You hear, my spell is lawful: do not shun her,
Until you see her die again; for then
You kill her double: Nay, present your

hand:

When she was young, you woo'd her; now, in age, Is she become the suitor.

Leon.

O, she's warm! [Embracing her.

If this be magick, let it be an art

Lawful as eating.

Pol.

She embraces him.

Cam. She hangs about his neck;

f she pertain to life, let her speak too.

Pol. Ay, and make't manifest where she has

liv'd,

Or, how stol'n from the dead?

Paul.

That she is living, Were it but told you, should be hooted at Like an old tale; but it appears, she lives, Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while.Please you to interpose, fair madam; kneel, And pray your mother's blessing.- Turn, good lady;

Our Perdita is found.

Her.

[Presenting PERDITA, who kneels to HERMIONE.

You gods, look down, And from your sacred vials pour your graces Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own, Where hast thou been preserv'd? where liv'd? how found

Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear, that I,
Knowing by Paulina, that the oracle

Gave hope thou wast in being, - have preserv'd
Myself, to see the issue.

Paul.
There's time enough for that;
Lest they desire, upon this push to trouble
Your joys with like relation. Go together,
You precious winners all; your exultation
Partake to every one. I, an old turtle,

Will wing me to some wither'd bough; and there

My mate, that's never to be found again,
Lament till I am lost.

Leon.
O peace, Paulina;
Thou should'st a husband take by my consent,
As I by thine, a wife: this is a match,
And made between's by vows.

mine;

Thou hast found

But how, is to be question'd: for I saw her, As I thought, dead; and have, in vain, said many A prayer upon her grave: I'll not seek far (For him, I partly know his mind,) to find thee An honourable husband: :- Come, Camillo,

And take her by the hand: whose worth, and honesty,

Is richly noted; and here justified
By us, a pair of kings.

Let's from this place.

What? Look upon my brother: pardons,

- both your

That e'er I put between your holy looks
My ill suspicion. This your son-in-law,

And son unto the king, (whom heavens directing,)
Is troth-plight to your daughter. - Good Paulina,
Lead us from hence; where we may leisurely

Each one demand, and answer to his

part

Perform'd in this wide gap of time, since first
We were dissever'd: Hastily lead away. [Exeunt.

COMEDY OF ERRORS.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

SOLINUS, duke of Ephesus.
ÆGEON, a merchant of Syracuse.

ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus,

ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse,

DROMIO of Ephesus,

Twin Brothers, and sons to Egeon and Emilia, but unknown to each

other.

Twin Brothers, and Attend

DROMIO of Syracuse, ants on the two Antipholus's.

BALTHAZAR, a merchant.

ANGELO, a goldsmith.

A Merchant, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.
PINCH, a schoolmaster, and a conjuror.

EMILIA, wife to Egeon, an abbess at Ephesus.
ADRIANA, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.
LUCIANA, her sister.

LUCE, her servant.

A Courtezan.

Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants.

SCENE, Ephesus.

COMEDY OF ERRORS.

ACT THE FIRST.

SCENE I.

A Hall in the Duke's Palace.

Enter Duke, ÆGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants.

your

duke

Ægeon. 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 To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,Who, wanting gilders' to redeem their lives, Have seal'd his rig'rous 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 Syracusans and ourselves, To admit no traffick to our adverse towns:

1 Name of a coin.