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Egeon, a merchant from Syracuse, has landed in Ephesus where Syracusians are forbidden to go. He has been captured and taken to the Duke of Ephesus who tells him that he is either to pay a thousand ducats or be executed. Egeon has no money and so must be executed, but first the Duke questions him about his past and his journey to Ephesus. Egeon tells the story of having a wife and twin sons and adopting two other twins to be his sons servants, but then being separated in a shipwreck. He was
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EGEON
Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall
And by the doom of death end woes and all.
DUKE
Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;
I am not partial to infringe our laws:
The enmity and discord which of late
Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,
Who wanting guilders to redeem their
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