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1

Comedy of Errors
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other]
Attendants]

2

Comedy of Errors
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

162

Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse, and First Merchant]

3

Comedy of Errors
[I, 2]

Antipholus of Syracuse

197

He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
[Enter DROMIO of Ephesus]
Here comes the almanac of my true date.
What now? how chance thou art return'd so soon?

4

Comedy of Errors
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

272

[Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA]

5

Comedy of Errors
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

316

[Enter DROMIO of Ephesus]

6

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

392

[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse]

7

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

Antipholus of Syracuse

393

The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up
Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave
Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out
By computation and mine host's report.
I could not speak with Dromio since at first
I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes.
[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse]
How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd?
As you love strokes, so jest with me again.
You know no Centaur? you received no gold?
Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?
My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,
That thus so madly thou didst answer me?

8

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

498

[Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA]

9

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

Adriana

593

Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,
To put the finger in the eye and weep,
Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn.
Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate.
Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day
And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks.
Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,
Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter.
Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well.

10

Comedy of Errors
[II, 2]

Adriana

608

Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate.

11

Comedy of Errors
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

611

Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, DROMIO of Ephesus, ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR]

12

Comedy of Errors
[III, 1]

Balthazar

720

Have patience, sir; O, let it not be so!
Herein you war against your reputation
And draw within the compass of suspect
The unviolated honour of your wife.
Once this,—your long experience of her wisdom,
Her sober virtue, years and modesty,
Plead on her part some cause to you unknown:
And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse
Why at this time the doors are made against you.
Be ruled by me: depart in patience,
And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,
And about evening come yourself alone
To know the reason of this strange restraint.
If by strong hand you offer to break in
Now in the stirring passage of the day,
A vulgar comment will be made of it,
And that supposed by the common rout
Against your yet ungalled estimation
That may with foul intrusion enter in
And dwell upon your grave when you are dead;
For slander lives upon succession,
For ever housed where it gets possession.

13

Comedy of Errors
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

762

[Enter LUCIANA and ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse]

14

Comedy of Errors
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

837

[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse]

15

Comedy of Errors
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

925

[Enter ANGELO with the chain]

16

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

950

[Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer]

17

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 1]

Angelo

957

Even just the sum that I do owe to you
Is growing to me by Antipholus,
And in the instant that I met with you
He had of me a chain: at five o'clock
I shall receive the money for the same.
Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,
I will discharge my bond and thank you too.
[Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus]
from the courtezan's]

18

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1038

[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse, from the bay]

19

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1071

[Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA]

20

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1102

[Enter DROMIO of Syracuse]