[Exit Luciana.]
Thus he unknown to me should be in debt.
Tell me, was he arrested on a band?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
Not on a band, but on a stronger thing;
A chain, a chain. Do you not hear it ring?
ADRIANA.
What, the chain?
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
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.
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE.
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 OF SYRACUSE.
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?
If he 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.