Duke. Why, this is ftrange; go, call the abbefs hither; I think, you are all mated, or stark mad. [Ex. one to the abbefs. Egeon. Moft mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word: Haply, I fee a friend will fave my life, And pay the fum that may deliver me. Duke. Speak freely, Syracufan, what thou wilt. E. Dro. Within this hour I was his bond-man, fir, Ægeon. I am fure, both of you remember me. Egeon. Why look you strange on me? you know me well. Ægeon. O, grief hath chang'd me fince you saw me last, Have written strange defeatures in my face; Egeon. Dromio, nor thou? E. Dro. No, truft me, nor I. E. Dro. But I am fure, I do not; and whatsoever And And all the conduits of my blood froze up; E. Ant. I never faw my father in my life. E. Ant. The duke, and all that know me in the city, Can witness with me that it is not fo: I ne'er faw Syracufa in my life. Duke. I tell thee, Syracufan, twenty years Have I been patron to Antipholis, During which time he ne'er faw Syracufa : I fee, thy age and dangers make thee dote. SCENE VII. Enter the Abbefs, with Antipholis Syracufan and Abb. Moft mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd. S. Dro. I, fir, am Dromio; command him away. And gain a husband by his liberty. Speak, old #geon, if thou be'ft the man That hadft a wife once call'd Emilia, VOL. I. Iii That That bore thee at a burthen two fair fons ? Duke. Why, here begins his morning story right: And those two Dromio's, one in femblance; Egeon. If I dream not, thou art Æmilia; Abb. By men of Epidamnum, he, and I, I, to this fortune that you fee me in. Duke. Antipholis, thou cam'ft from Corinth first. Duke. Stay, ftand apart, I know not which is which. E. Ant. Brought to this town by that most famous warrior, Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle. Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to-day? S. Ant. I, gentle mistress. Adr. And are not you my husband? E. Ant. No; I fay, nay, to that. S. Ant. And fo do I, yet did fhe call me fo: And this fair gentlewoman her fifter 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 fee and hear. Ang. That is the chain, fir, which you had of me. S. Ant. S. Ant. I think, it be, fir; I deny it not. S. Ant. This purfe of ducats I receiv'd from you, To E. Ant. Thefe ducats pawn I for my father here. E. Ant. There, take it, and much thanks for my good cheer. Abb. Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains go with us into the abbey here, And hear at large difcourfed all our fortunes: And all that are affembled in this place, The duke, my husband, and my children both, After fo long grief fuch felicity! Duke. With all my heart I'll gossip at this feast. [Exeunt. S. Dro. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard? E. Ant. Dromio, what ftuff of mine haft thou embark'd? S. Dro. Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the centaur. S. Ant. He speaks to me; I am your master, Dromio. Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon; Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him. [Exe. the two Antiph. She now shall be my fifter, not E. Dro. Methinks, you are my glass, and not my brother: How fhall I try it ? S. Dro. We'll draw cuts for the fenior: 'Till then, lead thou firft. E. Dro. Nay, then thus We came into the world like brother and brother: [Embracing. And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. [Exeunt. |