Open Source Shakespeare

Speeches (Lines) for Pinch
in "Comedy of Errors"

Total: 6

# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

IV,4,1302

Courtezan. Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!

Pinch. Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.


2

IV,4,1305

(stage directions). [Striking him]

Pinch. I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
To yield possession to my holy prayers
And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:
I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!


3

IV,4,1331

Adriana. Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?

Pinch. It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein,
And yielding to him humours well his frenzy.


4

IV,4,1343

Dromio of Ephesus. God and the rope-maker bear me witness
That I was sent for nothing but a rope!

Pinch. Mistress, both man and master is possess'd;
I know it by their pale and deadly looks:
They must be bound and laid in some dark room.


5

IV,4,1360

Adriana. O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.

Pinch. More company! The fiend is strong within him.


6

IV,4,1367

Officer. Masters, let him go
He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.

Pinch. Go bind this man, for he is frantic too.