ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE Why, how now, D...

The Comedy of Errors

Antipholus of Syracuse Dromio of Syracuse

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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE Why, how now, Dromio! where runn'st thou so fast?

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.

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I am an ass, I am a woman's man and besides myself.

ANTIPHOLUS What woman's man? and how besides thyself? besides thyself?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman; one

that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me.

ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE What claim lays she to thee?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your

horse; and she would have me as a beast: not that, I

being a beast, she would have me; but that she,

being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me.

ANTIPHOLUS OF

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