The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (find a book to read txt) 📕

Syracuse, Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse, and Dromio of Ephesus. Dromio of Syracuse Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard? Antipholus of Ephesus Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark’d? Dromio of Syracuse Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur. Antipholus of Syracuse

He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio:
Come, go with us; we’ll look to that anon:
Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him. Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus.

Dromio of Syracuse

There is a fat friend at your master’s house,
That kitchen’d me for you today at dinner:
She now shall be my sister, not my wife.

Dromio of Ephesus

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
Will you walk in to see their gossiping?

Dromio of Syracuse Not I, sir; you are my elder. Dromio of Ephesus That’s a question: how shall we try it? Dromio of Syracuse We’ll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first. Dromio of Ephesus

Nay, then, thus:
We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another. Exeunt.

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The Comedy of Errors
was published in 1623 by
William Shakespeare.

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