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First Merchant of Ephesus, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse

Second Merchant of Ephesus, to whom Angelo is a debtor

Doctor Pinch, a conjuring schoolmaster

Aemilia, wife to Egeon, an abbess at Ephesus

Adriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus

Luciana, her sister

Luce, servant to Adriana (also known as Nell)

Courtezan

Jailer, Headsman, Messenger, Officers, and other Attendants

Scene: Ephesus]

Enter the Duke of Ephesus with [Egeon] the merchant of Syracusa, Jailer [with Officers], and other Attendants.

Ege.

Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall,

And by the doom of death end woes and all.

Duke.

Merchant of Syracusa, 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 lives,

Have seal’d his rigorous statutes with their bloods,

Excludes all pity from our threat’ning looks:

For since the mortal and intestine jars