath his life. Cour. Sir, I must have that diamond from you. Ant. E. There, take it; and much thanks for my good cheer. Abb. Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains To go with us into the abbey here, And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:- The duke, my husband, and my children both, Duke. With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast. [Exeunt Duke, Abbess, geon, Courtezan, Merchant, Angelo, and Attendants. Dro. S. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship-board? Ant. E. Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd? Dro. S. Your goods, that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur. Ant. S. He speaks to me; I am your master, Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon: [Exeunt Ant. S. and Ant. E. Adr. and Luc. Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's house, That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner; Ang. That is the chain, sir, which you had of Dro. E. Methinks, you are my glass, and not me. Ant. S. I think it be, sir; I deny it not. Ant E. And you, sir, for this chain arrested me. Ang. I think I did, sir; I deny it not. Adr. I sent you money, sir, to be your bail, By Dromio; but I think he brought it not. Dro. E. No, none by me. Ant. S. This purse of ducats I receiv'd from you, And Dromio my man did bring them me: I see, we still did meet each other's man, And 1 was ta'en for him, and he for me," I my brother: see by you, I am a sweet-faced youth. Will you walk in to see their gossiping? Dro. S. Not I, sir; you are my elder. Dro. E. That's a question: how shall we try it? Dro. S. We will draw cuts for the senior; till then, lead thou first. Dro. E. Nay; then thus: We came into the world, like brother and brother: And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. [Exeunt. FLEANCE, Son to Banquo. YOUNG SIWARD, his Son. SEYTON, an Officer attending on Macbeth. Son to Macduff. An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. A Soldier. A Porter. An old Man. LADY MACBETH. LADY MACDUFF. Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. HECATE, and three Witches. Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers. SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, General The Ghost of Banquo, and several other Appa of the English Forces. ritions. SCENE-In the end of the Fourth Act, lies in England; through the rest of the play, in Scotland: and, chiefly, at Macbeth's Castle ACT 1. SCENE I. An open place. Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches. 1 Witch. When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain 7 2 Witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. 3 Witch. That will be ere set of sun. 1 Witch. Where the place? 2 Witch. Upon the heath 3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. |