Comedy Of Errors

[Guru]

AEGEON


But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy,
Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son,
Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


The duke and all that know me in the city
Can witness with me that it is not so
I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life.

 

[Guru]

DUKE SOLINUS


I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years
Have I been patron to Antipholus,
During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa:
I see thy age and dangers make thee dote.

Re-enter AEMILIA, with ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse

 

[Guru]

AEMELIA


Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd.

All gather to see them

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.

 

[Guru]

DUKE SOLINUS


One of these men is Genius to the other;
And so of these. Which is the natural man,
And which the spirit? who deciphers them?

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE


I, sir, am Dromio; command him away.

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF SYRACUSE


AEgeon art thou not? or else his ghost?

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE


O, my old master! who hath bound him here?

 

[Guru]

AEMELIA


Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds
And gain a husband by his liberty.
Speak, old AEgeon, if thou be'st the man
That hadst a wife once call'd AEmilia
That bore thee at a burden two fair sons:
O, if thou be'st the same AEgeon, speak,
And speak unto the same AEmilia!

 

[Guru]

AEGEON


If I dream not, thou art AEmilia:
If thou art she, tell me where is that son
That floated with thee on the fatal raft?

 

[Guru]

AEMELIA


By men of Epidamnum he and I
And the twin Dromio all were taken up;
But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth
By force took Dromio and my son from them
And me they left with those of Epidamnum.
What then became of them I cannot tell
I to this fortune that you see me in.

 

[Guru]

DUKE SOLINUS


Why, here begins his morning story right;
These two Antipholuses, these two so like,
And these two Dromios, one in semblance,--
Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,--
These are the parents to these children,
Which accidentally are met together.
Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first?
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF SYRACUSE


No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse.

 

[Guru]

DUKE SOLINUS


Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,--

 

[Guru]

DROMIO OF EPHESUS


And I with him.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


Brought to this town by that most famous warrior,
Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


Which of you two did dine with me to-day?
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF SYRACUSE


I, gentle mistress.

 

[Guru]

ADRIANA


And are not you my husband?
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF EPHESUS


No; I say nay to that.
ANTIPHOLUS

 

[Guru]

OF SYRACUSE


And so do I; yet did she call me so:
And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,
Did call me brother.

To Luciana

What I told you then,
I hope I shall have leisure to make good;
If this be not a dream I see and hear.

 

[Guru]

ANGELO


That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.
ANTIPHOLUS