| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| What a coile is there Dromio? who are those at the gate? | What a coil is there, Dromio! Who are those at the gate? | CE III.i.48 |
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| Faith no, hee comes too late, | Faith, no, he comes too late; | CE III.i.49.2 |
| and so tell your Master. | And so tell your master. | CE III.i.50.1 |
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| Haue at you with another, that's when? can you tell? | Have at you with another. That‘s ‘When? Can you tell?’ | CE III.i.52 |
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| I thought to haue askt you. | I thought to have asked you. | CE III.i.55.1 |
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| Can you tell for whose sake? | Can you tell for whose sake? | CE III.i.57.2 |
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| Let him knocke till it ake. | Let him knock till it ache. | CE III.i.58.2 |
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| What needs all that, and a paire of stocks in the towne? | What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town? | CE III.i.60 |