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Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.
Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to day?
S. Ant. I, gentle mistress.

Adr. And are not you my hufband?
E. Ant. No, I fay nay to that.

S. Ant. And fo do I, yet fhe did call me fo:
And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,
Dia call me brother. What I told you then,
I hope, I shall have leifure to make good,
If this be not a dream, I fee and hear.

Ang. That is the chain, Sir, which you had of me.
S. Ant. I think it be, Sir, I deny it not.

E. Ant. And you, Sir, for this chain arrested me.
Ang. I think, I did, Sir, I deny it not.
Adr. I fent you mony, Sir, to be your bail,

By Dromio; but, I think, he brought it not.
E. Dro. No, none by me.

S. Ant. This purfe of ducats I receiv'd from you,
And Dromio my man did bring them me;
I fee, we ftill did meet each other's man,
And I was ta'en for him, and he for me,
And thereupon thefe Errors all arofe.

E. Ant. Thefe Ducats pawn I for my father here.
Duke. It fhall not need, thy father hath his life.
Cour. Sir, I must have that diamond from you.
E. Ant. There, take it; and much thanks for my
good cheer.

Abb. Renowned Duke, vouchfafe to take the pains To go with us into the abbey here,

And hear at large difcourfed all our fortunes:

And all that are affembled in this place,
That by this fympathized one day's Error
Have fuffer'd wrong; go, keep us company,
And ye fhall have full fatisfaction.

Twenty-five years have I but gone in travel

Of you my fons; nor, 'till this present hour,
My heavy burdens are delivered:

And

The Duke, my hufband, and my children both,
the calendars of their nativity,
Go to a goffip's feast and go with me:

you

Afte fo long grief such nativity!

Duke. With all my heart, I'll goffip at this feast.

[Exeunt.

SCENE VIII.

Manent the two Antipholis's, and two Dromio's.

S. Dro. Mafter, fhall I fetch your ftuff from fhip. boad?

E. Ant. Dromio, what ftuff of mine haft thou imbark'd?

S. Dro. Your goods, that lay at hoft, Sir, in the Centaur.

S. Ant. He speaks to me; I am your master,

Dromio.

ber here: and therefore I have ventur'd to alter it to twenty-five, upon a Proof, that, I think, amounts to demonftration. The Number, I prefume, was at first wrote in figures, and, perhaps, blindly; and thence the Miftake might arife. Egeon, in the first Scene of the firit Act, is precife as to the Time his Son left him, in Queft of his Brother: My youngest Boy, and yet my eldeft Care,

At eighteen years became inqui-
jinive

After his Brother, &c.
And how long it was from the
Son's thus parting from his Fa-
ther, to their meeting again at
Ephefus, where Egeon, mifta-
kenly, recognizes the Twin bro-

Come, go with us, we'll look to that anon;
Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him.
[Exeunt Antipholis S. and E.
S. Dro. There is a fat friend at your mafter's house,
That kitchen'd me for you to day at dinner;
She now fhall be my fifter, not my wife.

E. Dro. Methinks, you are my glass, and not my brother:

I fee by you, I am a fweet-fac'd youth:
Will you walk in to fee ther goffiping?
S. Dro. Not I, Sir; you are my elder.
E. Dro. That's a question:

How fhall I try it?

S. Dro. We'll draw cuts for the fenior:

'Till then, lead thou firft.

[Embracing.

E. Dro. Nay, then thus
We came into the world, like brother and brother:

And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

[Exeunt.

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DON PEDRO, Prince of Arragon.
Leonato, Governor of Meffina.

Don John, Bajlard Brother to Don Pedro.

Claudio, a young Lord of Florence, Favourite to Don Pedro.

Benedick, a young Lord of Padua, favour'd likewife by
Don Pedro.

Balthazar, Servant to Don Pedro.
Antonio, Brother to Leonato.
Borachio, Confident to Don John.
Conrade, Friend to Borachio.

Dogberry, } two foolish Officers.

Verges,

Hero, Daughter to Leonato.
Beatrice, Niece to Leonato.

Margaret, }

Urfula, two Gentlewomen, attending on Hero.

A Friar, Meffenger, Watch, Town-Clerk, Sexton, and Attendants.

SCENE, Meffina in Sicily.

The Story is from A iofio, Orl. Fur. B. v.

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