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Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio of Syracuse have landed in Ephesus in search of their twin brothers and Antipholus’s mother. Unbeknownst to them, their twin brothers live in Ephesus and coming to this town is about to cause a whole lot of confusion. Antipholus of Ephesus has a wife named Adriana who has sent her servant to bring her husband to dinner, but her Dromio of Ephesus gets confused with Dromio of Syracuse, and the task never gets completed. She decides to find her husband
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not:
In Ephesus I am but two hours old,
As strange unto your town as to your talk;
Who, every word by all my wit being scann'd,
Want wit in all one word to understand.
LUCIANA
Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you!
When were you wont to use my sister thus?
She
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