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ANTIPHOLUS S.
Your reason?
DROMIO S.
Lest it make you choleric, and purchase me [60] another dry basting.
ANTIPHOLUS S.
Well, sir, learn to jest in good time. There’s a time for all things.
DROMIO S.
I durst have denied that before you were so choleric. [65]
ANTIPHOLUS S.
By what rule, sir?
DROMIO S.
Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself.
ANTIPHOLUS S.
Let’s hear it.
DROMIO S.
There’s no time for a man to recover his hair [70] that grows bald by
nature.
ANTIPHOLUS S.
May he not do it by fine and recovery?
DROMIO S.
Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig, and recover the lost hair of another man.
ANTIPHOLUS S.
Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, [75] as it is, so plentiful an
excrement?
DROMIO S.
Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts, and what he hath
scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.
