Philocleon goes on with his fable while Bdelycleon is carrying him off the scene by main force.
Chorus
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I envy you your happiness, old man. What a contrast to his former frugal habits and his very hard life! Taught now in quite another school, he will know nothing but
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the pleasures of ease. Perhaps he will jibe at it, for indeed it is difficult to renounce what has become one's second nature. However, many have done it,
1460
and adopting the ideas of others, have changed their use and wont.
1450
I envy you your happiness, old man. What a contrast to his former frugal habits and his very hard life! Taught now in quite another school, he will know nothing but
1455
the pleasures of ease. Perhaps he will jibe at it, for indeed it is difficult to renounce what has become one's second nature. However, many have done it,
1460
and adopting the ideas of others, have changed their use and wont.
Wasps. Aristophanes. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.. New York. 1938.
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