Egeon

Egeon 
Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,
And by the doom of death end woes and all.
Duke 
Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more.
I am not partial to infringe our laws.

Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,
My woes end likewise with the evening sun.

The enmity and discord which of late
Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
To merchants,
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Duke 
Hapless Egeon, whom the fates have marked
To bear the extremity of dire mishap,
Now, trust me, were it not against our laws,
Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,
Which princes, would they, may not disannul,
My soul should sue as advocate for thee.

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end.
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Egeon, to Antipholus of Ephesus
Why look you strange on me? You know me well.
Antipholus of Ephesus
I never saw you in my life till now.

Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.
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Not know my voice! O time’s extremity,
Hast thou so crack’d and splitted my poor tongue
In seven short years, that here my only son
Knows not my feeble key of untun’d cares?
Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter’s drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze upMetaphor,
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Abbess
Most mighty duke, behold a man much wronged.
 All gather to see them.
Adriana
I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.

One of these men is genius to the other.
And so, of these, which is the natural man
And which the spirit?

Duke
One of these men is genius to the other.
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