The Comedy Of Errors
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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source: comedyoferrors.Z
subject: syracuse
subject: dromio
subject: antipholus
subject: ephesus
subject: merchant
subject: angelo
subject: debtor
subject: guilders
subject: redeem
subject: lives
subject: seal
subject: rigorous
subject: statutes
subject: bloods
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: comedy
subject: errors
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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full text: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS DRAMATIS PERSONAE SOLINUS Duke of Ephesus. (DUKE SOLINUS:) AEGEON a merchant of Syracuse. ANTIPHOLUS | OF EPHESUS | | twin brothers, and sons to AEgeon and AEmilia. ANTIPHOLUS | OF SYRACUSE | DROMIO OF EPHESUS | | twin brothers, and attendants on the two Antipholuses. DROMIO OF SYRACUSE | BALTHAZAR a merchant ANGELO a goldsmith. First Merchant friend to Antipholus of Syracuse. Second Merchant to whom Angelo is a debtor. PINCH a schoolmaster. AEMILIA wife to AEgeon, an abbess at Ephesus. ADRIANA wife to Antipholus of Ephesus. LUCIANA her sister. LUCE servant to Adriana. A Courtezan. Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants (Gaoler:) (Officer:) (Servant:) SCENE Ephesus. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS ACT I SCENE I A hall in DUKE SOLINUS'S palace. [Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants] AEGEON Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall And by the doom of death end woes and all. DUKE SOLINUS Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more; I am not partial to infringe our laws: The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods, Excludes all pity from our threatening looks. For, since the mortal and intestine jars 'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us, It hath in solemn synods been decreed Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more, If any born at Ephesus be seen At any Syracusian marts and fairs; Again: if any Syracusian born Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies, His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose, Unless a thousand marks be levied, To quit the penalty and to ransom him. Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Cannot amount unto a hundred marks; Therefore by law thou art condemned to die. AEGEON Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun. DUKE SOLINUS Well, Syracusian, say in bri…