The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare ~ Full Audiobook
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the comedy of errors act i a hall in duke solinus's palace enter duke solinus a jane gaoler officers and other attendants proceed solinus to procure my fall and by the doom of death end woes and all

Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more! I am not partial to infringe our laws. The enmity and discord which of late sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke to merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, who wanting guilders to redeem their lives, have sealed his rigorous statutes with their bloods, excludes all pity from our threatening looks.

For since the mortal and intestine jars twixt thy seditious countrymen and us, it hath in solemn synods been decreed, both by the Syracusians and ourselves, to admit no traffic to our adverse towns, nay more, if any born at Ephesus be seen, at any Syracusian marts and fairs. Again, if any Syracusian born, come to the bay of Ephesus.

he dies his goods confiscate to the duke's dispose unless a thousand marks be levied to quit the penalty and to ransom him thy substance valued at the highest rate cannot amount unto a hundred marks therefore by law thou art condemn'd to die

Yet this my comfort, when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun. Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause Why thou departed'st from thy native home, And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus. A heavier task could not have been imposed Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

yet that the world may witness that my end was wrought by nature not by vile offence i'll utter what my sorrows give me leave in siracusa was i born and wed unto a woman happy but for me and by me had not our hap been bad with her i lived in joy our wealth increased by prosperous voyages i often made to epidamnum till my factor's death and the great care of goods at random left

drew me from kind embracements of my spouse from whom my absence was not six months old before herself almost at fainting under the pleasing punishment that women bear had made provision for her following me and soon and safe arrived where i was there had she not been long but she became a joyful mother of two goodly sons and which was strange the one so like the other as could not be distinguished but by names

that very hour and in the selfsame inn a meaner woman was delivered of such a burden male twins both alike those for their parents were exceeding poor i bought and brought up to attend my sons my wife not meanly proud of two such boys made daily motions for our home return unwilling i agreed alas too soon we came aboard

a league from epidamnum had we sailed before the always wind-abaying deep gave any tragic instance of our harm but longer did we not retain much hope for what obscured light the heavens did grant did but convey unto our fearful minds a doubtful warrant of immediate death which though myself would gladly have embraced

yet the incessant weepings of my wife weeping before for what she saw must come and piteous blenings of the pretty babes that mourned for fashion ignorant what to fear forced me to seek delays for them and me and this it was for other means was none the sailors sought for safety by our boat and left the ship then sinking ripe to us

my wife more careful for the latter born had fastened him unto a small spare mast such as seafaring men provide for storms to him one of the other twins was bound whilst i had been like heedful of the other the children thus disposed my wife and i fixing our eyes on whom our care was fixed

fastened ourselves at either end of the mast and floating straight obedient to the stream was carried towards corinth as we thought at length the sun gazing upon the earth dispersed those vapours that offended us and by the benefit of his wished light the seas waxed calm and we discovered two ships from far making amain to us of corinth that of epidaurus this

but ere they came o let me say no more gather the sequel by that went before king nay forward old man do not break off so for we may pity though not pardon thee lady o had the gods done so i had not now worthily term'd them merciless to us

for ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues we were encountered by a mighty rock which being violently borne upon our helpful ship was splitted in the midst so that in this unjust divorce of us fortune had left to both of us alike what to delight in what to sorrow for

her part poor soul seeming as burned with lesser weight but not with lesser woe was carried with more speed before the wind and in our sight they three were taken up by fishermen of corinth as we thought at length another ship had seized on us and knowing whom it was they're hap to save gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests and would have reft the fishes of their prey had not their bark been very slow of sail and therefore

Homeward did they bend their course, thus have you heard me severed from my bliss, that by misfortunes was my life prolonged, to tell sad stories of my own mishaps. And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for, do me the favour to dilate at full what hath befallen of them, and thee till now.

my youngest boy and yet my eldest care at eighteen years became inquisitive after his brother and importuned me that his attendant so his case was like reft of his brother but retained his name might bear him company in the quest of him

whom whilst i laboured of a love to see i hazarded the loss of whom i loved five summers have i spent in furthest greece roaming clean through the bounds of asia and coasting homeward came to ephesus hopeless to find yet loath to leave unsought or that or any place that harbours men but here must end the story of my life

and happy were i in my timely death could all my travels warrant me they live hapless aegion whom the fates have mark'd to bear the extremity of dire mishap

Now, trust me, were it not against our laws, against my crown, my oath, my dignity, which princes would they, may not disannul? My soul would sue as advocate for thee. But though thou art adjudged to the death, and passd sentence may not be recalled but to our honour's great disparagement, yet I will favour thee in what I can. Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day to seek thy life by beneficial help.

Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus, beg thou or borrow, to make up the sum, and live; if no, then thou art doom'd to die. Jailer, take him to thy custody. I will, my lord. Hopeless and helpless doth Aegean wend, but to procrastinate his lifeless end.

scene two the mart enter antipholus of syracuse dromio of syracuse and first merchant antipholus therefore give out that you are of epidamnum lest that your goods too should be confiscate

this very day a syracusian merchant is apprehended for a rival here and not being able to buy out his life according to the statute of the town dies ere the weary sun set in the west there is your money that i had to keep go bear it to the centre where we host and stay there dromio till i come to thee

Within this hour it will be dinner-time. Till that I'll view the manners of the town, peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings, and then return and sleep within mine inn, for with long travel I am stiff and weary. Get thee away. Many a man would take you at your word, and go indeed, having so good a mean. Exit. A trusty villain, sir, that very oft

when i am dull with care and melancholy lightens my humour with his merry jest what will you walk with me about the town and then go to my inn and dine with me i am invited sir to certain merchants of whom i hope to make much benefit i crave your pardon

soon at five o'clock please you i'll meet with you upon the mart and afterward consort you till bedtime my present business calls me from you now farewell till then i will go lose myself and wander up and down to view the city sir i commend you to your own content except he that commends me to mine own content

commends me to the thing i cannot get i to the world am like a drop of water that in the ocean seeks another drop who falling there to find his fellow-fourth unseen inquisitive confounds himself so i to find a mother and a brother in quest of them unhappy lose myself

enter dromuel of ephesus here comes the almanac of my true date what now how chance thou art returned so soon

return so soon rather approach too late the cap unburns the pig falls from the spit the clock hath struck in twelve upon the bell my mistress hath made it one upon my cheek she is so hot because the meat is cold the meat is cold because you come not home you come not home because you have no stomach you have no stomach having broke your fast but we that know what it is to fast and pray are penitent for your default to-day

stop in your wind sir tell me this i pray where have you left the money that i gave you oh sixpence that i had a wednesday last to pay the saddler for my mistress the saddler had it sir i kept it not i am not in a sportive humour now tell me and dally not where is the money

we being strangers here how darest thou trust so great a charge from thine own custody i pray you sir as you sit at dinner i for my mistress come to you in post if i return i shall be post indeed for she will score your faults upon my pate methinks your ma like mine should be your clock and strike you home without a messenger

come tromeo come these jests are out of season preserve them till a merrier hour than this where is the gold i gave in charge to thee to me sir why you gave no gold to me come on sir knave have done your foolishness and tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge

my charge was but to fetch you from the mart home to your house the phoenix sir to dinner my mistress and her sister stays for you duke of assisi in what safe place you have bestowed my money or i shall break that merry sconce of yours that stands on tricks when i am undisposed

where's the thousand marks thou hadst of me i have some marks of yours upon my pate some of my mistress marks upon my shoulder but not a thousand marks between you both if i should pay your worship those again perchance you would not bear them patiently thy mistress marks what mistress slave hast thou

your worship's wife my mistress at the phoenix she that doth fast till you come home to dinner and prays that you will hie you home to dinner what wilt thou flet me thus until my face being forbid there take your fact sir name what mean you sir for god's sake hold your hands nay and you will not sir i'll take my heels exit upon my life by some device or other the villain is o'erwrought of all my money

they say this town is full of cousinage as nimble jugglers that deceive the eye dark working sorcerers that change the mind soul-killing witches that deform the body disguised cheaters prating mountebanks and many such like liberties of sin if it proves so i will be gone the sooner

I'll to the center to go seek this slave. I greatly fear my money is not safe. Exit. End of Act 1. Membership means more with American Express Business Gold. Earn four times membership rewards points in your top two eligible spending categories every month, including eligible U.S. advertising purchases and select media, and U.S. purchases at restaurants, including takeout and delivery.

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Act II of The Comedy of Heirs by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or a volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Act II. Scene 1. The House of Antipolis of Ephesias. Enter Adriana and Luciana. Neither my husband, nor the slave returned that in such haste I sent to seek his master.

"'Sure, Luciana. It is two o'clock.' "'Perhaps some merchant hath invited him, and from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner. Good sister, let us dine in never fret. A man is master of his liberty. Time is their master, and when they see time, they'll go or come. If so, be patient, sister.' "'Why should their liberty than ours be more?' "'Because their business still lies out a door.' "'Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.'

oh no he is the bridle of your will there's none but asses will be bridled so why headstrong liberty is lashed with woe there's nothing situate under heaven's eye but hath his bound in earth and sea and sky the beasts the fishes and the winged fowls are their male subjects and at their controls men more divine the masters of all these lords of the wide world and wild watery seas endued with intellectual sense and souls of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls

Our masters to their females and their lords, then let your will attend on their accords. This servitude makes you keep unwed. Not this, but troubles of the marriage bed. But were you wedded, you would bear some sway. Ere I learn love, I'll practice to obey. How if your husband starts a motherware? Till he come home again, I would forbear.

Patience unmoved, no marvel though she pause, They can be meek that hath no other cause, A wretched soul bruised by adversity. We bid be quiet when we hear it cry, But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more as we ourselves complain, So thou, that hath no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience would relieve me. But if thou live to see the right bereft,

this fool begged patience in thee will be left. Well, I will marry one day, but to try. Here comes your man, now is your husband nigh. Enter Dromio of Ephesus. Say, is your tardy master now at hand? Nay, he is at two hands with me, and that my two ears can witness. Say, didst thou speak with him? Know'st thou his mind? Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear. Be sure his hand, I scarce could understand it. Spake he so doubtfully thou couldst not feel his meaning?

nay he struck so plainly i could too well feel his blows and withal so doubtfully that i could scarce understand them el but say i prithee is he coming home it seems he hath great care to please his wife el why mistress sure my master is horn mad

horn mad thou villain i mean not cuckold mad but sure he is dark mad when i desired him to come home to dinner he asked me for a thousand marks in gold tis dinner-time quoth i my gold quoth he your meat doth burn quoth i my gold quoth he where is the thousand marks i gave thee villain

the pig quoth i is burned my gold quoth he my mistress sir quoth i hang up thy mistress i know not thy mistress out upon thy mistress quoth who quoth my master i know quoth he no house no wife no mistress so that my errand due unto my tongue i thank him i bear home upon my shoulders for in conclusion he did beat me there go back again thy slave and fetch him home

go back again and be new beaten home for god's sake send some other messenger slave or i will break thy pate a cross and he will bless that cross with other beating between you i shall have a holy head hence prating peasant fetch thy master home am i so round with you as you with me that like a football you do spurn me thus you spurn me hence and he will spurn me hither if i last in this service you must case me in leather

Fie, how impatience loareth in your face! His company must do his minions grace, Whilst I at home starve for a merry look. Hath homely age the allured beauty Took from my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it. Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit? If voluble and sharp discourse be marred, Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard. Do their gay vestments his affections bait? That's not my fault. He's master of my state.

What ruins are in me that can be found, By him not ruins? Then he is the ground of my defeachers, My decaying fair, a sunny luck he would soon repair. But too unruly dear he breaks the pale, And feeds from home. Poor I am, but is stale. Self-harming jealousy, fie, beat it hence. Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense. I know his eye doth homage otherwhere, Or else what lets it?

he would be here sister you know he promised me a chain would that alone alone he would detain so he would keep the fairer quarter in his bed i see the jewel best enameled will lose his beauty yet the gold bides still and others touch and often touching will wear gold and no man that hath his name by falsehood and corruption doth it shame since that my beauty cannot please his eye

I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die. How many fond fools serve mad jealousy? Excellent. Scene 2, A Public Place, and Gerantopholis of Syracuse. The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up safe at the centre, and the heedful slave is wandered forth in care to seek me out.

by computation and mine host's report i could not speak with dromio since at first i sent him from the mart see here he comes enter dromio of syracuse

how now sir is your merry humour altered as you love strokes so jest with me again you note no centaur you receive no gold your mistress sent to have me home to dinner my house was at the phoenix wast thou mad that thus so madly thou didst answer me

what answer sir when spake i such a word phil even now even here not half an hour since i see you since you sent me hence home to the centaur with the gold you gave me phil thou didst deny the gold's receipt and toldst me of a mistress and a dinner for which i hope thou feltest i was displeased i am glad to see you in this merry vein

what means this jest i pray you master tell me doth thou jeer and flout me in the teeth think'st thou i jest oh take thou that and that beating him

hold sir for god's sake now you're just as earnest upon what bargain do you give it me because that i familiarly sometimes do use you for my fool and chat with you your sourceness will jest upon my love and make a common of my serious hours when the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport

but creep in crannies when he hides his beams if you will jest with me know my aspect and fashion your demeanour to my looks or i will beat this method in your sconce

sconce call you it so you would leave battering i had rather have it a head and you use these blows long i must get a sconce for my head and ensconce it too or else i shall seek my wit in my shoulders but i pray sir why am i beaten doth thou not know nothing sir but that i am beaten shall i tell you why ay sir and wherefore for they say every why hath a wherefore why first for flouting me

and then wherefore for urging it the second time to me was there ever any man thus beaten out of season when in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason well sir i thank you thank me sir for what marry sir for this something that you gave me for nothing i'll make you amends next to give you nothing for something but say sir is it dinner-time

No, sir. I think the meat wants that I have. In good time, sir. What's that? Basting. Well, sir, then 'twill be dry. If it be, sir, I pray you eat none of it. Your reason? Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another dry basting. Well, sir, learn to jest in good time. There's a time for all things.

I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric. By what rule, sir? Mary, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself. Let's hear it. There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature. May he not do it by fine and recovery? Yes, to pay a fine for a periwake and recover the lost hair of another man.

why is time such a niggard of hair being as it is so plentiful an excrement because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts and when he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit why but that many a man hath more hair than wit not a man of those but he hath the wit to loose his hair

why thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit the plainer dealer the sooner lost yet he lootheth it in a kind of jollity for what reason for two and sound ones too nay not sound i pray you sure ones then nay not sure in a thing forcing certain ones then

name them the one to save the money that he spends in trimming the other that at dinner they should not drop in his porridge you would all this time have proved there is no time for all things mary and did sir namely no time to recover hair lost by nature but your reason was not substantial why there is no time to recover

thus i mend it time himself is bald and therefore to the world's end will have bald followers i knew twould be a bald conclusion but sa who wafts us yonder enter adriana and luciana ay ay antipholus look strange and frown that some other mistress have thy sweet aspects

I am not Adriana, nor thy wife. The time was once when thou an urge would vow, that never words were music to thine ear, that never object pleasing in thine eye, that never touch well-welcome to thy hand, that never meet sweet savoured in thy taste, unless I spake or looked or touched or carved to thee.

how comes it now my husband oh how comes it that thou art thus estranged from thyself thyself i call it being strange to me that undividable incorporate and better than thy dear self's better part ah do not tear away thyself from me

for now my love as easy mayst thou fall a drop of water in the breaking gulf and take and mingle that same drop again without addition or diminishing as take from thyself and not me to how dearly would it touch me to the quick shouldst thou but hear i was licentious and that this body consecrate to thee by ruffian lust should be contaminate

Wouldst thou not spit at me, and spurn at me, and hurl the name of husband in my face, and tear the stained skin off my harlot brow, and from the false hand cut the wedding ring, and break it with deep divorcing vow? I know thou canst, and therefore see thou do it. I am possessed with an adulterous blot. My blood is mingled in the crime of lust. But if we two be one, and thou play false,

I do detest the poison of thy flesh being scrumpeted by thy contagion. Keep then far league and truce with thy bed. I live unstained, thou undishonored. Plead you to me, fair dame, I know you not. In Ephesus I am but two hours old, as strange unto your town as to your talk.

Who every word by all my wit being scanned, Want wit in all one word to understand. Fie, brother, how the world is changed with you! When were you wont to use my sister thus? She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner. By Dromio? By me?

by thee an thou'st did return from him that he did buffet thee and in his blows denied my house for his me for his wife did you converse so with this gentlewoman what is the course and drift of your compact ay sir i never saw her till this time villain thou liest for even her very words didst thou deliver to me on the mart i never spake with her in all my life

how can she thus then call us by our names unless it be by inspiration how ill agrees it with your gravity to counterfeit thus grossly with your slave abetting him to thwart me in my mood be it my wrong you are from me exempt but wrong not that wrong with more contempt come i will fasten the sleeve of thine

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married in thy strongest state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate. If aught possess from thee, it is dross and surfing ivy, Briar or idle moss, who, all for want of pruning, With intrusion infect thy sap and live on thy confusion. To me she speaks, she moves me for her theme.

what was i married to her in my dream or sleep i now and think i hear all this what error drives our eyes and ears amiss until i know this sure uncertainty i'll entertain the offered fallacy dromio go bid the servants spread for dinner

O for my beads, I cross me for a sinner. This is the fairyland of spite of spites. We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites. If we obey them not, this will ensue. They'll suck our breath or pinch us black and blue. Why, pray tost thou to thyself, and answerest not. Dromeo thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot. I am transformed, master, am I not? I think thou art in mind, and so am I. Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape.

Thou hast thine own form. No, I am an ape. If thou art changed to art, tis to an ass. Tis true, she rides me, and I long for grass. Tis so, I am an ass, else it could never be. But I should know her as well as she knows me. Come, come. No longer will I be a fool to put the finger in the eye and weep, whilst the man and masto laugh at my woes to scorn. Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate.

Husband, I'll dine above with you today, and shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. Sirrah, if any ask you for your master, say he dines forth, and let no creature enter. Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well. Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell, sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?

known unto these and to myself disguis'd i'll say as they say and persevere so and in this mist at all adventures master shall i be porter at the gate i and let none enter lest i break your pate come come antifolus we dine too late

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ACT III. SCENE I. BEFORE THE HOUSE OF ANTIFOLUS OF EPHESIUS. ENTER ANTIFOLUS OF EPHESIUS, DROMEO OF EPHESIUS, ANGELO, AND BALTHASAR.

good signor angelo you must excuse us all my wife is shrewish when i keep not ours say that i lingered with you at your shop to see the making of her carcanet and that to-morrow you will bring it home but here's a villain that would face me down he met me on the mart and that i beat him and charged him with a thousand marks in gold and that i did deny my wife and house thou drunkard thou what didst thou mean by this

say what you will sir but i know what i know that you beat me at the mark i have your hand to show if the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink your own handwriting would tell you what i think i think thou art an ass mary so it doth appear by the wrongs i suffer and the blows i bear i should kick be kicked and being at that pass you would keep from my heels and beware of an ass your sad signior balthazar pray god our cheer may answer my good will and your good welcome here

I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear. Oh, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish, A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. Good meat, sir, is common, that every churl affords. And welcome more common, for that's nothing but words. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

aye to a niggardly host and more sparing guest but though my capes be mean take them in good part better cheer may you have but not with better heart but soft my door is lock'd go bid them let us in maud bridget marion cecil gillian jinn dromio of syracuse within

moam malt-horse capon coxcomb idiot patch either get thee from the door or sit down at the hatch dost thou conjure for wenches that thou call'st for such store when one is too many go get thee from the door what patch has made our porter my master stays in the street dromio of syracuse within let him walk from whence he came lest he catch cold on his feet who talks within there ho open the door dromio of syracuse within

right sir i'll tell you when and you tell me wherefore wherefore from my dinner i have not dined to-day dromio of syracus within nor to-day here you must not come again when you may what art thou that keepest me out from the house i owe dromio of syracuse within

the porter for this time sir and my name is dromio oh villain thou hast stolen both mine office and my name the one ne'er got me credit the other mick'll blame if thou had been'st dromio to-day in my place thou wouldst have changed thy face for thy name or thy name for an ass loose within what a coil is there dromio who are those at the gate let my master in loose loose within faith no he comes too late and so tell your master

O Lord, I must laugh. Have at you with a proverb. Shall I set in my staff? Luce, within. Have at you with another that's... when? Can you tell? Dromio of Syracuse, within. If thy name be called Luce, Luce, thou hast answered him well. Do you hear, minion? You'll let us in, I hope.

luce within i thought to have asked you dromio of syracuse within and you said no so come help well struck there was blow for blow thou baggage let me in

Loose, within. Can you tell for whose sake? Master, knock the door hard. Loose, within. Let him knock till it ache. You'll cry for this minion if I beat the door down. Loose, within. What needs all that and a pair of stalks in the town? Adriana, within. Who is that at the door that keeps all this noise? Dromio of Syracuse, within.

by my troth your town is troubled with unruly boys are you there wife you might have come before adriana within your wife sir knave go get you from the door if you went in pain master this knave would go sore here is neither cheer sir nor welcome we with pain have either in debating which was best we shall part with neither they stand at the door master bid them welcome hither

there is something in the wind that we cannot get in you would say so master if your garments were thin your cake there is warm within you stand here in the cold it would make a man mad as buck to be so bought and sold go fetch me something i'll break up the gate dromio of syracuse within break any breaking here and i'll break your name's pate a man may break a word with you sir and words are but wind i can break it in your face so we break it not behind

gromeo of syracuse within it seem thou won'ts breaking out upon thee hind here's too much out upon thee i pray thee let me in gromeo of syracuse within ay when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin

Well, I'll break in. Go borrow me a crow. A crow without feather? Master, mean you so? For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather. If a crow help us in, sir, I will pluck a crow together. Go get thee, con. Fetch me an iron crow. Have patience, sir. Oh, let it not be so. Herein you war against your reputation and draw within the compass of suspect the unviolated honour of your wife.

Once this, your long experience of her wisdom, her sober virtue, years and modesty, plead on her part some cause to you unknown; and doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse why at this time the doors are made against you. Be ruled by me. Depart in patience, and let us to the Tiger all to dinner; and about evening come yourself alone, to know the reason of this strange restraint.

If by strong hand you offer to break in now, in the stirring passage of the day, a vulgar comment will be made of it, and that supposed by the common route, against your yet ungulld estimation, that may with foul intrusion enter in, and dwell upon your grave, when you are dead. For slander lives upon succession, forever housed where it gets possession.

you have prevailed i will depart in quiet and in despite of mirth mean to be merry i know a wench of excellent discourse pretty and witty wild and yet too gentle there will we dine this woman that i mean my wife but i protest without desert hath oftentimes upbraided me withal to her will we to dinner ang get you home and fetch the chain

by this i know tis made bring it i pray you to the porpentine for there's the house that chain will i bestow be it for nothing but to spite my wife upon my hostess there good sir make haste since mine own doors refuse to entertain me i'll knock elsewhere to see if they'll disdain me i'll meet you at that place some hour hence do so this jest shall cost me some expense

Exxon'd, scene two, the same, enter Luciana and Antipholus of Syracuse. And may it be that you have quite forgot a husband's office, shall Antiphilus, even in the spring of love thy love-springs wrought, shall love in building grow so ruinous? If you did wed my sister for her wealth, then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness, or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth, muffle your false love with some show of blindness, let not

Let not my sister read it in your eye. Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. Look sweet, be fair, become disloyalty. Apparel vice like Virtue's harbinger.

Wear a fair present, so your heart be tainted. Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint. Be secret false, what need she be acquainted? What simple thief brags of his own attaint? 'Tis double wrong to truant with your bed, And let her read it in thy looks at board. Shame hath a bastard fame well managed. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. Alas, poor woman, make us but believe, Be in compact of credit that you love us.

though others have the arm show us the sleeve we in your motion turn and you may move us then gentle brother get you in again comfort my sister cheer her call her wife tis holy sport to be a little vain when the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife sweet mistress what your name is else i know not nor by what wonder you do hit of mine

less in your knowledge and your grace you show not than our earth's wonder more than earth divine teach me dear creature how to think and speak lay open to my earthy gross conceit smothered in errors feeble shallow weak

the folded meaning of your words deceit against my soul's pure truth why labor you to make it wander in an unknown field are you a god would you create me new transform me then and to your power i'll yield

but if that i am i then well i know your weeping sister is no wife of mine

nor to her bed no homage do i owe far more far more to you do i decline oh train me not sweet mermaid with thy note

to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears sing siren for thyself and i will dote spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs

and as a bed i'll take them and their lie and in that glorious supposition think he gains by death that hath such means to die let love being like be drown'd if she sink

what are you mad that you do reason so? not mad but mated how i do not know. it is a fault that springeth from your eye. for gazing on your beams fair sun being by. gaze where you should and that will clear your sight. as good to wink sweet love as look on night. why call you me love call my sister so.

Thy sister's sister. That's my sister. No, it is thyself, mine own self's better part. Mine eyes, clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart. My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim. My soul, earth's heaven, and my heaven's claims.

all this my sister is or else should be. call thyself sister sweet for i am thee thee will i love and with thee lead my life thou hast no husband yet nor i no wife give me thy hand. oh soft air hold you still i'll fetch my sister to get her good will

exit enter dromio of syracuse why how now dromio where runn'st thou so fast do you know me sir am i dromio am i am i thyself thou art dromio thou art my man thou art thyself

I am an ass, I am a woman's man, and besides myself. What woman's man? And how besides thyself, besides thyself? Merry sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman, one that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me. What claim lays she to thee? Merry sir, such claim as you would lady your horse, and she would have me as a beast. Not that I, being a beast, she would have me, but that she, being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me.

what is she lady a very reverent body ay such a one as a man may not speak of without he say so reverence i have but lean luck in the match and yet she is a wondrous fat marriage lord how dost thou mean a fat marriage

marry sir she's the kitchen-wind in all greece and i know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light i warrant her rags and the towel in them will burn a poland winter if she lives till doomsday she'll burn a week longer than the whole world what complexion is she of sore like my shoe but her face nothing half so clean kept for why she sweats a man may go over shoes in the grime of it

that's a fault that water will mend no sir she's ingrain'd noah's flood could not do it what's her name now sir but her name in three quarters that's an ell in three quarters will not measure her from hip to hip then she bears some breadth no longer from head to foot than from hip to hip she is spherical like a globe i could find out countries in her in what part of her body stands ireland

Mary, in her buttocks, I found it out by the bogs. Where Scotland? I found it by the barrenness, hard in the palm of the hand. Where France? In her forehead, armed and reverted, making war against her heir. Where England? I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no whiteness in them. But I guess it stood in her chin, by the salt room that ran between France and it. Where Spain? Faith, I saw it not, but I felt it hot in her breath.

where america the indies o sir upon her nose all orbelish with rubies carbuncles sapphires declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of spain who sent whole armadillos of cracks to be ballast at her nose where stood belgia the netherland

oh sir i did not look so low to conclude this drudgered diviner laid claim to me called me dromio swore i was a sherd to her told me what private marks i had about me as the mark of my shoulder the mole in my neck the great wart on my left arm that i amazed ran from her as a witch and i think if my breath had not been made of faith in my heart of steel she had transformed me to a curtailed dog and made me turn in the wheel

go hie thee presently post to the road and if the wind blow any way from shore i will not harbour in this town to-night if any bar put forth come to the mart where i will walk till thou return to me if every one knows us and we know none tis time i think to trudge pack and be gone as from a bear a man would run for his life so fly i from her that would be my wife

Exit. There's none but witches do inhabit here, and therefore tis high time that I were hence. She that doth call me husband, even my soul doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister, possessed with such a gentle sovereign grace, of such enchanting presence and discourse, hath almost made me traitor to myself.

but lest myself be guilty to self-wrong i'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song enter angelo with the chain ang master antipolis ang ay that's my name ang i know it well sir oh here is the chain i thought to obtain you at porpentine the chain unfinished made me stay thus long

What is your will that I shall do with this? What please yourself, sir? I have made it for you. Made it for me, sir? I bespoke it not. Not once nor twice, but twenty times you have. Go home with it, and please your wife withal, and soon at supper-time I'll visit you, and then receive my money for the chain.

I pray you, sir, receive the money now, for fear you nasty chain no money more. You are a merry man, sir. Fare you well. Exit. What I should think of this I cannot tell, but this I think. There's no man is so vain that would refuse so fair an offered chain. I see a man here needs not live by shifts, when in the streets he meets such golden gift.

I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio's day, if any ship put out, then straight away. Exit. End of Act 3. You're listening to Classic Audiobook Collection. Give us five stars and share with a friend who likes free audiobooks as much as we do. Now back to the show. Act 4 of The Comedy of Errors.

by william shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox dot org act four scene one a public place under second merchant angelo and an office you know since pentecost the sum is due and since i have not much importuned you or now i had not but that i am bound to persia and want guilders for my voyage

therefore make present satisfaction or i'll attach you by this officer even just the sum that i do owe to you is growing to me by antipolis and in the instant that i met with you he had of me a chain at five o'clock i shall receive the money for the same pleaseth you walk with me down to his house i will discharge my bond and thank you too

enter into the house of ephesus and draw me to ephesus in courtesan that labour may you save see where he comes while i go to the goldsmith's house go thou and buy a rope's end that i will bestow among my wife and her confederates for locking me out of my doors by day but soft i see the goldsmith get thee gone buy thou a rope and bring it home to me i buy a thousand pound a year i buy a rope

a man as well holp up that trusts to you i promised your presence and the chain but neither chain nor goldsmith came to me belike you thought our love would last too long if it were chained together and therefore came not saving your merry humour here's the note how much your chain weighs to the utmost

the fineness of the gold in changeful fashion which doth amount to three odd ducats more than i stand debted to this gentleman i pray you see him presently discharged for he is bound to see and stays but for it

i am not furnished with the present money besides i have some business in the town good signor take the stranger to my house and with you take the chain and bid my wife disperse the sum on the receipt thereof

perchance i will be there as soon as you then you will bring the chain to her yourself no bear it with you lest i come not time enough well sir i will have you the chain about you and if i have it not sir i hope you have or else you may return without your money nay come i pray you sir give me the chain

both wind and tide stays for this gentleman and i to blame held him here too long good lord you use this dalliance to excuse your breach of promise to the porpentine i should have chid you for not bringing it but like a shrew you first began to brawl the hour steals on i pray you sir dispatch

you hear how he importunes me the chain why give it to my wife and fetch your money come come you know i gave it you even now either send the chain or send me some token

Fie! Now you run this humour out of breath. Where's the chain? I pray you, let me see it. My business cannot brook this stallion's. Good sir, say whether you'll answer me or no. If not, I'll leave him to the officer. I answer you? What should I answer you? The money that you owe me for the chain. I owe you none till I receive the chain. You know I gave it you half an hour since.

'You gave me none; you wrong me much to say so.'

You wrong me, sir, in denying it. Consider how it stands upon my credit. Well, officer, arrest him at my suit. I do, and charge you in the Duke's name to obey me. This touches me in reputation. Either consent to pay the sum for me, or I attach you by this officer. Consent to pay thee that I never had?

arrest me foolish fellow if thou darest here is i fee arrest him officer i would not spare my brother in this case if he should scorn me so apparently i do arrest you sir you hear the suit i do obey thee till i give thee bail but sirrah you shall buy this sport as near as all the metal in your shop will answer

Sir, sir, I will have law in Ephesus. To your notorious shame, I doubt it not. Enter Dromio of Syracuse from the bay.

master there is a bark of epidamnum that stays but till her owner comes aboard and then sir she bears away our froddage sir i have conveyed aboard and i have bought the oil the balsamum and aqua vitae the ship is in her trim the merry wind though as far from land they stay for naught at all but for their owner master and yourself now now i'm a madman why thou peepish sheep what ship of epidamnum stays for me

a ship you sent me to to hire waftage that drunken slave i sent thee for a rope and told thee to what purpose and what end you sent me for a rope's end as soon you sent me to the baser for a bark i will debate this matter at more leisure and teach your ears to list me with more heed

to adriana villain heidi street give her this key and tell her in the desk that's covered o'er with turkish tapestry there is a purse of ducats let her send it tell her i am arrested in the street and that shall bail me heidi slave begone on officer to prison till it come bexuyn's second merchant angelo officer and antipholus of ephesus

to adriana that is where we dined where dausabelle did claim me for her husband she is too big i hope for me to compass thither i must although against my will for servants must their masters minds fulfil exit scene to the house of antipolis of ephesus enter adriana and luciana adriana ah luciana did he tempt thee so

mightst thou perceive austerity in his eyes that he did plead in earnest yea or nay look he red or pale or sad or merry what observation madest thou in this case of his heart's meteors tilting in his face first he denied you had in him no right

He meant he did me none the more my spite. Then swore that he was a stranger here. And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were. Then I pleaded for you. And what said he? That love I begged for you he begged of me. With what persuasion did he tempt thy love? With words that in an honest suit might move. First he did praise my beauty, then my speech. Did speak him fair?

Have patience, I beseech. I cannot, nor will not, hold me still. My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will. He is deformed, crooked, old and seer, ill-faced, worst-bodied, shapeless everywhere, vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

Who would be jealous then of such a one? No evil last is wailed when it is gone. Ah, but I think him better than I say, and yet would herein others' eyes were worse. Far from her nest that Lapwing cries away, my heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse. Enter Dromio of Syracuse. Here, go, the desk, the purse, sweet now, make haste. How hast thou lost thy breath?

By running fast. Where is thy muster, Dromio? Is he well? No, he's in tartar limbo, worse than hell, A devil in an everlasting garment hath him, One whose hard heart is buttoned up with steel, A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough, A wolf, nay worse, a fellow all in buff, A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that counter-mans, The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands, A hound that runs counter and yet draws dry foot-well, One that before the judgment carries poor souls to hell. Why, my lord?

Why, man, what is the matter? I do not know the matter. He is arrested on the case. What? Is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit. I know not at whose suit he is arrested well, but he is in a suit of buff which rested him. That can I tell. Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk? Go fetch it, sister. Exit Luciana. This I wonder at, that he, unknown to me, should be in debt. Tell me, was he arrested on a band?

not on a band but on a stronger thing a chain a chain do you not hear it ring what the chain no no the bell tis time that i were gone it was two ere i left him and now the clock strikes one the hour's come back that did i never hear oh yes if any hour made a sergeant awe turns back for very fear

As if time were in debt! How fondly dost thou reason! Time is very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth to a season. Nay, he's a thief toon, have you not heard men say That time comes stealing on by night and day? If time be in debt and theft, and the sergeant in the way, Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day? Go, Dromio, there's the money. Bear it straight, and bring thy master home immediately.

come sister i am pressed down with conceit conceit my comfort on my injury scene three a public place enter antipholus of syracuse there's not a man i meet but doth salute me as if i were their well-acquainted friend and every one doth call me by my name

some tender money to me some invite me some other give me thanks for kindnesses some offer me commodities to buy even now a tailor called me in his shop and showed me silks that he had bought for me and therewithal took measure of my body sure these are but imaginary wiles and lapland sorcerers inhabit here

Enter Dromio of Syracuse. Master, here's the gold you sent me for. What? Have you got the picture of old Adam, new appareled? What gold is this, what Adam? Dost thou mean? Not that Adam that kept the paradise, but that Adam that keeps the prison. He that goes in the calfskin that was killed for the prodigal. He that came behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you forsake your liberty. I understand thee not.

no why tis a plain case he that went like a base veal in a case of leather the man sir that when gentlemen are tired gives them a sob and rests them he sir that takes pity on decayed men he is with suits of durance he that sets up his rest to do more exploits with his mates than a morris-pike what thou meanest an officer i sir the sergeant of the band he that brings any man to answer it that breaks his band one that thinks a man always going to bed and says god give you good rest

well sir there rest in your foolery is there any why sir i brought you word an hour since that the bark expedition put forth to-night and then were you hindered by the sergeant to tarry for the holy delay here the angels that you sent for should deliver you the fellow is distract and so am i and here we wander in illusions

Some blessed power deliver us from hence. Century courtesan. Well met, well met, Master Antiphilus. I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now. Is that the chain you promised me today? Satan, avoid. I charge thee, tempt me not. Master, is this Mr. Satan? It is the devil.

nay she is worse she is the devil's dam and here she comes in the habit of a light wench and there comes the wenches that say god damn me that's as much as to say god make me a light wench it is written they appear to men like angels of light lighten is effected fire and fire will burn ergo light wenches will burn come not near her your man and you are marvellous mary sir will you go with me we'll mend our dinner here mrs hushabye master if you do expect spoon-meat or bespeak a long spoon

why dromio mary he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil avoid then fiend what tell'st thou me of supping thou art as you are all a sorceress i conjure thee to leave me and be gone

give me the ring of mine you had at dinner or for my diamond the chain you promised and i'll be gone sir and not trouble you some devils ask but the parings of one's nail a rush a hair a drop of blood a pin and that a cherry stone but she more covetous would have a chain master be wise and if you give it her the devil will shake her chain and fright us with it i pray you sir my ring or else the chain i hope you do not mean to cheat me so

upon thy witch come dromio let us go fly prize says the peacock mischiefs that you know exwint antipholus of syracuse and dromio of syracuse now out of doubt antipholus is mad else would he never so demean himself a ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats and for the same he promised me a chain

both one and other he denies me now the reason that i gather he is mad besides this present instance of his rage is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner of his own doors being shut against his entrance belike his wife acquainted with his fits on purpose shut the doors against his way

my way is now to hie home to his house and tell his wife that being lunatic he rushed into my house and took perforce my ring away this course i fittest choose for forty ducats is too much to lose

scene four a street enter antipholus of ephesus and the officer fear me not man i will not break away i'll give thee ere i leave thee so much money to warrant thee as i am rested for my wife is in a wayward mood to-day and will not lightly trust the messenger that i should be attached in ephesus

i tell you twill sound harshly in her ears said dr jomeel with emphasis with a robed hand here comes my man i think he brings the money how now sir have you that i sent you for here's that i warrant you will pay them all

but where's the money why sir i gave the money for the rope five hundred ducats fillin for a rope i'll serve you sir five hundred at the rate to what end did i bid thee hie thee home to a rope's end sir and to that end am i return'd and to that end sir i will welcome you good sir be patient nay tis for me to be patient i am in adversity

good now hold thy tongue nay rather persuade him to hold his hands the wholesome senseless villain i would i were senseless sir that i might not feel your blows

that wots sensible in nothing but blows and so is an ass i am an ass indeed you may prove it by my long ears i've served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant and i've 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 home welcomed home with it when i return nay i bear it on my shoulders as a beggar wants her brat and i think when he hath lain me i shall beg with it from door to door come go along my wife is coming yonder enter adriana luciana the courtesan and pinch

mistress respis finem respect your end or rather the prophecy like the parrot beware the rope's end will thou still talk beating him how say you now is not your husband mad his incivility confirms no less

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

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 peace doting wizard peace i am not mad oh that thou wert not poor distressed soul you minion you are these your customers

did this companion with the saffron face revel and feasted at my house to-day whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut and i denied to enter in my house lady

God doth know you dined at home, Where you had remained until this time, Free from these slanders and this open shame. Dined at home? Thou villain, what sayest thou? Sir sooth to say you did not dine at home. Were not my doors locked up, and I shut out? Purdy, your doors were locked, and you shut out. And did not she herself revile me there? Sounds fable; she herself reviled you there.

did not wreckage in me rail taunt and scorn me she did the kitchen vestal scorned you and did not i in rage depart from thence in verity you did my bones bear witness that since have felt the vigor of his rage is't good to sooth him in these contraries

It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein, And yielding to him humours well his frenzy. Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me. Alas, I sent you money to redeem you; Pyedromio here, who came in haste for it. Money by me? Hurt and good will you might, But surely, master, not a rag of money. Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats? He came to me, and I delivered it. And I am witness with her that she did.

God and the rope-maker bear me witness that I was sent for nothing but a rope. Mistress, both man and master is possessed. I know it by their pale and deadly looks. They must be bound and laid in some dark room. Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day, and why dost thou deny me the bag of gold? I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth. And, gentle master, I received no gold, but I confess, sir, that we were locked out.

Dissembling villain, thou speakest false in both. Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all, and art confederate with a damnate pact 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 spot enter three or four and offer to bind him he strives oh bind him bind him let him not come near me more company the fiend is strong within him ay me poor man how pale and wan he looks

will you murder me thou jailer thou i am thy prisoner wilt thou suffer them to make a rescue he master let him go he is my prisoner and you shall not have him phaedrus go bind this man for he is frantic too phaedrus offer to bind dromio of ephesus

What wilt thou do, peevish officer? Hast thou delight to see a wretched man do outrage and displeasure to himself? He is my prisoner. If I let him go, the debt he owes will be required of me. I will discharge thee ere I go from thee. Bear me forthwith unto his creditor. And knowing how the debt grows, I will repay it. Good master doctor, see him safe conveyed home to my house. O most unhappy day! O most unhappy scumpert!

master i am enter'd here in bond for you adrian out on thee villain wherefore dost thou mad me adria will you be bound for nothing be mad good master cry the devil adrian god help poor souls how idly do they talk i am hence sister go you with me adrian exuant all but adriana luciana officer and courtesan adria say now

whose suit is he arrested at? one angelo, a goldsmith. do you know him? i know the man. what is the sum he owes? two hundred ducats. say, how grows it due? due for a chain your husband had of him. he did bespeak a chain from me, but had it not? when as your husband, all enraged 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. it may be so, but i did never see it.

come jailer bring me where the goldsmith is i long to know the truth hereof at large enter antipolis of syracuse with his rapier drawn andromio of syracuse god for thy mercy they are loose again and come with naked swords

and let's call more help to have these bound again. Away, they'll kill us! Exuent all but Antipholus of Syracuse and Romeo of Syracuse. I see these witches are afraid of swords. She that would be your wife now ransomed you. Come to the centre, fetch our stuff from thence. I long that we were safe and sound aboard.

Faye, stay here this night. They will surely do us no harm. You saw they speak us fair, give us gold. Me thinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage with me, I could find in my heart to stay here still, and turn witch. I will not stay tonight for all the town. Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard. Exsunt. End of Act 4.

ACT V. SCENE I. A STREET BEFORE A PRIORY. ENTER SECOND VIRGIN AND ANGELO.

i am sorry sir that i have hindered you but i protest he had the chain of me though most dishonestly he doth deny it how is the man esteemed here in the city a very reverent 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

speak softly yonder as i think he walks enter antipolus of syracuse and dromio of syracuse 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 signor antipolus i wonder much that you would put me to the shame and trouble and not without some scandal to yourself

with circumstances 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 today the chain you had of me. Can you deny it?

i think i had i never did deny it yes that you did sir and forswore it too who heard me to deny it or forswear it these ears of mine thou know'st did hear thee fire on thee wretch tis pity that thou livest to walk where any honest man resort thou art a villain to impeach me thus

I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty against thee presently, if thou darest stand. I dare, and do thee fighty for a villain. They draw. Enter Adriana, Luciana, Cortesun, and others. 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.

run master run for god's sake take a house this is some priory in or we are spoiled xwynn phyllis of syracuse and dromio of syracuse to the priory enter the lady abess amelia be quiet people wherefore throng you hither to fetch my poor distracted husband hence that we may bind him fast and bear him home for his recovery i knew he was not in his perfect wits

i am sorry now that i did draw on him how long hath this possession held the man this week he hath been heavy sour sad and so much different from the man he was but till this afternoon his passion ne'er brake into extremity of rage hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea

Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye strayed 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? To none of these, except it be the last. Namely, some love that drew him oft from home. You should for that have reprehended him. Why, so I did. Ay, but not rough enough.

as roughly as my modesty would let me. Happily in private. And in assemblies too. Aye, but not enough. 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. It was subject to my theme. In company I often glanced it. Still, did I tell him it was vile and bad? And thereof came it that the man was mad.

the venom clamors of a jealous woman poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth it seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing and therefore comes it that his head is light thou sayest 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 sayest his sports were hindered by thy brawls

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsmen 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 disturbed, would mad or man or beast. The consequence is, then, thy jealous fits have scared thy husband from the use of wits.'

She never reprehended him but mildly, When he demean'd himself rough, rude, and wildly. Why bear you these rebukes, and answer not? She did betray me to my own reproof. Good people enter, and lay hold on him.

No, not a creature enters in my house. Then let your servants bring my husband forth. Neither. He took this place for sanctuary, and it shall privilege him from your hands till I have brought him to his wits again, or lose my labour in assaying it. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, die at his sickness, for it is my office, and I will have no attorney but myself, and therefore let me have him home with me.

be patient for i will not let him stir till i have used the approved means i have with wholesome syrups drugs and holy prayers to make of him a formal man again it is a branch and parcel of mine oath a charitable duty of my order therefore depart and leave him here with me i will not hence unleave my husband here and ill it doth beseem your holiness to separate the husband and the wife

be quiet and depart thou shalt not have him exit complain unto the duke of this indignity come go i will fall prostrate at his feet and never rise until my tears and prayers have won his grace to come in person thither and take perforce my husband from the abbess

by this i think the dial points at five anon i'm sure the duke himself in person comes this way to the melancholy vale the place of death and sorry execution behind the ditches of the abbey here upon what cause to see a reverend syracusian merchant who put unluckily into dismay against the laws and statutes of this town beheaded publicly for his offence see where they come we will behold his death

kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey enter duke solinus attend gian bareheaded with the headsman and other officers yet once again proclaim it publicly if any friend will pay the sum for him he shall not die so much we tender him justice most sacred duke against the abbess she is a virtuous and reverend lady it cannot be that she have done thee wrong

May it please your grace, Antiphilus, my husband, whom I made lord of me and all I had, at your important letters, this ill day a most outrageous fit of madness took him, that desperately he hurried through the streets with him his bondman, all as mad as he, doing displeasure to the citizens by rushing into their houses, bearing thence rings, jewels, anything his rage did like.

Once did I get him bound and sent him home, Whilst to take orders for the wrongs I went, That here and there his fury had committed, Anon I wot not by what strong escape, He broke from those that had guard of him, And with his mad attendant and himself, Each one with ireful passion, and drawn swords, Met us again and madly bent on us, Chased us away, till, rising of more aid, We come again to bind them.

then they fled into the abbey whither we pursued them and here the abbess shuts the gate on us and will not suffer us to fetch him out nor send him forth that we may bear him hence therefore most gracious duke with thy command let him be brought forth and borne hence for help

Long since thy husband served me in my wars, and I to thee engaged a prince's word, when thou didst make him master of thy bed, to do him all the grace and good I could. Go, some of you, knock at the abbey gate, and bid the lady Abbess come to me. I will determine this before I stir. Enter a servant.

O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself. My master and his man are both broke loose, beaten the maids a row, and bound the doctor, whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire. And ever as it blazed they threw on him great pails of puddle the mire to quench the hair. My master preaches patience to him, and the while his man with scissors nicks him like a fool. And sure, unless you send some present help, between them they will kill the conjurer.

Peace, fool! Thy master and his man are here, and that is false thou dost report to us. Mistress, upon my life I tell you true. I have not breathed almost since I did see it. He cries for you and vows, if he can take you, to scorch your face and to disfigure you. Cry with them. Hark! hark! I hear her, mistress. Fly, be gone. Come, stand by me, fear nothing. Guard with halberds. Ay, me? It is my husband.

witness you that he was born about invisible even now we housed him in that abbey here and now he's there past thought of human reason enter antipolis of ephesus and dromio of ephesus justice most gracious duke o grant me justice even for the service that long since i did thee when i bestrid thee in the wars and took deep scars to save thy life even for the blood that then i lost for thee now grant me justice

unless the fear of death doth make me dote i see my son antiphilus and dromio ant just a sweet prince against that woman there she whom thou gavest to me to be my wife that hath abused and dishonoured me even in the strength and height of injury beyond imagination is the wrong that she this day hath shameless thrown on me ant discover how and thou shalt find me just

This day, great duke, she shuts the doors upon me, while she with harlots feasted in my house. A grievous fault! Say, woman, didst thou so? No, my good lord; myself, he, and my sister to-day did dine together. So before my soul, as this is false, he burdens me withal. Nor may I look on day, nor sleep on night, but she tells to your highness simple truth.

O perjured woman, they are both forsworn; in this the madman justly charges them. My liege, I am advised what I say, neither disturbed with the effect of wine, nor heavy rash, provoked with aging ire, albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad. This woman locked me out this day from dinner.

that goldsmith there were he not packed with her could witness it for he was with me then who parted with me to go fetch a chain promising to bring it to the porpentine where balthasar and i did dine together

our dinner done and he not coming thither i went to seek him in the street i met him and in his company that gentleman there did this perjured goldsmith swear me down that i this day of him received the chain which god he knows i saw not for the which he did arrest me with an officer i did obey and sent my peasant home for certain ducats he with none returned

then fairly i bespoke the officer to go in person with me to my house by the way we met my wife her sister and a rabble more of vile confederates along with them they brought one

A hungry, lean-faced villain, a mere anatomy, a mountebank, a threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller, a needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, a dead-looking man. This pernicious slave-forsooth took on him as a conjurer, and gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, and with no face as to her, out-facing me, cries out, "I was possessed!"

then altogether they fell upon me bound me bore me thence and in a dark and dankish vault at home there left me and my man both bound together gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder i gained my freedom and immediately ran hither to your grace whom i beseech to give me ample satisfaction for these deep shames and great indignities

my lord in truth thus far i witness with him that he dined not at home but was locked out but had he such a chain of the urnol he had my lord and when he ran in here these people saw the chain about his neck

besides i will be sworn these ears of mine heard you confess you had the chain of him after you first forswore it on the mart and thereupon i drew my sword on you and then you fled into this abbey here from whence i think you are come by miracle i never came within these abbey walls nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me i never saw that chain so help me heaven and this is false you burden me withal

why what an intricate impeach is this i think you have all drunk of circe's cup if here you housed him here he would have been if he were mad he would not plead so coldly you say he dined at home the goldsmith here denies that saying sirrah what say you sir he dined with her there at the porpentine he did and from my finger snatched that ring tis true my liege this ring i had of her

Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here? ASSURE, MALEGE, AS I DO SEE YOUR GRACE. Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither. I think you are all mated or stark mad. EXIT 1 TO ABBESS. Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word. Happily I see a friend will save my life, and pay the sum that may deliver me. Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt.

"'Is not your name, sir, called Antiphilus? And is not that your bondman, Dromio?' "'Within this hour I was his bondman, sir, but he, I thank him, not in two my cords. Now am I Dromio and his man done bound.' "'I am sure you both of you remember me.' "'Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you, for lately we were bound as you are now. You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?' "'Why, look you strange on me. You know me well.'

I never saw you in my life till now. Oh, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, and careful hours, with time's deformed hand, have written strange de-features in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice? Neither. Dromio, nor thou? No, trust me, sir, nor I. I am sure thou dost.

ay sir but i am sure i do not and whatsoever a man denies you are now bound to believe him not know my voice o time's extremity hast thou so cracked and splitted my poor tongue in seven short years that here my only son knows not my feeble key of untuned cares though now this grained face of mine be hid in sap consuming winter's drizzled snow

and all the conduits of my blood froze up yet hath my night of life some memory my wasting lamps some fading glimmer left my dull ears a little used to hear all these old witnesses i cannot err tell me thou art my son antipholus antipholus i never saw my father in my life

but seven years since in syracusa boy thou know'st we parted but perhaps my son thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery the duke and all that know me in the city can witness with me that it is not so i never saw syracusa in my life

i tell thee syracusian twenty years have i been patron to antiphilus during which time he ne'er saw circucia i see thy age and dangers make thee dote re-enter emilio with antiphilus of syracuse and dromio of syracuse most mighty duke behold a man much wrong'd all gather to see them i see two husbands

all mine eyes deceive me one of these men is genius to the other and so of these which is the natural man and which the spirit who deciphereth them sir andromio command him away ay sir andromio pray let me stay aegion art thou not or else his ghost o my old master who hath bound him here

"'Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds, and gain a husband by his liberty. Speak, old Aegean, if thou beest the man that hadst a wife once, called Amelia, that bore thee at a burden two fair sons. Oh, if thou beest the same Aegean, speak, and speak unto the same Amelia.' "'If I dream not, thou art Amelia.'

"'If thou art she, tell me where is that sun that floated with thee on the fatal raft?' "'By men of Epidamnum. He and I and the twin Dromio all were taken up, but by and by rude fishermen of Corinth by force took Dromio and my son from them, and me they left with those men of Epidamnum. What then became of them? I cannot tell. Ay, to this fortune that you see me in!'

why here begins his morning story right these two antiphiluses these two soul-like and these two dromios one in semblance besides her urging of her wreck at sea these are the parents to these children which accidentally are met together antiphilus thou camest from corinth first ant no sir not i i came from syracuse ant stay stand apart i know not which is which

i came from corinth my most gracious lord and i with him brought to this town by that most famous warrior duke menaphon your most renowned uncle which of you two did dine with me to-day duke i gentle mistress and are not you my husband duke no i say nay to that

"'And so do I. Yet did she call me so, and this fair gentle woman, her sister here, did call me brother.' "'Pelusiana.' "'What I told you then I hope I shall have leisure to make good, if this be not a dream I see and hear.' "'That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.' "'I think it be, sir. I deny it not.'

and you sir for this chain arrested me i think i did sir i deny it not i sent you money sir to be your bail by dromio but i think he bought it not no none by me this purse of ducats i received from you and dromio my man did bring them me

i see we still did meet each other's man and i was ta'en for him and he for me and thereupon these errors are a rose these ducats pawn i for my father here it shall not need thy father hath his life sir i must have that diamond from you there take it and much thanks for my good cheer

"'Renowned Duke, vouchsafe to take the pains to go with us, into the abbey here, and here at large discoursed all our fortunes. And all that are assembled in this place, that by this sympathized one day's error have suffered wrong, go keep us company, and we shall make full satisfaction. Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail of you, my sons, and till this present hour my heavy burden ne'er delivered.'

the duke my husband and my children both and you the calendars of their nativity go to a gossips feast and go with me after so long grief such festivity with all my heart i'll gossip at this feast all but antipholus of syracuse antipholus of ephesus dromio of syracuse and dromio of ephesus master shall i fetch your stuff from shipboard

Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embarked? Your good Stileia hoster in the centaur. He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio. Come, go with us. We'll look to that anon. Embrace thy brother there. Rejoice with him. X-Winged the Antipolis of Syracuse and the Antipolis of Ephesus.

there is a fat friend at your master's house that kitchened me for you to-day at dinner she now shall be my sister not my wife methinks you are my glass and not my brother i see by you i am a sweet-faced youth will you walk in to see their gossiping not i sir you are my elder that's a question how shall we try it we'll draw cuts for the seigneur till then lead thou first nay then thus we came into the world like brother and brother now let's go in hand not one before another

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