Egon. Is not your name, fir, call'd Antipholis? And is not that your bondman Dromio?

E. Dro. Within this hour I was his bondman, fir, But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords; Now am I Dromio, and his man, unbound.

Egeon. I am fure, you both of you remember me. E. Dro. Ourfelves we do remember, fir, by you; For lately we were bound, as you are now. You are not Pinch's patient, are you, fir?

Egeon. Why look you strange on me? you know me well.

E. Ant. I never faw you in my life, 'till now. Egeon. Oh! grief hath chang'd me fince you faw me laft;

And careful hours, with time's deformed hand
Have written ftrange defeatures in my face:
But tell me yet, do thou not know my voice?
E. Ant. Neither.

Egeon. Dromio, nor thou?

E. Dro. No, truft me, fir, nor I.
Egeon. I am fure, thou doft.

E. Dro. Ay, fir?

But I am fure, I do not; and whatsoever
A man denies, you are now bound to believe him.
Egeon. Not know my voice! Oh, time's extre-

mity!

Haft thou fo crack'd and splitted my poor tongue
In feven fhort years, that here my only fon
Knows not my feeble key of untun'd cares?
Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In fap-confuming winter's drizzled fnow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up;
Yet hath my night of life fome memory,
My wafting lamps fome fading glimmer left,

My dun deaf ears a little use to hear:
All these old witneffes (I cannot err)
Tell me thou art my fon Antipholis.

E. Art. I never saw my father in my life. Egeon. But foven years fince, in Syracufa, boy Thou knoweit, we parted: but, perhaps, my fon Thon fham' to acknowledge me in mifery.

E. Art. The duke, and all that know me in the Can witne's with me that it is not so;

I ne'er faw Syracufa in my life.

[city

Duke. I tell thee, Syracufan, twenty years
Have I been patron to Antipholis,

During which time he ne'er faw Syracufa :
I fee, thy age and dangers make thee dote.

Enter the Abbefs, with ANTIPHOLIS Syracufan, and
DROMIO Syracufan.

Abb. Moft mighty Duke, behold a man much [All gather to fee him. Adr. I fee two hufbands, or mine eyes deceive

wrong'd.

me.

Duke. One of these men is genius to the other; And fo of thefe: Which is the natural man, And which the fpirit? who deciphers them?

S. Dro. I, fir, am Dromio; command him away. E.Dro. I, fir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay. S. Ant. Ægeon, art thou not? or else his ghost? S. Dro. O, my old mafter! who hath bound him here?

Abb. Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds, And gain a husband by his liberty :Speak, old Egeon, if thou be'st the man That had'it a wife once call'd Æmilia, That bore thee at a burden two fair fons?

Ob,

Oh, if thou be'ft the fame Ægeon, speak,
And speak unto the fame Æmilia!

Duke. Why, here begins his morning ftory right: These two Antipholis's, these two so like, And those two Dromio's, one in femblance,Befides her urging of her wreck at fea,These are the parents to these children, Which accidentally are met together.

Egeon. If I dream not, thou art Æmilia; f thou art fhe, tell me, where is that fon That floated with thee on the fatal raft?

Abb. By men of Epidamnum, he, and I, And the twin Dromio, all were taken up; But, by and by, rude fishermen of Corinth By force took Dromio, and my fon from them, And me they left with thofe of Epidamnum : What then became of them, I cannot tell ; to this fortune that you fee me in.

Duke. Antipholis, thou cam'ft from Corinth first. S. Ant. No, fir, not I; I came from Syracufe. Duke. Stay, ftand apart; I know not which is which.

E. Ant. I came from Corinth, my most gracious
E. Dro. And I with him.
[lord.
E. Ant. Brought to this town by that most
famous warrior

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 you not my husband?
E. Ant. No, I fay, nay to that.

S. Ant. And fo do I, yet the did call me fo;
And this fair gentlewoman, her fifter here,

Did call me brother :-What I told you then,
I hope, I fhall have leisure to make good;
If this be not a dream, I fee, and hear.

Ang. That is the chain, fir, which you had of me
S. Ant. I think, it be, fir; I deny it not.
E. Ant. And you, fir, for this chain arrested me
Ang. I think, I did, fir; I deny it not.

Adr. I fent you money, fir, to be your bail,
By Dromio; but I think he brought it not.
S. Dro. No, none by me.

S. Ant. This purse 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 these errors are arose.

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, vouchsafe 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 fuffered wrong, go keep us company,
And ye fhall have full fatisfaction.-
Twenty-five years have I but gone in travail
Of you, my fons; and, 'till this present hour,
My heavy burden not delivered :—

The duke, my husband, and my children both,
And you the calendars of their nativity,

Go to a goffip's feaft, and go with me;
After fo long grief fuch nativity!

Duke

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

[Exeunt.

Manent the two ANTIPHOLIS's, and the two DROMIO's. S. Dro. Mafter, fhall I fetch your ftuff from shipboard?

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

S. Dro. Your goods that lay at host, fir, in the Centaur.

S. Ant. He fpeaks to me; I am your master, Dromio:

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 master's houfe,

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 sweet fac'd youth..
Will you walk in to fee their goffipping?
S. Dro. Not I, fir; you are my elder.
E. Dro. That's a question:

How fhall we try it?

S. Dro. We fhall draw

Cuts for the fenior: 'till then lead thou first.
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 a

nother.

[Exeunt.

THE END.