The Comedy of Errors


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He is my prisoner: if I let him go,  
The debt he owes will be required of me.  
ADRIANA  
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!  
ANTIPHOLUS  
OF EPHESUS  
O most unhappy strumpet!  
DROMIO OF EPHESUS  
Master, I am here entered in bond for you.  
ANTIPHOLUS  
OF EPHESUS  
Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?  
DROMIO OF EPHESUS  
Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master:  
cry 'The devil!'  
LUCIANA  
God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!  
ADRIANA  
Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me.  
Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer and Courtezan  
Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?  
Officer  
One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?  
ADRIANA  
I know the man. What is the sum he owes?  
Officer  
Two hundred ducats.  
ADRIANA  
Say, how grows it due?  
Officer  
Due for a chain your husband had of him.  
ADRIANA  
He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.  
Courtezan  
When as your husband all in rage 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.  
ADRIANA  
It may be so, but I did never see it.  
Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is:  
I long to know the truth hereof at large.  


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