[Transcriber’s Note: This text of _The Comedy of Errors_ is from Volume I of the nine-volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The Preface (e-text 23041) and the other plays from this volume are each available as separate e-texts. General Notes are in their original location at the end of the play. Text-critical notes are grouped at the end of each Scene. All line numbers are from the original text; line breaks in dialogue--including prose passages--are unchanged. Brackets are also unchanged; to avoid ambiguity, footnotes and linenotes are given without added brackets. In the notes, numerals printed as subscripts are shown inline as F1, F2, Q1... Texts cited in the Notes are listed at the end of the e-text.] THE WORKS of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Edited by WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge; and JOHN GLOVER, M.A. Librarian Of Trinity College, Cambridge. _VOLUME I._ Cambridge and London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1863. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[1]. SOLINUS[2], duke of Ephesus. ÆGEON, a merchant of Syracuse. ANTIPHOLUS[3] of Ephesus, } twin brothers, and sons to ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, } Ægeon and Æmilia. DROMIO of Ephesus, } twin brothers, and attendants on DROMIO of Syracuse, } the two Antipholuses. BALTHAZAR, a merchant. ANGELO, a goldsmith. First Merchant, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse. Second Merchant, to whom Angelo is a debtor. PINCH, a schoolmaster. ÆMILIA, wife to Ægeon, an abbess at Ephesus. ADRIANA, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus. LUCIANA, her sister. LUCE, servant to Adriana. A Courtezan. Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants. _SCENE--Ephesus._ FOOTNOTES: 1: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ first given by Rowe. 2: SOLINUS] See note (I). 3: ANTIPHOLUS] See note (I). THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. ACT I. _SCENE I. A hall in the DUKE’S palace._ _Enter DUKE, ÆGEON, _Gaoler_, _Officers_, and other _Attendants_._ _Æge._ Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall, And by the doom of death end woes and all.