Dromio of Syracuse

Dromio of Syracuse
But I pray, sir, why am I beaten?
Antipholus of Syracuse
Dost thou not know?
Dromio of Syracuse
Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten.

Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season, 
When in the “why” and the “wherefore” is neither rhyme nor reason? 

Antipholus of Syracuse
Shall I tell you why?
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Adriana
How ill agrees it with your gravity
To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,
Abetting him to thwart me in my mood.
Be it my wrong you are from me exempt,
But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.

This is the fairy land. O spite of spites!
We talk with goblins, owls,
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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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Dromio of Syracuse
Do you know me, sir? Am I Dromio?
Am I your man? Am I myself?
Antipholus of Syracuse
Thou art Dromio, thou art
my man, thou art thyself.

But lest myself be guilty to self wrong,
I’ll stop mine ears against the mermaid’s song.

Dromio of Syracuse
I am an ass,
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Abbess
Most mighty duke, behold a man much wronged.
 All gather to see them.
Adriana
I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.

One of these men is genius to the other.
And so, of these, which is the natural man
And which the spirit?

Duke
One of these men is genius to the other.
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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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