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(CHRYSALUS, alone.)
CHRYSALUS
A tremendously great business am I undertaking, and I have my fears how in this one day I may accomplish it. But now I have occasion for the old blade to be fierce and savage at me. For it suits not this plan of mine
that the old fellow should be calm when he has beheld me in his presence. I’ll turn him about
1
this day, finely, if I live. I’ll have him parched as well as ever pea was parched
2
. I’ll walk before the door, that when he comes out, at once as he comes up, I may put the letters
3
in his hand.
765
(Stands near the door of BACCHIS.)
A tremendously great business am I undertaking, and I have my fears how in this one day I may accomplish it. But now I have occasion for the old blade to be fierce and savage at me. For it suits not this plan of mine
that the old fellow should be calm when he has beheld me in his presence. I’ll turn him about
1
this day, finely, if I live. I’ll have him parched as well as ever pea was parched
2
. I’ll walk before the door, that when he comes out, at once as he comes up, I may put the letters
3
in his hand.
765
Bacchides. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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