No Fear Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors: Act 4, scene ii

	The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands;
	A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well,
40	One that before the judgment carries poor souls to hell.

the opposite direction of its prey, yet can follow the scent of the hunt. A man who puts people away before the verdict is announced.

	ADRIANA
	Why, man, what is the matter?

ADRIANA

Speak, man, what's the matter?

	DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
	I do not know the matter. He is 'rested on the case.

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

I don't know what the matter is, but he's been arrested for it.

	ADRIANA
	What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.

ADRIANA

What? He's been arrested? Tell me, who had him arrested?

	DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
	I know not at whose suit he is arrested well,
45	But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him; that can I tell.
	Will you send him, mistress, redemption—the money in his
	desk?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

I don't know who had him arrested, but the man that arrested him was in a suit of leather. Mistress, will you send him bail? The money in the desk?

	ADRIANA
	Go fetch it, sister.

ADRIANA

Get it, sister.

Exit LUCIANA

LUCIANA exits.

	This I wonder at,
	That he, unknown to me, should be in debt.
	Tell me, was he arrested on a band?

I don't understand it. How could he be in debt without me knowing it? Tell me, was he arrested because of a band ?

	DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
50	Not on a band, but on a stronger thing:
	A chain, a chain. Do you not hear it ring?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Not for a band, but for something stronger: a necklace, a necklace! Don't you hear it ring?

	ADRIANA
	What, the chain?

ADRIANA

What, the necklace?

	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.

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

No, no, the bell. It's time for me to go. It was two o'clock when I left him, and now it's one.

	ADRIANA
	The hours come back. That did I never hear.

ADRIANA

Time's running backward? I've never heard of that.

	DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
55	O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant, he turns back for
	very fear.

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Oh, sure. When an hour meets a cop, it turns and runs in fear.