ANTHONY: Not so easy yet, cousin, as you think it would be. For
how can you prove to me that you are awake?
VINCENT: Marry, lo, do I not now wag my hand, shake my head, and
stamp with my foot here on the floor?
ANTHONY: Have you never dreamed ere this that you have done the
same?
VINCENT: Yes, that have I, and more too than that. For I have ere
this in my sleep dreamed that I doubted whether I were asleep or
awake, and have in good faith thought that I did thereupon even
the same things that I do now indeed, and thereby determined that
I was not asleep. And yet have I dreamed in good faith further,
that I have been afterward at dinner and there, making merry with
good company, have told the same dream at the table and laughed
well at it, to think that while I was asleep I had by such means
of moving the parts of my body and considering thereof, so verily
thought myself awake!
ANTHONY: And will you not now soon, think you, when you wake and
rise, laugh as well at yourself when you see that you lie now in
your warm bed asleep again, and dream all this time, while you
believe so verily that you are awake and talking of these matters
with me?
VINCENT: God's Lord, uncle, you go now merrily to work with me
indeed, when you look and speak so seriously and would make me
think I were asleep!
ANTHONY: It may be that you are, for anything that you can say or
do whereby you can, with any reason that you make, drive me to
confess that you yourself be sure of the contrary.
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