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EPILOGUE |
EPILOGUE. |
ROSALIND. It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but |
it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it |
be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play |
needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and |
good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a |
case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot |
insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not |
furnish'd like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My |
way is to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge |
you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of |
this play as please you; and I charge you, O men, for the love |
you bear to women- as I perceive by your simp'ring none of you |
hates them- that between you and the women the play may please. |
If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that |
pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defied |
not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, |
or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, |
bid me farewell. |
THE END |
1593 |
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS |
by William Shakespeare |
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE |
SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus |
AEGEON, a merchant of Syracuse |
ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS twin brothers and sons to |
ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE Aegion and Aemelia |
DROMIO OF EPHESUS twin brothers, and attendants on |
DROMIO OF SYRACUSE the two Antipholuses |
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, Attendants |
SCENE: |
Ephesus |
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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS |
ACT I. SCENE 1 |
A hall in the DUKE'S palace |
Enter the DUKE OF EPHESUS, AEGEON, the Merchant |
of Syracuse, 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 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. |
AEGEON. 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 cam'st to Ephesus. |
AEGEON. 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 |
Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, |
I'll utter what my sorrow gives me leave. |
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