Two men who look the same

But have a different aim

It's a series of funny misunderstandings

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Two twins each with a lover

Who mistake each for the other

Somehow fall into the service of a mad king

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Take this letter; wait there's two

And they mix up which goes to who

The comic complications keep expanding

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In a tale so confused

You can't help but be amused

By this series of funny misunderstandings

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A jilted bride; that's not funny

Pretend she died? On the money

And her poisoned body's hidden by a monk

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Until a fool who's quite smart

He's a fool, that's a start

Says, "this monk is nuts" and locks him in a trunk

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And his servant, make him thick

Then hit him with a stick

It's a series of funny misunderstandings

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Cue a mixed-up wedding blessing

Further vexed by more cross-dressing

Which goes on to heal two families at war

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When the bride they thought was dead

Comes back with a donkey's head

But marries anyway because her groom

Has been drugged by a whore!

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Add a priest, add a lion

Add a wrangle over money

It's too much; I'm confused

Yes, that's what makes it funny

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Severed heads, star-crossed lovers,

English kings, evil mothers

With a big happy ending notwithstanding

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We think you'll agree

This has turned out to be

A series of funny misunderstandings!