【英文原著类】The Comedy of Errors(错误的喜剧).pdf

EDY OF ERRORS
EDY OF
ERRORS
William Shakespeare
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EDY OF ERRORS
ACT I.
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EDY OF ERRORS
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 e 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 fort: 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. In Syracuse was
I born, and wed Unto a woman, happy but for me, And by me, had not our
hap been bad. With her I liv'd in joy; our wealth increas'd By prosperous
voyages I often made To Epidamnum; till my factor's death, And the great
care of goods at random left, Dr