_Off._ One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?
_Adr._ I know the man. What is the sum he owes? 130
_Off._ Two hundred ducats.
_Adr._ Say, how grows it due?
_Off._ Due for a chain your husband had of him.
_Adr._ He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.
_Cour._ When as your husband, all in rage, to-day Came to my house, and took away my ring,-- 135 The ring I saw upon his finger now,-- Straight after did I meet him with a chain.
_Adr._ 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. 140
_Enter _ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse_ with his rapier drawn, and _DROMIO of Syracuse_._
_Luc._ G.o.d, 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 all but Ant. S. and Dro. S._
_Ant. S._ I see these witches are afraid of swords. 145
_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: 150 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._ 155
NOTES: IV, 4.
SCENE IV.] SCENE VIII. Pope.
and the Officer.] Capell. with a Jailor. Ff.
5, 6: _messenger. That ... Ephesus,_] Rowe.
_messenger, That ... Ephesus,_ F1 F2 F3.
_messenger; That ... Ephesus,_ F4.
_messenger, That ... Ephesus:_ Capell.
14: Dro. E.] Off. Edd. conj.
15: _hie_] _high_ F2.
17: _returned_] _come_ Anon. conj.
18: [Beating him.] Capell. [Beats Dro. Pope. om. Ff.
29: _ears_] See note (VII).
38: SCENE IX. Pope. The stage direction "Enter ... Pinch,"
precedes line 38 in Ff, and all editions till Dyce"s.
Pinch.] a schoolmaster, call"d Pinch. Ff.
40: _the prophecy_] _the prophesie_ F1 F2 F3 F4. _prophesie_ Rowe.
_to prophesy_ Dyce.
39-41: _or rather ... talk?_] _or rather, "prospice funem,"
beware the rope"s end._ Ant. E. _Wilt thou still talk like the parrot?_ Edd. conj.
41: [Beating him.] [Beats Dro. Ff.
46: _what_] _in what_ Hanmer.
65: _Dined_] _Din"d I_ Theobald. _I din"d_ Capell.
72: _Certes_] Pope. _certis_ Ff.
74: _bear_] _beares_ F1.
75: _vigour_] _rigour_ Collier MS.
_his_] _your_ Pope.
83: _master_] _mistress_ Dyce conj.
_rag_] _bag_ Becket conj.
84: _not thou_] _thou not_ Capell.
87: _bear_] _do bear_ Pope. _now bear_ Collier MS.
89: _is_] _are_ Rowe.
101: _these false_] Ff. _those false_ Rowe.
102: [Flying at his wife. Capell.
Enter ...] The stage direction is transferred by Dyce to follow 105.
106: _me? Thou ... thou,_] Rowe. _me, thou ... thou?_ Ff.
110: [They ... Dro. E.] Edd. om. Ff.
117: [They bind ANT. and DRO. Rowe.
124: _nothing?_] _nothing thus?_ Hanmer, reading as verse.
126: _help, poor_] Theobald. _help poor_ Ff.
_idly_] Pope. _idlely_ Ff.
127: _go_] _stay_ Pope.
[Exeunt all but ...] Exeunt. Manet ... Ff (after line 128).
129: SCENE X. Pope.
133: _for me_] om. Hanmer.
141: SCENE XI. Pope.
143: [Runne all out. Ff.
144: [Exeunt ...] Exeunt omnes, as fast as may be, frighted. Ff.
150: _saw ... speak us ... give_] F1.
_saw ... spake us ... give_ F2 F3 F4.
_saw ... spake to us ... give_ Rowe.
_saw ... spake us ... gave_ Pope.
_see ... speak us ... give_ Capell.
ACT V.