Dromio of Ephesus
Notes on Dromio of Ephesus
Quotes spoken by the character Dromio of Ephesus
Farewell till then. I will go lose myself
Read the QuoteAntipholus of Syracuse
Farewell till then. I will go lose myself
And wander up and down to view the city.
First Merchant
Sir, I commend you to your own content.
He exits.
I to the world am like a drop of water,
That in the ocean seeks another drop
Antipholus of Syracuse
He that commends me to mine own content,
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Now, as I am a Christian, answer me
Read the QuoteAntipholus of Syracuse
Now, as I am a Christian, answer me
In what safe place you have bestowed my money,
Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours
That stands on tricks when I am undisposed.
Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?
They say this town is full of cozenage,
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
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But here’s a villain that would face me down
Read the QuoteAntipholus of Ephesus
But here’s a villain that would face me down
He met me on the mart, and that I beat him
And charged him with a thousand marks in gold,
And that I did deny my wife and house.—
Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?
Dromio of Ephesus
Say what you will,
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Who is that at the door that keeps all this noise?
Read the QuoteAdriana
Who is that at the door that keeps all this noise?
Dromio of Syracuse, within
By my troth, your town is troubled with unruly boys.
Antipholus of Ephesus
Are you there, wife? You might have come before.
A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?
For a fish without a fin,
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Here comes my man. I think he brings the money
Read the QuoteAntipholus of Ephesus
Here comes my man. I think he brings the money.
How now, sir? Have you that I sent you for?
Dromio of Ephesus, handing over the rope’s end
Here’s that, I warrant you, will pay them all.
I have served him from the hour of my nativity
to this instant,
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Why look you strange on me?
Read the QuoteEgeon, to Antipholus of Ephesus
Why look you strange on me? You know me well.
Antipholus of Ephesus
I never saw you in my life till now.
Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.
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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother
Read the QuoteDromio of Ephesus
Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-fac’d youth.
Will you walk in to see their gossiping?
We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.
Dromio of Syracuse
Not I,
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