ONÆ thers and Sons to and Æmilia. ers and Attendants on vo Antipholuses. s of Syracuse. a debtor. = at Ephesus. Shesus. Attendants. 5. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS ACT I SCENE I.—A Hall in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, ÆGEON, Gaoler, Officers and other Ægeon. Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall, I am not partial to infringe our laws: Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives, 5 A hall palace] Malone; The Duke's palace Theobald; A publick Place Capell. Duke] the Duke of Ephesus Ff. Egeon] Rowe; with the Merchant of Siracusa Ff. Officers] Capell; Officer Staunton; omitted in Ff. 1. Solinus] F 1; Salinus Ff 2, 3, 4. 1. Solinus] The Duke's name is "Exeter hath given the doom of For pax of little price"; VI. IV. ix. 12: "Expect your high- Have seal'd his rigorous statutes wi To quit the penalty, and to ranson 22. and Folios, wh "a revere 14. Syracusians] F 4; Siracusians Ff 1, 2, 3; S Nay more, if... Ephesus Be seene at any] Ff; At any Malone; any omitted by Pope. Netherlands and parts of Germany; (b) a Dutch silver coin worth about Is. 8d. English (New Eng. Dict.). Valued from one shilling and sixpence to two shillings, says Steevens. Used here and in IV. i. 4 in a general sense for money. So in Marlowe, Faustus, sc. iv. line 34 (Bullen, i. 229): "WagHold, take these guilders"; where the stage-direction following is "gives him money." Marshall Syracusia Anatomy p. 345: tempest,' MacFleck [i.e. puns] 15. ad Night, v. this adver 16, 17. Globe an as three li “Nay, If any fai but there "any" of has been the prece right in o 25 Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, 30 35 And by me too, had not our hap been bad. 40 hich also occurs in v. i. 124: end Syracusian merchant." points out that the form an is found in Burton's of Melancholy (ed. 1676), or as that Syracusian in a 'etc. Similarly, Dryden in his knoe, 83, has "Pure clinches the suburbian muse affords." tverse] Compare Twelfth . i. 87: "Into the danger of erse town." Nay, more, nd Cambridge editions print lines, thus: v, more, fairs] The my born at Ephesus be seen any Syracusian marts and airs"; e can be little doubt that the of the Folios in the last line n caught up by mistake from ceding line, and that Pope was omitting it. By prosperous voyages I often made To Epidamnum; till my factor's death, 29. home,] Home; Rowe; home? Ff. 32. griefs] F 1; griefe F 2; grief Ff 3, 4. 38. And by me too,] Ff 2, 3, 4; And by me; F 1. 41, 62. Epidamnum] Pope; Epidamium Ff, Marshall; Epidamnium Rowe. Epidamnum; . . . death] Theobald; Epidamium, . . death F 1; Epidamium, death; Ff 2, 3, 4. And the great care of goods at rand 42. the... care... left] Theobald; he.. leaving Ff 2, 3, 4; he, great random] Ff 3, 4; randone Ff 1, (S. Walker conj.); meane F1; poor meane F 2; burden, male twins,] burthen Male, twins F 1. "Choked Compare "Thou for me 6 left F1; he left Steevens 54. meaner] Delius ; poor mean Ff 3, 4. . i. 210: 66 11 55. 1 d with ambition of the meaner Richard III. v. ii. 24: "Kings ] makes gods and meaner s Kings"; Taming of the "Some Neapolitan, er man of Pisa"; Coriolanus, From every meaner man Tempest, m. iii. 87: "My ministers"; and Iv. i. 35: and thy meaner fellows.' e also John Davies in his of Folly, 1607, addressing English Terence, Mr. Will Deare": ou hadst been a companion d been a King among the And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us. 60, 61. Unwilling . . . aboard. .] As in Pope; one line in the Ff. 60. soon] soon! Pope; soon. Capell. 61. aboard.] aboard and put to sea, but scarce Editor conj. 68. doubtful] dreadful Theobald conj. weepings] F 1; weeping Ff 2, 3, 4. 75. this] thus Hudson (Collier). 70. 68. doubtful] Hardly, as Craig says, "awful," "dreadful"; but rather implying the great probability of the truth of the statement, like the Latin phrases haud scio an, dubito an, etc. Compare King Lear, v. i. 12: "I am doubtful that you have been conjunct And bosom'd with her." 77. sinking-ripe] Compare Love's Labour's Lost, v. ii. 274: "weepingripe"; and The Tempest, v. i. 279: "reeling-ripe." |