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Dromio of Ephesus

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The Comedy of Error’s concluding dialogue between Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse neatly ties up an underlying theme of this farce, that true love — brotherly, marital or other — renders the lovers indistinguishable, “Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother.” But this metaphor of the mirror at the end of the play is a shift from the similes of drops of water that recurred previously.
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Farewell till then. I will go lose myself

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Antipholus 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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Act 1
Scene 2
Line 33

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Now, as I am a Christian, answer me

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Antipholus 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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Act 1
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Line 78

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But here’s a villain that would face me down

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Antipholus 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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Act 3
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Who is that at the door that keeps all this noise?

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Adriana
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

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Antipholus 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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Act 4
Scene 4
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Why look you strange on me?

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Egeon, 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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Act 5
Scene 1
Line 305

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Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother

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Dromio 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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Act 5
Scene 1
Line 430

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