ffered him money which they said was owing to him,
some invited him to come and see them, and some gave him thanks for
kindnesses they said he had done them, all mistaking him for his
brother. A tailor showed him some silks he had bought for him, and
insisted upon taking measure of him for some clothes.

Antipholus began to think he was among a nation of sorcerers and
witches, and Dromio did not at all relieve his master from his
bewildered thoughts, by asking him how he got free from the officer who
was carrying him to prison, and giving him the purse of gold which
Adriana had sent to pay the debt with. This talk of Dromio's of the
arrest and of a prison, and of the money he had brought from Adriana,
perfectly confounded Antipholus, and he said, "This fellow Dromio is
certainly distracted, and we wander here in illusions;" and quite
terrified at his own confused thoughts, he cried out, "Some blessed
power deliver us from this strange place!"

And now another stranger came up to him, and she was a lady, and she too
called him Antipholus, and told him he had dined with her that day, and
asked him for a gold chain which she said he had promised to give her.
Antipholus now lost all patience, and calling her a sorceress, he denied
that he had ever promised her a chain, or dined with her, or had even
seen her face before that moment. The lady persisted in affirming he had
dined with her, and had promised her a chain, which Antipholus still
denying, she further said, that she had given him a valuable ring, and
if he would not give her the gold chain, she insisted upon having her
own ring again. On this Antipholus became quite frantic, and again
calling her sorceress and witch, and denying all knowledge of her or her
ring, ran away from her, leaving her astonished at his words and his
wild looks, for nothing to her appeared more certain than that he had
dined with her, and that she had given him a ring, in consequence of his
promising to make her a present of a gold chain. But this lady had
fallen into the same mistake the others had done, for she had taken him
for his brother: the married Antipholus had done all the things she
taxed this Antipholus with.

When the married Antipholus was denied entrance into his own house
(those within supposing him to be already there), he had gone away very
angry, believing it to be one of his wife's jealous freaks, to which she
was very subject, and remembering that she had often falsely