Reading The Comedie of Errors — William Shakespeare

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Duke.

Merchant of Siracusa, plead no more.

I am not partiall to infringe our Lawes;

The enmity and discord which of late

Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke,

To Merchants our well‑dealing Countrimen,

Who wanting gilders to redeeme their liues,

Haue seal'd his rigorous statutes with their

blouds,

Excludes all pitty from our threatning lookes:

For since the mortall and intestine iarres

Twixt thy seditious Countrimen and vs,

It hath in solemne Synodes beene decreed,

Both by the Siracusians and our

selues,

To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes:

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