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PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus.
ÆGEON, a Merchant of Syracuse.

ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus,

ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse,

DROMIO of Ephesus,

Twin Brothers, and Sons to
ÆGEON and ÆMILIA, but

unknown to each other.

Twin Brothers, and Attendants

DROMIO of Syracuse, S on the two ANTIPHOLUS's.

BALTHAZAR, a Merchant.

ANGELO, a Goldsmith.

A Merchant, Friend to ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse.

PINCH, a Schoolmaster, and a Conjurer.

EMILIA, Wife to ÆGEON, an Abbess at Ephesus.
ADRIANA, Wife to ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.

LUCIANA, her Sister.

LUCE, her Servant.

A Courtezan.

Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants.

SCENE, Ephesus.

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SCENE I.—A Hall in the Duke's Palace.

Enter Duke, ÆGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other Atten

dants.

Æge. Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall, And, by the doom of death, end woes and all.

Duke. Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more ;

I am not partial, to infringe our laws :

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The enmity and discord, which of late
Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen, —
Who, wanting gilders to redeem their lives,

Have sealed his rigorous statutes with their bloods,-
Excludes all pity from our threat'ning looks.
For, since the mortal and intestine jars,
Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,
It hath in solemn synods been decreed,
Both by the Syracusans and ourselves,
To admit no traffick to our adverse towns:
Nay, more,

If any, born at Ephesus, be seen
At any Syracusan marts and fairs,
Again, If any Syracusan 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 ransome him.
Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,
Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;
Therefore, by law thou art condemn'd to die.

Æge. Yet this my comfort; when your words are

done,

My woes end likewise with the evening sun.
Duke. Well, Syracusan, say, in brief, the cause,

Why thou departedst from thy native home;
And for what cause thou cam'st to Ephesus.

Æge. A heavier task could not have been impos'd,

Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable :
Yet, that the world may witness, that my end

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