FIRST COUNTRYMAN (weeping). I cannot think I am not myself!
SECOND COUNTRYMAN (weeping). Thou needst must think it, whether thou wouldst or no.
FIRST COUNTRYMAN. Dost thou indeed think thou art some other person?
SECOND COUNTRYMAN. If I were myself, would not the gourd still be around my ankle?
FIRST COUNTRYMAN. Then who art thou? And who am I?
SECOND COUNTRYMAN. Alas! I know not.
[Enter the WAGS.]
FIRST COUNTRYMAN (joyfully). Here come those who will know whether we are ourselves!
[The Wags pretend not to know the Countrymen who are bowing before them. They pass on.]
SECOND COUNTRYMAN. Stop, good sirs!