ABSTRACT

22 The Comedy of Errors done this morning. I follow Menechmus, and he goes to the Hall where now the Sessions are holden: there thrusting our selves into the prease of people, when I was in midst of all the throng, he gave me the slip, that I could never more set eye on him, and I dare sweare, came directly to dinner. That I would he that first devised these Sessions were hang'd, and all that ever came of him: tis such a hinderance to men that have belly businesses in hand. If a man be not there at his call, they amearce him with a vengeance. Men that have nothing else to do, that do neither bid anie man, nor are themselves bidden to dinner, such should come to Sessions, not we that have these matters to looke too. If it were so, I had not thus lost my dinner this day; which I think in my conscience he did even purposely couzen me off. Yet I meane to go see: ifl can but light uppon the reversion, I may perhaps get my penyworthes. But how now? is this Menechmus comming away from thence? dinner done, and all dispatcht? What execrable Iucke have I?