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 husband ?

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,
Did call me brother. What I told
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 Dremio 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.

Το

E. Ant. Thefe ducats pawn I for my father here.
Duke. It fhall not need, thy father hath his life.
Cour. Sir, I muft 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
go with us into the abbey here,

And here 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.

4

Twenty-five years have I but gone in travel

4 In former Editions:

Of

impoffible the Poet could be fo

Thirty-three years. ] 'Tis forgetful, as to defign this Num,

ber

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

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

Go to a goflip's feaft and 5 go with me:
After fo long grief fuch 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, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?

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 fpeaks to me; I am your mafler,

Dromio.

ber here and therefore I have
ventur'd to alter it to twenty-five,
upon a Proof, that, I think, a-
mounts 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 Quelt of his Brother:
My youngest By, and yet my eldest
Care,

At eighteen years became inqui-
fitive

Af er bis Brother, &c. And how long it was from the Son's thus parting from his Father, to their meeting. again at Ephelus, where geon, miftakenly, 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 houfe, That kitchen'd me for you to day at dinner;

She now shall be my fifter, not my wife.

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

I fee by you, I am a fweet-fac'd youth:
Will you walk in to fee their 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 first.

E. Dro. Nay, then thus

[Embracing.

We came into the world, like brother and brother: And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

[Exeunt.

MUCH

MUCHAD O

ABOUT

NOTHING,

Dramatis Perfonæ.

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

Don John, Bastard 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.

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

Attendants.

SCENE, Melina in Sicily.

The Story is from Arioflo Orl. Fur. B. v.

POPE.

MUCH