DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it.

OF SYRACUSE

Your reason?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another
dry basting.

OF SYRACUSE

Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a
time for all things.

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric.

OF SYRACUSE

By what rule, sir?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald
pate of father Time himself.

OF SYRACUSE

Let's hear it.

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

There's no time for a man to recover his hair that
grows bald by nature.

OF SYRACUSE

May he not do it by fine and recovery?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the
lost hair of another man.

OF SYRACUSE

Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is,
so plentiful an excrement?

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts;
and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.

OF SYRACUSE

Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.