Enter Gustaffe and Rip.
Gustaffe.
'Tis false! Rip Van Winkle stands before you!
Omnes.
Rip Van Winkle!
Herman.
You, Rip Van Winkle! Van Winkle come back after such a lapse of time? Impossible!
Rip.
Nothing at all impossible in anything Rip Van Winkle undertakes, and, though all of you are in the same story, dat he has been gone so long, he is nevertheless back soon enough, to your sorrow, my chap.
Herman.