The Comedy of Errors
Publisher: 1st World Library
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Fairfield
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Description: From the book: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 lateSprung from the rancorous outrage of your dukeTo 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 EphesusBe seen at any Syracusian marts and fairs;Again, if any Syracusian bornCome 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.