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 \nI am not partial to infringe our laws.The enmity and discord which of late  \nSprung from the rancorous outrage of your dukeTo merchants,our well-dealing countrymen,Who,wanting guilders to redeem their lives,  \nHave seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,Excludes all pity from our threat'ning 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  \nBe seen at any Syracusian marts and fairs;Again,if any Syracusian born  \nCome to the bay of Ephesus-he dies,  \nHis goods confiscate to the Duke's 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 condemn'd to die.  \nAEGEON.Yet this my comfort:when your words are done,My woes end likewise with the evening sun.DUKE.Well,Syracusian,say in brief the causeWhy thou departed'st from thy native home,And for what cause thou cam'st to Ephesus.  \nAEGEON.A heavier task could not have been impos'dThan I to speak my griefs unspeakable;  \nYet,that the world may witness that my endWas wrought by nature,not by vile offence,I'll utter what my sorrow gives me leave.In Syracuse was I born,and wedUnto a woman,happy but for me,And by me,had not our hap been bad.With her I liv'd in joy;our wealth increas'dBy prosperous voyages I often madeTo Epidamnum;till my factor's death,And the great care of goods at random left,  \nDrew me from kind embracements of my spouse:From whom my absence was not six months old,Before herself,almost at fainting underThe pleasing punishment that women bear,Had made provision for her following me,And soon and safe arrived where I was.  \nThere had she not been long but she becameA joyful mother of two goodly sons;  \nAnd,which was strange,the one so like the otherAs could not be disdnguish'd but by names.That very hour,and in the self-same inn,A mean woman was delivered  \nOf such a burden,male twins,both alike.Those,for their parents were exceeding poor,I bought,and brought up to attend my sons.My wife,not meanly proud of two such boys,Made daily motions for our home return;Unwilling,I agreed.Alas!too soonWe came aboard.  \nA league from Epidamnum had we sail'dBefore the always-wind-obeying deepGave any tragic instance of our harm:But longer did we not retain much hope,  \nFor what obscured light the heavens did grantDid but convey unto our fearful mindsA doubtful warrant of immediate death;  \nWhich though myself would gladly have embrac'd,Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,  \nWeeping before for what she saw must come,And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,  \nThat mourn'd for fashion,ignorant what to fear,Forc'd me to seek delays for them and me.And this it was,for other means was none:The sailors sought for safety by our boat,And left the ship,then sinking-ripe,to us;My wife,more careful for the latter-born,Had fast'ned him unto a s","cbCaidE9fm7rFjqM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidE9fm7rFjqM","pdf",3648659,76,"English","# Dramatis Personae\n## Setting and Acts\n# Act I, Scene 1\n## The Duke’s Law and Aegeon’s Trial Narrative","[{\"question\":\"What law puts Aegeon from Syracuse at risk of death?\",\"answer\":\"Solinus, Duke of Ephesus, threatens Aegeon because the cities prohibit trade and even ban people born in one city from appearing in the other. 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