But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes,

That would behold in me this shameful sport. [Pinch and his Assistants bind Ant. E. and Dro. E.

near me.

Adr. O, bind him, bind him, let him not come [within him. Pinch. More company!-the fiend is strong Luc. Ah me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks! [thou, A. E. What, will you murder me? Thou'gaoler, I am thy prisoner; wilt thou suffer them To make a rescue?

Off. Masters, let him go; He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him. Pinch. Go, bind this man, for he is frantic too. Adr. What wilt thou do, thou peevish1 officer. Hast thou delight to see a wretched man Do outrage and displeasure to himself?

Off. He is my prisoner; if I let him go, The debt he owes will be required of me. Adr. I will discharge thee, ere I go from thee: Bear me forthwith unto his creditor, And knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it. Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd Home to my house.-O most unhappy day!

Ant. E. O most unhappy wanton! [you. Dro, E. Master, I am here entered in bond for Ant. E. Out on thee, villain? wherefore dost thou mad me?

Dro. E. Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master; cry, the devil.- [talk! L. Heaven help, poor souls, how idly do they Adr. Go bear him hence.-Sister, go you with

me.

[Exeunt Pinch and Assistants, with Ant. E. and Dro. E.

Say now, whose suit is he arrested at? [him? Off. One Angelo, a goldsmith; Do you know Adr. I know the man: What is the sum he Of. Two hundred ducats. [owes? Adr. Say, how grows it due? Off. Due for a chain, your husband had of him. 4. He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not. [day Cour. When as your husband, all in rage, toCame 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. Adr. It may be 80, but I did never see it :Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is, I long to know the truth hereof at large. Enter Antipholus of Syracuse, with his rapier drawn, and Dromio of Syracuse.

Enter Merchant and Angelo. Ang. I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you: But, I protest, he had the chain of me, Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.

Mer. How is the man esteem'd here in the city? Ang. Of very reverend 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. Mer. Speak softly: yonder, as I think, he walks. Enter Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse.

Ang."Tisso; 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: 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 to-day: This chain you had of me, can you deny it? Ant. S. I think, I had; I never did deny it? M. Yes, that you did, sir; and forswore it too. Ant. S. Who heard me to deny it, or forswear it? Mer. These ears of mine, thou knowest, did hear thee:

Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou liv'st To walk where any honest men resort.

Ant. S. Thou art a villain to impeach me thus: I'll prove mine honour, and mine honesty Against thee presently, if thou dar'st stand. Mer. I dare, and do defy thee for a villain. [They draw.

Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtezan, & others. Adr. Hold, hurt him not, for heaven's sake;

he is mad;

Some get within him,1 take his sword away: Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house. Dro. S. Run, master, run; for heaven's sake, take a house.

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This is some priory;-In, or we are spoil'd. [Exeunt Ant. S. and Dro. S. to the Priory.

Enter the Abbess.

Abb. Be quiet, people; Wherefore throng you hither? [hence: Adr. To fetch my poor distracted husband Let us come in, that we may bind him fast, And bear him home for his recovery. 1 His guard.

Ang. I knew, he was not in his perfect wits. 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, much different from the man he was; But, till this afternoon, his passion Ne'er brake into extremity of rage.

[at sea? Abb. Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck 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 Adr. Why, so I did. [him. 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 copy1 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 vile and bad.

(ings:

Abb. And thereof came it, that the man was The venom clamours of a jealous woman [mad: Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing: And thereof comes it that his head is light. Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidUnquiet meals make ill digestions, Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? Thou say sthis sports were hinder'd by thybrawls: Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, But moody and dull melancholy, (Kinsman 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 disturb'd would mad or man, or beast; The consequence is then, thy jealous fits Have scared thy husband from the use of wits. Luc. She never reprehended him but mildly. When he demean'd himself rough, rude, and wildly,

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Why bear you these rebukes, and answer not? Adr. She did betray me to my own reproof. Good people, enter, and lay hold on him.

Abb. No, not a creature enters in my house. Adr. Then, let your servants bring my husband forth.

Abb. 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 essaying it.

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Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sickness, for it is my office, And will have no attorney but myself; And therefore let me have him home with me. Abb. Be patient; for I will not let him stir, Till I have us'd the approved means I have,

1The theme.

With wholesome syrups, drugs, and holy prayers,
To make of him a formal1 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.
Adr I will not hence, and leave my husband
And ill it doth beseem your holiness, [here;
To separate the husband and the wife.
Abb. Be quiet, and depart, thou shalt not
have him.
[Exit Abbess.

Luc. Complain unto the duke of this indignity.
Adr. 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 hither,
And take perforce my husband from the abbess.
Mer. By this, I think, the dial points at five:
Anon, I am sure, the duke himself in person
Comes this way to the melancholy vale;
The place of death and sorry 2 execution,
Behind the ditches of the abbey here.

Ang. Upon what cause?

Mer. To see a reverend Syracusan merchant, Who put unluckily into this bay Against the laws and statutes of this town, Beheaded publickly for his offence.

[death. Ang. See, where they come; we will behold his L. Kneel to the duke, before lie pass the abbey.

Enter Duke attended; Egeon bare-headed; with the Headsman and other Officers. Duke. Yet once again proclaim it publickly, If any friend will pay the sum for him, He shall not die, so much we tender him, [bess! Adr. Justice, most sacred duke, against the abDuke. She is a virtuous and a reverend lady; It cannot be, that she hath done thee wrong.

Adr. May it please your grace, Antipholus, my
Whom I made lord of me and all Ihad,(husband,
At your important letters,-this ill day
A most outrageous fit of madness took him;
That desperately he hurried through the street,
(With him his bondman, all as mad as he,)
Doing displeasure to the citizens

By rushing in their houses, bearing thence
Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like.
Once did I get him bound, and sent him home,
Whilst to take order4 for the wrongs I went,
That here and there his fury had committed.
Anon, I wots not by what strong escape,
He broke from those that had the guard of him;
And, with his mad attendant and himself,
Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,
Met us again, and, madly bent on us,
Chas'd us away; till raising of more aid,
We came again to bind them: then they fled
Into this abbey, whither we pursued them
And here the abbess shuts the gates 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 com-
mand,
Thelp.

Let him be brought forth, and borne hence for Duke. Long since, thy husband serv'd me in And I to thee engag'd a prince's word, [my wars; When thou didst make him master of thy bed, To do him all the grace and good I could.1 Proper. 2 Sad.

3 Importunate. 4 Measures.

5 Know.

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.

S.Omistress, 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
And ever as it blazed, they threw on him [fire;
Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:
My master preaches patience to him, 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.
A. Peace, fool, thy master and his man are
And that is false thou dost report to us. [here;
Serv. Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true;
I have not breath'd 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 within.
Hark, hark, I hear him, mistress; fly, be gone.
Duke. Come, stand by me, fear nothing:

Guard with halberts.

Adr. Ah me, it is my husband! Witness you,

That he is borne about invisible:

Even now we hous'd him in the abbey here; [son. And now he's there, past thought of human reaEnter Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus. Ant. E. Justice, most gracious duke, oh, 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.
Ege. Unless the fear of death doth make me
I see my son Antipholus, and Dromio. [dote,
Ant. E. Justice, sweet prince, against that
woman there,

She whom thou gav'st to me to be my wife;
That hath abus'd and dishonour'd me,
Even in the strength and height of injury!
Beyond imagination is the wrong,
That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.
D. Discover how, and thou shalt find me just.
Ant. E. This day, great duke, she shut the
doors upon me,

While she with rascals feasted in my house...
Duke. A grievous fault: Say, woman, didst
thou so!
[sister,
Adr. No, my good lord:-myself, he, and my
To-day did dine together: so befal my soul,
As this is false, he burdens me withal !

L. Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night, But she tells to your highness simple truth! Ang. O perjur'd woman! They are both forIn this the madman justly chargeth them.[sworn.

Ant. E. My licge, I am advised what I say; Neither disturb'd with the effect of wine, Nor heady-rash, provok'd with raging ire, Albeit, my wrongs might make one wiser mad. This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner: That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with Could witness it, for he was with me then; [her, Who parted with me to go fetch a chain, Promising to bring it to the Porcupine,

1 One after another.

Where Balthazar 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; [down.
That I this day of him receiv'd the chain,
There did this perjur'd goldsmith swear me
He did arrest me with an officer.
Which, heaven knows, I saw not: for the which,

I

did obey; and sent my peasant home For certain ducats: he with none return'd. Then fairly I bespoke the officer. To go in person with me to my house. My wife, her sister, and a rabble more By the way we met Of vile confederates: along with them They brought one Pinch; a hungry, lean-fac'd A mere anatomy, a mountebank,[villain, A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller; A living dead man: this pernicious slave, A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch, Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer;\ And with no face, as 'twere out-facing me, And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, Cries out I was possess'd: then altogether And in a dark and dankish1 vault at home They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence; There left me and my man, both bound together; Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom, and immediately Ran hither to your grace; whom I beseech, To give me ample satisfaction For these deep shames and great indignities. Ang. My lord, in truth, thus far I witness

with him;

That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out. Du. But had he such a chain of thee, or no? A. He had, my lord; and when he ran in here, These people saw the chain about his neck.

Mer. 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.

A. E. I never came within these abbey walls, Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me: I never saw the chain, so help me heaven! And this is false you burden me withal.

Duke. Why, what an intricate impeach is this? I think, you all have drank of Circe's cup. If here you hous'd 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? Dro. E. Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porcupine.g [that ring.

Cour. He did; and from my finger snatch'd A.E. 'Tis true, my liege, this ring I had of her. Du. Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here? Cour. As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace. Du. Why, this is strange: Go call the abbess I think you are all mated, or stark mad. [hither; [Exit an Attendant.

Age. Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a Haply I see a friend will save my life, [word: And pay the sum that may deliver me. Du. Speak freely, Syracusan, what thou wilt.

Æg. Is not your name, sir, called Antipholus? And is not that your bondman Dromio? Dro. E. Within this hour I was his bondman, 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. You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir? Age. Why look you strange on me? you know me well.

Ant. E. I never saw you in my life till now. Æge. Oh! grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last;

And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures1 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.
Ege.
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 extremity! Hast thou so crac'k and splitted my poor tongue, In seven short years, that here my only son Knows not my feeble key of untun'd cares? Though now this grained 2 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 lamp some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear: All these old witnesses (I cannot err,) Tell me, thou art my son Antipholus.

Ant. E. I never saw my father in my life. Ege. But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy, Thou know'st we parted; but perhaps, my son, Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in misery.

Ant. E. The duke, and all that know me in the Can witness with me that it is not so; [city, I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life.

Duke. I tell thee, Syracusan, twenty years Have I been patron to Antipholus, During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa : I see, thy age and dangers make thee dote.

Enter the Abbess, with Antipholus Syracusan, and Dromio Syracusan..

Abb. Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd. [All gather to see him. Ad. Iseetwohusbands, or mine eyes deceive me. Du. One of these men is Genius to the other; And so of these: Which is the natural man, And which the spirit? Who deciphers them? Dr. S. I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. Dro. E. I, sir, am Dromio; pray let me stay. Ant. S. Egeon, art thou not? or else his ghost? Dro. S. O, my old master? who hath bound him here?

Ab. Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds And gain a husband by his liberty:Speak, old Ægeon, if thou be'st that man That hadst a wife once called Emilia, That bore thee at a burden two fair sons: 1 Alteration of features. 2 Furrowed.

O, if thou be'st the same Ægeon, speak, And speak unto the same Emilia!

Ege. If I dream not, thou art Æmilia; If thou art she, tell me where is that son That floated with thee on the fatal raft?

Abb. 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 of Epidamnum: What then became of them I cannot tell; I, to this fortune that you see me in.

Du. Why, here begins his morning story right: These two Antipholus's, these two so 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. Antipholus, thou cam'st from Corinth first. Ant. S. No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse. Duke. Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which.

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-
Ant. S. I, gentle mistress.
Adr.

[day? And are not you my husband? Ant. E. No, I say nay to that.

Ant. S. And so do I, 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.

Ang. That is the chain,sir, which you had of me. Ant. S. I think it be, sir; I deny it not, A. 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 received from And Dromio my man did bring them me: [you, 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 arose.

A. E. These ducats pawn I for my father here. Du. 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 To go with us into the abbey here, [pains And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:And all that are assembled in this place, That by this sympathized one day's error Have suffer'd wrong, go, keep us company, And we shall make full satisfaction. Twenty-five years have I but gone in travail Of you, my sons; nor, till this present hour, My heavy burdens are delivered:The duke, my husband, and my children both. And you the calendars of their nativity, Go to a gossip's feast, and go with me: After so long grief, such nativity.

[Exeunt Duke, Abbess, Ægeon, Court., Merchant, Angelo, and Attendants. Dro. S. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship-board? [embark'd? Ant. E. Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou Dro. S. Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur. [Dromio:

Ant. S. He speaks to me; I am your master, Come, go with us: we'll look to that anon: Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him. [Exeunt Antip. S. and 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;
She now shall be my sister, not my wife.
Dro. E. 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?
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:

[brother: We came into the world, like brother and And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

[Exeunt.

FLEANCE, Son to Banquo.

the English Forces.

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.

tions.