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(Enter CLEOSTRATA and PARDALISCA, from the house of STALINO.)
CLEOSTRATA
(at the door, to the SERVANTS, within.)
Seal fast the store-rooms
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, bring back the signet to me.
I’m going here to my next door neighbour; if my husband wants me for anything, take care and send for me thence.
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Seal fast the store-rooms
1
, bring back the signet to me.
I’m going here to my next door neighbour; if my husband wants me for anything, take care and send for me thence.
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PARDALISCA
The old gentleman ordered a breakfast to be got ready for him to-day.
The old gentleman ordered a breakfast to be got ready for him to-day.
CLEOSTRATA
Tut! Hold your tongue, and be off.
(PARDALISCA goes into the house.) I don’t prepare it, and it shan’t be cooked; since he sets himself against myself and his son,
for the sake of his passion and his appetite. A disgraceful fellow that! I’ll punish this lover with hunger, I’ll punish him with thirst, with abuse, with hardships.
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By my faith, I’ll thoroughly worry him with disagreable speeches; I’ll make him to pass a life in future just as he deserves—fit food for Acheron, a hunter after iniquity, a stable of infamy!
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Now I’ll away hence to my neighbours, to lament my lot. But the door makes a noise; and see, she’s coming out of doors herself. On my word, I’ve not started for my call at a convenient time.
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Tut! Hold your tongue, and be off.
(PARDALISCA goes into the house.) I don’t prepare it, and it shan’t be cooked; since he sets himself against myself and his son,
for the sake of his passion and his appetite. A disgraceful fellow that! I’ll punish this lover with hunger, I’ll punish him with thirst, with abuse, with hardships.
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By my faith, I’ll thoroughly worry him with disagreable speeches; I’ll make him to pass a life in future just as he deserves—fit food for Acheron, a hunter after iniquity, a stable of infamy!
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Now I’ll away hence to my neighbours, to lament my lot. But the door makes a noise; and see, she’s coming out of doors herself. On my word, I’ve not started for my call at a convenient time.
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Casina. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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