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(Enter LYCONIDES and EUNOMIA, from the house of MEGADORUS.)
LYCONIDES
I’ve told you all, mother; as well as I do myself, you understand all about the daughter of Euclio. Now, I do entreat you, my mother, make mention of it to my uncle, and I now unask of you, mother, that which before I entreated of you, to conceal this from Megadorus.
I’ve told you all, mother; as well as I do myself, you understand all about the daughter of Euclio. Now, I do entreat you, my mother, make mention of it to my uncle, and I now unask of you, mother, that which before I entreated of you, to conceal this from Megadorus.
EUNOMIA
You know, yourself, that what you desire to be done, I desire, and I trust that I shall obtain this of my brother; and the reason is good, if ’tis so as you say, that in a drunken fit you debauched this damsel.
You know, yourself, that what you desire to be done, I desire, and I trust that I shall obtain this of my brother; and the reason is good, if ’tis so as you say, that in a drunken fit you debauched this damsel.
LYCONIDES
Could I, my mother, tell a falsehood in your presence?
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Could I, my mother, tell a falsehood in your presence?
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PHAEDRA
(PHAEDRA cries out in labour, in EUCLIO’S house.)
I die, my nurse; my pangs are coming on! I entreat thee for thy protection, Juno Lucina
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I die, my nurse; my pangs are coming on! I entreat thee for thy protection, Juno Lucina
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LYCONIDES
Ah! my mother, I see a more convincing proof for you; she’s crying aloud—she’s in the pangs of labour.
Ah! my mother, I see a more convincing proof for you; she’s crying aloud—she’s in the pangs of labour.
EUNOMIA
Come in-doors here, with me, my son, to my brother,
that I may obtain a grant from him of that which you beg of me.
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Come in-doors here, with me, my son, to my brother,
that I may obtain a grant from him of that which you beg of me.
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LYCONIDES
Go; I’ll follow you this instant, mother.
(EUNOMIA goes into the house.) But my servant, Strobilus, I wonder where he is, whom I ordered to wait here for me. Now I reflect with myself, if he’s lending me his assistance, it isn’t fair that I should be angry with him.
I’ll go in-doors, where they are sitting in judgment
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upon my life.
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(Goes into the house of MEGADORUS.)
Go; I’ll follow you this instant, mother.
(EUNOMIA goes into the house.) But my servant, Strobilus, I wonder where he is, whom I ordered to wait here for me. Now I reflect with myself, if he’s lending me his assistance, it isn’t fair that I should be angry with him.
I’ll go in-doors, where they are sitting in judgment
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upon my life.
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Aulularia. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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