No Fear Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 2, Scene 2, Page 5
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
The plainer dealer, the sooner lost. Yet he loseth it in a kind
of jollity.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
The more simpleminded they are, the sooner they lose their hair. But they have a good time doing so.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
For what reason?
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Why?
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
For two, and sound ones too.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Two reasons. And good ones, too.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Nay, not sound, I pray you.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Not good ones, please.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Sure ones, then.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Then sure ones.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
No, not sure ones when we’re talking about something unsure.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Certain ones, then.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Then certain ones.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Name them.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
Name them.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
The one, to save the money that he spends in tiring; the other,
that at dinner they should not drop in his porridge.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
One, so they can save the money they spent on hairstyling, and two, so that when their hair falls out it doesn’t land in their dinner.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
You would all this time have proved there is no time for all
things.
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ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE
You were supposed to be proving that there isn’t time for everything.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Marry, and did, sir: namely, e'en no time to recover hair lost
by nature.
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
Right, and I did, sir. There’s no time to get back hair that’s fallen out.
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