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(Enter PYTHODICUS, from the house of MEGADORUS.)
PYTHODICUS
Mind you your business; I’ll step in and see what the cooks are doing, to observe whom, i’ faith, to-day it is a most laborious task.
Unless I manage this one thing, for them to cook the dinner down in the dungeon
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; thence, when cooked, we might bring it up again in small baskets. But if they should eat below
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whatever they should cook, those above would go without their dinner, and those below have dined. But here am I chattering, as though I had no business,
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when there’s such a pack of thieves in the house.
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(Goes into the house.)
Mind you your business; I’ll step in and see what the cooks are doing, to observe whom, i’ faith, to-day it is a most laborious task.
Unless I manage this one thing, for them to cook the dinner down in the dungeon
1
; thence, when cooked, we might bring it up again in small baskets. But if they should eat below
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whatever they should cook, those above would go without their dinner, and those below have dined. But here am I chattering, as though I had no business,
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when there’s such a pack of thieves in the house.
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Aulularia. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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