Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time
Dromio of Syracuse
Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself.
Antipholus of Syracuse
Antipholus of Syracuse
Let's hear it.
Dromio of Syracuse
Dromio of Syracuse
There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.
Antipholus of Syracuse
Antipholus of Syracuse
May he not do it by fine and recovery?
Dromio of Syracuse
Dromio of Syracuse
Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig, and recover the lost hair of another man.
Antipholus of Syracuse
Antipholus of Syracuse
Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement?
Dromio of Syracuse
Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts, and what he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.
Antipholus of Syracuse
Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.
Dromio of Syracuse
Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair.
Antipholus of Syracuse
Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.
Dromio of Syracuse
The plainer dealer, the sooner lost. Yet he loseth it in a kind of jollity.