_Ant. E._ I never saw my father in my life.
_Æge._ But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy, Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son, 320 Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery.
_Ant. E._ 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.
_Duke._ I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years 325 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 _Abbess_, with _ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse_ and _DROMIO of Syracuse_._
_Abb._ Most mighty Duke, behold a man much wrong'd.
_Adr._ I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me. 330
_Duke._ 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?
_Dro. S._ I, sir, am Dromio: command him away.
_Dro. E._ I, sir, am Dromio: pray, let me stay. 335
_Ant. S._ Ægeon art thou not? or else his ghost?
_Dro. S._ O, my old master! who hath bound him here?
_Abb._ Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds, And gain a husband by his liberty. Speak, old Ægeon, if thou be'st the man 340 That hadst a wife once call'd Æmilia, That bore thee at a burden two fair sons: O, if thou be'st the same Ægeon, speak, And speak unto the same Æmilia!
_Æge._ If I dream not, thou art Æmilia: 345 If thou art she, tell me where is that son That floated with thee on the fatal raft?
_Abb._ By men of Epidamnum he and I And the twin Dromio, all were taken up; But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth 350 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.
_Duke._ Why, here begins his morning story right: 355 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. 360 Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first?
_Ant. S._ No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse.
_Duke._ Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which.
_Ant. E._ I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,--
_Ant. E._ Brought to this town by that most famous warrior. Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.