Clown fings.

When that I was an a little tiny boy, jest w aud
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain: oil
A foolish thing was but a toy,

For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came to man's estate,

With hey, ho, &c.

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'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,

For the rain, &c.

But when I came, alas! to wive,
With hey, ho, &c.

By fwaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain, &c.

But when I came unto my beds,
With hey, ho, &c.

With tofs-pots ftill had drunken heads,
For the rain, &c.

A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, &c.

But that's all one, our Play is done;

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Twin-Brothers, and Slaves to the

Dromio of Syracufe, Sw Antipholis's

Balthazar, a Merchant,

Angelo, a Goldsmith.

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A Merchant, Friend to Antipholis of Syracufe.
Dr. Pinch, a School-mafter, and a Conjurer.

Emilia, Wife to Egeon, an Abbess at Ephefus
Adriana, Wife to Antipholis of Ephefus.

Luciana, Sifter to Adriana.

Luce, Serviant to Adriana.

Enter the Duke of Ephefus, geon, Jailor, and other Attendants, b

Roceed, Salinus, to procure my fall,

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And by the doom of death end woes and all.
Duke. Merchant of Syracufa, plead no more;

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I am not partial to infringe our laws :
The enmity, and difcord, which of late

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(1) Comedy of ERRORS.] The controverfy of our Author's acquaintance with the Latin tongue has been partly canvafs'd upon his having writ this Play. "It is in great meafure taken (fays Mr. Rowe) from the Menæchmi of Plautus. How that happen'd, eafily divine; fince I do not take him to have been maf"ster of Latif enough to read it in the original and I know of no tranflation of Plautus so old as his time". -Thus far, his acquaintance

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