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That he unknown to me should be in debt.
Tell me, was he arrested on a band?
DROMIO S.
Not on a band, but on a stronger thing: [50]
A chain, a chain - do you not hear it ring?
ADRIANA
What, the chain?
DROMIO S.
No, no, the bell. ’Tis time that I were gone.
It was two ere I left him, and now the clock strikes one.
ADRIANA
The hours come back; that did I never hear. [55]
DROMIO S.
O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant ’a turns back for very fear.
ADRIANA
As if time were in debt. How fondly dost thou reason!
DROMIO S.
Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he’s worth to season.
Nay, he’s a thief, too. Have you not heard men say
That time comes stealing on by night and day? [60]
If ’a be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,
Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?
Enter Luciana.
ADRIANA
Go, Dromio, there’s the money. Bear it straight,
And bring thy master home immediately.
Come, sister, I am pressed down with conceit - [65]
Conceit, my comfort and my injury.
Exeunt.
Scene III IT
