THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. William Shakespeare

      The Comedy of Errors

      PERSONS REPRESENTED.

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       SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus.

       AEGEON, a Merchant of Syracuse.

       ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS, Twin brothers and sons to Aegion and

       ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE, and Aemelia, but unknown to each other.

       DROMIO OF EPHESUS, Twin brothers, and attendants on

       DROMIO OF SYRACUSE, the two Antipholuses.

       BALTHAZAR, a Merchant.

       ANGELO, a Goldsmith.

       A MERCHANT, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.

       PINCH, a Schoolmaster and a Conjurer.

       AEMILIA, Wife to Aegeon, an Abbess at Ephesus.

       ADRIANA, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.

       LUCIANA, her Sister.

       LUCE, her Servant.

       A COURTEZAN

       Gaoler, Officers, Attendants

       SCENE: Ephesus

ACT I.

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      SCENE 1. A hall in the DUKE’S palace.

       [Enter the DUKE, AEGEON, GAOLER, OFFICERS, and other ATTENDANTS.]

       AEGEON.

       Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,

       And, by the doom of death, end woes and all.

       DUKE.

       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 threat’ning looks.

       For, since the mortal and intestine jars

       ‘Twixt thy seditious