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Exeunt.

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Enter the [Second] Merchant and [Angelo] the goldsmith.

Ang.

I am sorry, sir, that I have hind’red you,

But I protest he had the chain of me,

Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.

[2. E.] Mer.

How is the man esteem’d here in the city?

Ang.

Of very reverent reputation, sir,

Of credit infinite, highly belov’d,

Second to none that lives here in the city:

His word might bear my wealth at any time.

[2. E.] Mer.

Speak softly, yonder, as I think, he walks.

Enter Antipholus [of Syracuse] and Dromio [of Syracuse] again.

Ang.

’Tis so; and that self chain about his neck,

Which he forswore most monstrously to have.

Good sir, draw near to me, I’ll speak to him.

Signior Antipholus, I wonder much

That you would put me to this shame and trouble,

And, not without some scandal to yourself,

With circumstance and oaths so to deny

This chain which now you wear so openly.

Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,

You have done wrong to this my honest friend,

Who, but for staying on our controversy,