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(Enter STALINO, in haste, from the house of ALCESIMUS.)
STALINO
(aloud to himself.)
I’m branded with the greatest disgrace, nor what, under my circumstances to do, do I know. Nor yet how to look my wife in the face; so utterly undone am I! All my misdeeds are discovered.
In every way, to my confusion, I am ruined! So clearly am I hooked fast by the jaws! nor know I in what way to clear myself before my wife; wretch that I am, to have been stripped of my cloak!
These clandestine nuptials are all discovered.
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I judge it best for me
She taught my wife
the way
But who is there, what person would be ready to undertake this office
945
for me? What now to do I know not, except to imitate worthless slaves, and fly from the house; for there’s no safety for my shoulder-blades if I return home. I may tell lies there; i’ faith, I shall get a basting, though much against my will, although I have earned my punishment.
950
I’ll at once betake myself in this direction in flight.
955
(He begins to run.)
I’m branded with the greatest disgrace, nor what, under my circumstances to do, do I know. Nor yet how to look my wife in the face; so utterly undone am I! All my misdeeds are discovered.
In every way, to my confusion, I am ruined! So clearly am I hooked fast by the jaws! nor know I in what way to clear myself before my wife; wretch that I am, to have been stripped of my cloak!
These clandestine nuptials are all discovered.
940
I judge it best for me
She taught my wife
the way
But who is there, what person would be ready to undertake this office
945
for me? What now to do I know not, except to imitate worthless slaves, and fly from the house; for there’s no safety for my shoulder-blades if I return home. I may tell lies there; i’ faith, I shall get a basting, though much against my will, although I have earned my punishment.
950
I’ll at once betake myself in this direction in flight.
955
OLYMPIO
(coming forward with the others.)
Hallo there! Stop, this instant, you amorous one!
Hallo there! Stop, this instant, you amorous one!
STALINO
(to himself.)
I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear.
(Runs on.]
I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear.
Casina. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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