Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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The Comedie of Errors.
Actus primus, Scena prima.
[Act 1, Scene 1]
Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with the Merchant of Siracusa,
Iaylor, and other attendants.
Marchant. Marchant.
Marchant. PRoceed Solinus to procure my fall,
Marchant. And by the doome of death end woes and all.
Duke. Duke.
Duke. Merchant of Siracusa, plead no more.
Duke. I am not partiall to infringe our Lawes;
Duke. The enmity and discord which of late
Duke. Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke,
Duke. To Merchants our well‑dealing Countrimen,
Duke. Who wanting gilders to redeeme their liues,
Duke. Haue seal'd his rigorous statutes with their blouds,
Duke. Excludes all pitty from our threatning lookes:
Duke. For since the mortall and intestine iarres
Duke. Twixt thy seditious Countrimen and vs,
Duke. It hath in solemne Synodes beene decreed,