ro. E._ And, gentle master, I received no gold; 95
But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out.
_Adr._ Dissembling villain, them speak'st false in both.
_Ant. E._ Dissembling harlot, them art false in all,
And art confederate with a damned pack
To make a loathsome abject scorn of me: 100
But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes,
That would behold in me this shameful sport.
_Enter three or four, and offer to bind him. He strives._
_Adr._ O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.
_Pinch._ More company! The fiend is strong within him.
_Luc._ Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks! 105
_Ant. E._ What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,
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. 110
[_They offer to bind Dro. E._
_Adr._ What wilt thou do, thou peevish 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. 115
_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! 120
_Ant. E._ O most unhappy strumpet!
_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! 125
_Luc._ God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!
_Adr._ 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?
_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,--
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