The Comedy of Errors - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare, John Glover, William George Clark

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OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

EDITED BY

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

AND JOHN GLOVER, M.A. LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

  VOLUME I.  

Cambridge and London: M A C M I 1863.

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Dramatis Personæ     Act IScene 1A hall in the Duke’s palace. Scene 2The Mart. Act IIScene 1The house of Antipholus of Ephesus. Scene 2A public place. Act IIIScene 1the house of Antipholus of Ephesus.Before Scene 2The same. Act IVScene 1A public place. Scene 2The house of Antipholus of Ephesus. Scene 3A public place. Scene 4A street. Act VScene 1A street before a Priory.   Endnotes Critical Apparatus(“Linenotes”) Texts Used(from general preface)

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.

1 DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

S OLINUS 2 , duke of Ephesus. Æ GEON , a merchant of Syracuse. A A HPITN ITNLOHP SU S L U O   3 esus Eph brotwin,sa htreno sdns  fo  f Syracuse,  Ætoongend ami Æ.ail o   D D O OMIO ROMI R ulespiohA tnt ow Syra of  s.a dna ,srehtorb he tons ntdaentt  foE hpsesu wtni esuc, B ALTHAZAR , a merchant. A NGELO , a goldsmith. First Merchant, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse. Second Merchant, to whom Angelo is a debtor. P INCH , a schoolmaster.   Æ MILIA wife to Ægeon, an abbess at Ephesus., A DRIANA , wife to Antipholus of Ephesus. L UCIANA , her sister. L UCE , servant to Adriana. A Courtezan.   Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants. S CENE —Ephesus.

1.D RAMATIS P ERSONÆ first given by Rowe. 2.S OLINUS ] Seenote ( I ). 3.A NTIPHOLUS ] Seenote ( I ).

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EnterD UKE , Æ GEON ,Gaoler,Officers, and otherAttendants. 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: 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 condemn’d to die. Æge.Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun. Duke.Well, Syracusian, say, in brief, the cause Why thou departed’st from thy native home, And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus. Æge.A heavier task could not have been imposed Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable: Yet, that the world may witness that my end Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, I’ll utter what my sorrow gives me leave. In Syracusa was I born; and wed Unto a woman, happy but for me, And by me, had not our hap been bad. With her I lived in joy; our wealth increased By prosperous voyages I often made To Epidamnum; till my factor’s death, And the great care of goods at random left, Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse: From whom my absence was not six months old, Before herself, almost at fainting under The pleasing punishment that women bear, Had made provision for her following me, And soon and safe arrived where I was. There had she not been lon but she became

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