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1

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 2]

Dromio of Syracuse

1128

Not on a band, but on a stronger thing;
A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring?

2

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 3]

Courtezan

1217

Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,
Or, for my diamond, the chain you promised,
And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you.

3

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 3]

Courtezan

1226

I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain:
I hope you do not mean to cheat me so.

4

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 3]

Courtezan

1231

Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,
Else would he never so demean himself.
A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,
And for the same he promised me a chain:
Both one and other he denies me now.
The reason that I gather he is mad,
Besides this present instance of his rage,
Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner,
Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.
Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,
On purpose shut the doors against his way.
My way is now to hie home to his house,
And tell his wife that, being lunatic,
He rush'd into my house and took perforce
My ring away. This course I fittest choose;
For forty ducats is too much to lose.

5

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 4]

Courtezan

1395

When as your husband all in rage to-day
Came to my house and took away my ring—
The ring I saw upon his finger now—
Straight after did I meet him with a chain.

6

Comedy of Errors
[V, 1]

Courtezan

1714

He did, and from my finger snatch'd that ring.

7

Comedy of Errors
[V, 1]

Antipholus of Ephesus

1715

'Tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her.