Adr. O, bind him, bind him; let him not come near me. Pinch. More company;-the fiend is strong within him. Luc. Ah me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks! Ant. E. What, will you murder me? Thou jailer, thou, I am a prisoner; wilt thou suffer them To make a rescue? Off. Masters, let him go; He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him. Off. He is my prisoner; if I let him go, Adr. I will discharge thee, ere I go from thee; And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it. Dro. E. Master, I am here entered in bond for you. 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. Luc. God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk! Adr. Go, bear him hence.-Sister, go you with me. [Exeunt PINCH and Assistants, with ANT. and DRO. Say now, whose suit is he arrested at? Off. One Angelo, a goldsmith. Do you know him? Adr. I know the man. What is the sum he owes ? Off. Two hundred ducats. Adr. (The ring I saw upon his finger now,) Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, with his rapier drawn, and DROMIO of Syracuse. Luc. God, for thy mercy! they are loose again. Adr. And come with naked swords; let's call more help, To have them bound again. Off. Away, they'll kill us. [Exeunt Officer, ADR., and Luc. Ant. S. I see these witches are afraid of swords. Dro. S. She, that would be your wife, now ran from you. Ant. S. Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence. I long that we were safe and sound aboard. Dro. S. Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw, they speak us fair, give us gold. Methinks they are such a gentle nation, that but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, I could find in my heart to stay here still, and turn witch. Ant. S. I will not stay to-night for all the town; Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard. [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE I. The same. Enter Merchant and ANGELO. Any. I am sorry, sir, that I have hindered you; Mer. How is the man esteemed here in the city? Of credit infinite, highly beloved, Second to none that lives here in the city; Enter ANTIPHOLUS and DROMIO of Syracuse. That you would put me to this shame and trouble; Who, but for staying on our controversy, Ant. S. Thou art a villain to impeach me thus. [They draw. Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, Courtesan, and others. Adr. 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. Dro. S. Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house. This is some priory;-in, or we are spoiled. [Exeunt ANTIPH. and DRO. to the priory. Enter the Abbess. Abb. Be quiet, people; wherefore throng you hither? Adr. To fetch my poor distracted husband hence. Let us come in, that we may bind him fast, And bear him home for his recovery. Ang. I knew he was not in his perfect wits. Mer. I am sorry now, that I did draw on him. Abb. How long hath this possession held the man? Adr. This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad, And much different from the man he was; But, till this afternoon, his passion Ne'er brake into extremity of rage. Abb. Hath he not lost much wealth by 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, Adr. To none of these, except it be the last, Abb. Ay, but not rough enough. Adr. As roughly as my modesty would let me. Adr. Abb. Ay, but not enough. And in assemblies too. Adr. It was the copy of our conference. Still did I tell him it was vile and bad. Abb. And thereof came it, that the man was mad. The venom clamors of a jealous woman Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. It seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing; Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? Thou say'st his sports were hindered by thy brawls; (Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,) 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 labor in assaying it. Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, And therefore let me have him home with me. With wholesome sirups, drugs, and holy prayers, 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 here; And ill it doth beseem your holiness, To separate the husband and the wife Abb. Be quiet, and depart; thou shalt not have him. [Exit Abbess. Luc. Complain to 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 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 publicly for his offence. Ang. See, where they come; we will behold his death. Luc. Kneel to the duke, before he pass the abbey. Enter Duke, attended; GEON, bareheaded; with the Headsman and other Officers. If Duke. Yet once again proclaim it publicly, any friend will pay the sum for him, He shall not die; so much we tender him. Adr. Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess! Duke. 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 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; By rushing in their houses, bearing thence |