ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS Come, go along; my wife is coming yonder.
[Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and PINCH]
DROMIO OF EPHESUS Mistress, 'respice finem,' respect your end; or
rather, the prophecy like the parrot, 'beware the
rope's-end.'
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS Wilt thou still talk?
[Beating him]
Courtezan How say you now? is not your husband mad?
ADRIANA His incivility confirms no less.
Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;
Establish him in his true sense again,
And I will please you what you will demand.
LUCIANA Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!
Courtezan Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!
PINCH Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.
[Striking him]
PINCH I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
To yield possession to my holy prayers
And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:
I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad.
ADRIANA O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS You minion, you, are these your customers?
Did this companion with the saffron face
Revel and feast it at my house to-day,
Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut
And I denied to enter in my house?
ADRIANA O husband, God doth know you dined at home;
Where would you had remain'd until this time,
Free from these slanders and this open shame!
ANTIPHOLUS
OF EPHESUS Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou?
DROMIO OF EPHESUS Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.
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