The Comedy of Errors

AEGEON. 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 lives Have seald his rigorous statutes with their bloods Excludes all pity from our threatning looks. For since the mortal and intestine jars Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us It hath in solemn synods been decreed Both by the Syracusians and ourselves To admit no traffic to our adverse towns; Nay more: if any born at Ephesus Be seen at any Syracusian marts and fairs; Again if any Syracusian born Come to the bay of Ephesus-he dies His goods confiscate to the Dukes dispose Unless a thousand marks be levied To quit the penalty and to ransom him. Thy substance valued at the highest rate Cannot amount unto a hundred marks; Therefore by law thou art condemnd to die.