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  THE WORKS

  of

  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE


  Edited by

  WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.
  Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator
  in the University of Cambridge;

  and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.
  Librarian Of Trinity College, Cambridge.


  _VOLUME I._


  Cambridge and London:
  MACMILLAN AND CO.
  1863.




THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.




DRAMATIS PERSONAE[1].

SOLINUS[2], duke of Ephesus.
AEGEON, a merchant of Syracuse.
ANTIPHOLUS[3] of Ephesus, } twin