T. Maccius Plautus, Casina, ed. Friedrich Leo, 2.8

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437

Olympio

Sine modo rus veniat: ego remittam ad te virum

cum furca in urbem tamquam carbonarium.

Lysidamvs

Ita fieri oportet.

Olympio

Factum et curatum dabo.

Lysidamvs

Volui Chalinum, si domi esset, mittere
440

tecum obsonatum, ut etiam in maerore insuper

inimico nostro miseriam hanc adiungerem.

Chalinvs

Recessim cedam ad parietem, imitabor nepam;

captandust horum clanculum sermo mihi.

nam illorum me alter cruciat, alter macerat.
445

at candidatus cedit hic mastigia,

stimulorum loculi. protollo mortem mihi;

certum est, hunc Acheruntem praemittam prius.

Olympio

Vt tibi ego inventus sum obsequens. quod maxime

cupiebas, eius copiam feci tibi.
450

erit hodie tecum quod amas clam uxorem.

Lysidamvs

Tace.

ita me di bene ament, ut ego vix reprimo labra

ob istánc rem quin te deosculer, voluptas mea.

Chalinvs

Quid, deosculere? quae res? quae voluptas tua?

ecfodere hercle hic volt, credo, vesicam vilico.†
455

Olympio

Ecquid amas nunc me?

Lysidamvs

Immo edepol me quam te minus.

licetne amplecti te?

Chalinvs

Quid, amplecti?

Olympio

Licet.

Lysidamvs

Vt, quia te tango, mel mihi videor lingere.

Olympio

Vltro te, amator, apage te a dorso meo.

Chalinvs

Illuc est, illuc, quod hic hunc fecit vilicum:
460

eidem me pridem, cum ei advorsum veneram,

facere atriensem voluerat sub ianua.

Olympio

Vt tibi morigerus hodie, ut voluptati fui.

Lysidamvs

Vt tibi, dum vivam, bene velim plus quam mihi.

Chalinvs

Hodie hercle, opinor, hi conturbabunt pedes:
465

solet hic barbatos sane sectari senex.

Lysidamvs

Vt ego hodie Casinam deosculabor, ut mihi

bona multa faciam clam meam uxorem.

Chalinvs

Attatae,

nunc pol ego demum in rectam redii semitam.

hic ipsus Casinam deperit. habeo viros.
470

Lysidamvs

Iam hercle amplexari, iam osculari gestio.

Olympio

Sine prius deduci. quid, malum, properas?

Lysidamvs

Amo.

Olympio

At non opinor fieri hoc posse hodie.

Lysidamvs

Potest,

siquidém cras censes te posse emitti manu.

Chalinvs

Enim véro huc aures magis sunt adhibendae mihi:
475

iam ego uno in saltu lepide apros capiam duos.

Lysidamvs

Apud hunc sodalem meum atque vicinum mihi

locus est paratus: ei ego amorem omnem meum

concredui; is mihi se locum dixit dare.

Olympio

Quid eius uxor? ubi erit?
480

Lysidamvs

Lepide repperi.

mea uxór vocabit huc eam ad se in nuptias,

ut hic sit secum, se adiuvet, secum cubet;

ego iussi, et dixit se facturam uxor mea.

illa hic cubabit, vir aberit faxo domo;

tu rus uxorem duces: id rus hic erit
485

tantisper dum égo cum Casina faciam nuptias.

hinc tu ante lucem rus cras duces postea.

satin docte?

Olympio

Astute.

Chalinvs

Age modo, fabricamini,

malo hercle vestro tam vorsuti vivitis.

Lysidamvs

Scin quid nunc facias?
490

Olympio

Loquere.

Lysidamvs

Tene marsuppium,

abi atque obsona, propera, sed lepide volo,

molliculas escas, út ipsa mollicula est.

Olympio

Licet.

Lysidamvs

Emito sepiolas, lepadas, lolligunculas,

hordeías.

Chalinvs

Immo triticeías, si sapis.

Lysidamvs

Soleas.
495

Chalinvs

Qui quaeso potius quam sculponeas,

quibus báttuatur tíbi os, senex nequissime?

Olympio

Vin lingulacas?

Lysidamvs

Quid opust, quando uxor domi est?

ea lingulaca est nobis, nam numquam tacet.

Olympio

In re praesenti ex copia piscaria

consulere quid emam potero.
500

Lysidamvs

Aéquom oras, abi.

argento parci nolo, obsonato ampliter.

nam mihi vicino hoc etiam convento est opus,

ut quod mandavi curet.

Olympio

Iamne abeo?

Lysidamvs

Volo.—

Chalinvs

Tribus nón conduci possum libertatibus,

quin ego illis hodie comparem magnum malum
505

quinque hanc omnem rem meae erae iam faciam palam.

manifesto teneo in noxia inimicos meos.

sed si nunc facere volt era officium suom,

nostra omnis lis est. pulchre praevortar viros.

nostro omine it dies; iam victi vicimus.
510

ibo intro, ut id quod alius condivit cocus,

ego nunc vicissim ut alio pacto condiam,

quo id quoi paratum est ut paratum ne siet

sitque ei paratum quod paratum non erat.—

Casina. T. Maccius Plautus. ed. Friedrich Leo. Berlin. 1895.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

Casina (Latin) (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 1. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895.)

Translations (1)

Casina, or The Stratagem Defeated Perseus (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 2. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.) — 2.8 focus

437 (Enter STALINO and OLYMPIO, from the house.)

OLYMPIO

Only let him come into the country; I’ll send the fellow back into the city to you with his porter’s knot¹, as black as a collier.

STALINO

So it ought to be.

OLYMPIO

I’ll have that done and well taken care of.

STALINO

I intended, if he had been at home, to send Chalinus to cater with you; that, even in his sadness, I might, in addition,inflict this misfortune upon our foe.
440

CHALINUS

(apart, retreating to the wall of the house.)

I’ll betake me back again to the wall; I’ll imitate the crab. Their conversation must be secretly picked up by me;

for the one of them is tormenting me, the other wasting me with anguish. Why, this whip-rascal is marching along in his white garb², a very receptacle for stripes. My own death I defer; I’m determined to send this fellow to Acheron before me.
445

OLYMPIO

How obsequious have I been found to you! A thing that you especially

desired, that same have I put in your power; this day the object that you love shall be with you, unknown to your wife.
450

STALINO

Hush! So may the Deities kindly bless me, I can hardly withhold my lips from kissing you on account of this, my own delight!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

What? Kiss him? What’s the meaning of this? What’s this delight of yours?

OLYMPIO

Do you love me at all now?

STALINO

Aye, by my faith, myself even less than you. May I embrace you?

OLYMPIO

You may.

(STALINO embraces him.)

STALINO

How, when I touch you, I do seem to myself to be tasting honey!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

I really do think he intends to choke the bailiff.
455

OLYMPIO

(pushing STALINO away.)

Away with you, you lover; get off, with your too close acquaintanceship!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

I’ faith, I think that³ this very day they’ll be making terms. Surely,this old fellow is an universal admirer.
465

This is the reason, this is it why he made him his bailiff; some time ago, too, when I came in his way, he wanted to make me his chamberlain upon the like terms.
460

OLYMPIO

How subservient have I proved to you to-day, how attentive to your pleasure!

STALINO

How surely, so long as I live, will I prove more of a well-wisher to you than to my own self!

How will I this day give full many a kiss to Casina! How will I, unknown to my wife, right pleasantly enjoy myself!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Oho! Now, faith,at last I’ve got into the right track.

It’s himself that’s dying for Casina. I’ve caught the fellows.
470

STALINO

Even now, by my troth, am I longing to embrace her; even now to be kissing her.

OLYMPIO

Do let her be brought out first from the house. Why the plague are you in such a hurry?

STALINO

I’m in love.

OLYMPIO

But I don’t think that this can possibly be managed to-day.

STALINO

It can, if, indeed, you think that you can possibly receive your freedom to-morrow.

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Why, really, I must make still better use here of my ears; now, in one thicket, I shall be cleverly catching two boars.
475

STALINO

(pointing to the house of ALCESIMUS.)

At the house of this friend and neighbour of mine there’s a place provided; I have confided to him all my amorousness: he said that he would find me a room.

OLYMPIO

What will his wife do? Where will she be?
480

STALINO

I’ve cleverly contrived that: my wife will invite her here, to her own house, to the wedding; to be here with her, to help her, to sleep with her. I have requested it, and my wife has said that she will do so. She’ll be sleeping here: I’ll take care her husband is away from home.

You shall take your wife home into the country; that country shall be this house, for a period, until I’ve had my marriage with Casina. Hence,before daylight, you shall afterwards take her home to-morrow.Isn’t it very skilfully managed?
485

OLYMPIO

Cleverly!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Only do proceed; contrive away. By my troth, to your own mischance are you so clever.

STALINO

Do you know what you must do now?
490

OLYMPIO

Tell me.

STALINO

(giving him a purse.)

Take this purse. Be off and buy some provisions: make haste. But I want it nicely done: delicate eatables, just as she herself is a delicate bit.

OLYMPIO

Very well.

STALINO

Buy some cuttle-fish, mussels, calamaries, barley-fish⁴.

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Aye, wheaten fish, if you know what you’re about.

STALINO

Some sole-fish⁵.
495

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Prithee, why those rather than soles of wood, with which your head may be banged, you most vile old fellow?

OLYMPIO

Should you like some tongue-fish⁶?

STALINO

What need is there, since my wife’s at home? She is our tongue-fish, for she’s never silent.

OLYMPIO

While I’m about it, I must make choice out of the supply of fish what to purchase.

STALINO

You say what’s good: be off. I don’t care to spare for cost; provide abundantly. But it’s requisite also that I should see this neighbour of mine, that he may attend to what I’ve requested.

OLYMPIO

Am I to go now?

STALINO

I wish you.

(Exit OLYMPIO. STALINO goes into the house of ALCESIMUS.)

CHALINUS

(coming forward.)

By three freedoms I could not be induced

this day to do other than provide a heavy retribution for them, and at once disclose all this matter to my mistress. I’ve caught and fully detected my enemies in their guilt. But if my mistress is ready now to do her duty, the cause is all our own: I’ll cleverly be beforehand with the fellows.
505

With omens in our favour the day proceeds: just conquered, we are the conquerors. I’ll go indoors, that that which another cook has seasoned, I now, in my turn, may season after another fashion; and that for him for whom it was prepared, it may really not be prepared; and that that may be prepared for him, which before was not prepared⁷.
510
(Goes into the house.)

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Olympio Sine modo rus veniat: ego remittam ad te virum cum furca in urbem tamquam carbonarium.

Lysidamvs Ita fieri oportet.

Olympio Factum et curatum dabo.

Lysidamvs Volui Chalinum, si domi esset, mittere 440 tecum obsonatum, ut etiam in maerore insuper inimico nostro miseriam hanc adiungerem.

Chalinvs Recessim cedam ad parietem, imitabor nepam; captandust horum clanculum sermo mihi. nam illorum me alter cruciat, alter macerat. 445 at candidatus cedit hic mastigia, stimulorum loculi. protollo mortem mihi; certum est, hunc Acheruntem praemittam prius.

Olympio Vt tibi ego inventus sum obsequens. quod maxime cupiebas, eius copiam feci tibi. 450 erit hodie tecum quod amas clam uxorem.

Lysidamvs Tace. ita me di bene ament, ut ego vix reprimo labra ob istánc rem quin te deosculer, voluptas mea.

Chalinvs Quid, deosculere? quae res? quae voluptas tua? ecfodere hercle hic volt, credo, vesicam vilico.† 455

Olympio Ecquid amas nunc me?

Lysidamvs Immo edepol me quam te minus. licetne amplecti te?

Chalinvs Quid, amplecti?

Olympio Licet.

Lysidamvs Vt, quia te tango, mel mihi videor lingere.

Olympio Vltro te, amator, apage te a dorso meo.

Chalinvs Illuc est, illuc, quod hic hunc fecit vilicum: 460 eidem me pridem, cum ei advorsum veneram, facere atriensem voluerat sub ianua.

Olympio Vt tibi morigerus hodie, ut voluptati fui.

Lysidamvs Vt tibi, dum vivam, bene velim plus quam mihi.

Chalinvs Hodie hercle, opinor, hi conturbabunt pedes: 465 solet hic barbatos sane sectari senex.

Lysidamvs Vt ego hodie Casinam deosculabor, ut mihi bona multa faciam clam meam uxorem.

Chalinvs Attatae, nunc pol ego demum in rectam redii semitam. hic ipsus Casinam deperit. habeo viros. 470

Lysidamvs Iam hercle amplexari, iam osculari gestio.

Olympio Sine prius deduci. quid, malum, properas?

Lysidamvs Amo.

Olympio At non opinor fieri hoc posse hodie.

Lysidamvs Potest, siquidém cras censes te posse emitti manu.

Chalinvs Enim véro huc aures magis sunt adhibendae mihi: 475 iam ego uno in saltu lepide apros capiam duos.

Lysidamvs Apud hunc sodalem meum atque vicinum mihi locus est paratus: ei ego amorem omnem meum concredui; is mihi se locum dixit dare.

Olympio Quid eius uxor? ubi erit? 480

Olympio Astute.

Chalinvs Age modo, fabricamini, malo hercle vestro tam vorsuti vivitis.

Lysidamvs Scin quid nunc facias? 490

Olympio Loquere.

Lysidamvs Tene marsuppium, abi atque obsona, propera, sed lepide volo, molliculas escas, út ipsa mollicula est.

Olympio Licet.

Lysidamvs Emito sepiolas, lepadas, lolligunculas, hordeías.

Chalinvs Immo triticeías, si sapis.

Lysidamvs Soleas. 495

Chalinvs Qui quaeso potius quam sculponeas, quibus báttuatur tíbi os, senex nequissime?

Olympio Vin lingulacas?

Lysidamvs Quid opust, quando uxor domi est? ea lingulaca est nobis, nam numquam tacet.

Olympio In re praesenti ex copia piscaria consulere quid emam potero. 500

Lysidamvs Aéquom oras, abi. argento parci nolo, obsonato ampliter. nam mihi vicino hoc etiam convento est opus, ut quod mandavi curet.

Olympio Iamne abeo?

Lysidamvs Volo.—

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OLYMPIO Only let him come into the country; I’ll send the fellow back into the city to you with his porter’s knot 1 , as black as a collier.

STALINO So it ought to be.

OLYMPIO I’ll have that done and well taken care of.

STALINO I intended, if he had been at home, to send Chalinus to cater with you; that, even in his sadness, I might, in addition,inflict this misfortune upon our foe. 440

OLYMPIO How obsequious have I been found to you! A thing that you especially desired, that same have I put in your power; this day the object that you love shall be with you, unknown to your wife. 450

STALINO Hush! So may the Deities kindly bless me, I can hardly withhold my lips from kissing you on account of this, my own delight!

CHALINUS (apart.) What? Kiss him? What’s the meaning of this? What’s this delight of yours?

OLYMPIO Do you love me at all now?

STALINO Aye, by my faith, myself even less than you. May I embrace you?

OLYMPIO You may. (STALINO embraces him.)

STALINO How, when I touch you, I do seem to myself to be tasting honey!

CHALINUS (apart.) I really do think he intends to choke the bailiff. 455

OLYMPIO (pushing STALINO away.) Away with you, you lover; get off, with your too close acquaintanceship!

OLYMPIO How subservient have I proved to you to-day, how attentive to your pleasure!

STALINO How surely, so long as I live, will I prove more of a well-wisher to you than to my own self! How will I this day give full many a kiss to Casina! How will I, unknown to my wife, right pleasantly enjoy myself!

CHALINUS (apart.) Oho! Now, faith,at last I’ve got into the right track. It’s himself that’s dying for Casina. I’ve caught the fellows. 470

STALINO Even now, by my troth, am I longing to embrace her; even now to be kissing her.

OLYMPIO Do let her be brought out first from the house. Why the plague are you in such a hurry?

STALINO I’m in love.

OLYMPIO But I don’t think that this can possibly be managed to-day.

STALINO It can, if, indeed, you think that you can possibly receive your freedom to-morrow.

CHALINUS (apart.) Why, really, I must make still better use here of my ears; now, in one thicket, I shall be cleverly catching two boars. 475

STALINO (pointing to the house of ALCESIMUS.) At the house of this friend and neighbour of mine there’s a place provided; I have confided to him all my amorousness: he said that he would find me a room.

OLYMPIO What will his wife do? Where will she be? 480

OLYMPIO Cleverly!

CHALINUS (apart.) Only do proceed; contrive away. By my troth, to your own mischance are you so clever.

STALINO Do you know what you must do now? 490

OLYMPIO Tell me.

STALINO (giving him a purse.) Take this purse. Be off and buy some provisions: make haste. But I want it nicely done: delicate eatables, just as she herself is a delicate bit.

OLYMPIO Very well.

STALINO Buy some cuttle-fish, mussels, calamaries, barley-fish 4 .

CHALINUS (apart.) Aye, wheaten fish, if you know what you’re about.

STALINO Some sole-fish 5 . 495

Olympio

Sine modo rus veniat: ego remittam ad te virum

cum furca in urbem tamquam carbonarium.

Lysidamvs

Ita fieri oportet.

Olympio

Factum et curatum dabo.

Lysidamvs

Volui Chalinum, si domi esset, mittere
440

tecum obsonatum, ut etiam in maerore insuper

inimico nostro miseriam hanc adiungerem.

Chalinvs

Recessim cedam ad parietem, imitabor nepam;

captandust horum clanculum sermo mihi.

nam illorum me alter cruciat, alter macerat.
445

at candidatus cedit hic mastigia,

stimulorum loculi. protollo mortem mihi;

certum est, hunc Acheruntem praemittam prius.

Olympio

Vt tibi ego inventus sum obsequens. quod maxime

cupiebas, eius copiam feci tibi.
450

erit hodie tecum quod amas clam uxorem.

Lysidamvs

Tace.

ita me di bene ament, ut ego vix reprimo labra

ob istánc rem quin te deosculer, voluptas mea.

Chalinvs

Quid, deosculere? quae res? quae voluptas tua?

ecfodere hercle hic volt, credo, vesicam vilico.†
455

Olympio

Ecquid amas nunc me?

Lysidamvs

Immo edepol me quam te minus.

licetne amplecti te?

Chalinvs

Quid, amplecti?

Olympio

Licet.

Lysidamvs

Vt, quia te tango, mel mihi videor lingere.

Olympio

Vltro te, amator, apage te a dorso meo.

Chalinvs

Illuc est, illuc, quod hic hunc fecit vilicum:
460

eidem me pridem, cum ei advorsum veneram,

facere atriensem voluerat sub ianua.

Olympio

Vt tibi morigerus hodie, ut voluptati fui.

Lysidamvs

Vt tibi, dum vivam, bene velim plus quam mihi.

Chalinvs

Hodie hercle, opinor, hi conturbabunt pedes:
465

solet hic barbatos sane sectari senex.

Lysidamvs

Vt ego hodie Casinam deosculabor, ut mihi

bona multa faciam clam meam uxorem.

Chalinvs

Attatae,

nunc pol ego demum in rectam redii semitam.

hic ipsus Casinam deperit. habeo viros.
470

Lysidamvs

Iam hercle amplexari, iam osculari gestio.

Olympio

Sine prius deduci. quid, malum, properas?

Lysidamvs

Amo.

Olympio

At non opinor fieri hoc posse hodie.

Lysidamvs

Potest,

siquidém cras censes te posse emitti manu.

Chalinvs

Enim véro huc aures magis sunt adhibendae mihi:
475

iam ego uno in saltu lepide apros capiam duos.

Lysidamvs

Apud hunc sodalem meum atque vicinum mihi

locus est paratus: ei ego amorem omnem meum

concredui; is mihi se locum dixit dare.

Olympio

Quid eius uxor? ubi erit?
480

Olympio

Astute.

Chalinvs

Age modo, fabricamini,

malo hercle vestro tam vorsuti vivitis.

Lysidamvs

Scin quid nunc facias?
490

Olympio

Loquere.

Lysidamvs

Tene marsuppium,

abi atque obsona, propera, sed lepide volo,

molliculas escas, út ipsa mollicula est.

Olympio

Licet.

Lysidamvs

Emito sepiolas, lepadas, lolligunculas,

hordeías.

Chalinvs

Immo triticeías, si sapis.

Lysidamvs

Soleas.
495

Chalinvs

Qui quaeso potius quam sculponeas,

quibus báttuatur tíbi os, senex nequissime?

Olympio

Vin lingulacas?

Lysidamvs

Quid opust, quando uxor domi est?

ea lingulaca est nobis, nam numquam tacet.

Olympio

In re praesenti ex copia piscaria

consulere quid emam potero.
500

Lysidamvs

Aéquom oras, abi.

argento parci nolo, obsonato ampliter.

nam mihi vicino hoc etiam convento est opus,

ut quod mandavi curet.

Olympio

Iamne abeo?

Lysidamvs

Volo.—

OLYMPIO

Only let him come into the country; I’ll send the fellow back into the city to you with his porter’s knot¹, as black as a collier.

STALINO

So it ought to be.

OLYMPIO

I’ll have that done and well taken care of.

STALINO

I intended, if he had been at home, to send Chalinus to cater with you; that, even in his sadness, I might, in addition,inflict this misfortune upon our foe.
440

OLYMPIO

How obsequious have I been found to you! A thing that you especially

desired, that same have I put in your power; this day the object that you love shall be with you, unknown to your wife.
450

STALINO

Hush! So may the Deities kindly bless me, I can hardly withhold my lips from kissing you on account of this, my own delight!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

What? Kiss him? What’s the meaning of this? What’s this delight of yours?

OLYMPIO

Do you love me at all now?

STALINO

Aye, by my faith, myself even less than you. May I embrace you?

OLYMPIO

You may.

(STALINO embraces him.)

STALINO

How, when I touch you, I do seem to myself to be tasting honey!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

I really do think he intends to choke the bailiff.
455

OLYMPIO

(pushing STALINO away.)

Away with you, you lover; get off, with your too close acquaintanceship!

OLYMPIO

How subservient have I proved to you to-day, how attentive to your pleasure!

STALINO

How surely, so long as I live, will I prove more of a well-wisher to you than to my own self!

How will I this day give full many a kiss to Casina! How will I, unknown to my wife, right pleasantly enjoy myself!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Oho! Now, faith,at last I’ve got into the right track.

It’s himself that’s dying for Casina. I’ve caught the fellows.
470

STALINO

Even now, by my troth, am I longing to embrace her; even now to be kissing her.

OLYMPIO

Do let her be brought out first from the house. Why the plague are you in such a hurry?

STALINO

I’m in love.

OLYMPIO

But I don’t think that this can possibly be managed to-day.

STALINO

It can, if, indeed, you think that you can possibly receive your freedom to-morrow.

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Why, really, I must make still better use here of my ears; now, in one thicket, I shall be cleverly catching two boars.
475

STALINO

(pointing to the house of ALCESIMUS.)

At the house of this friend and neighbour of mine there’s a place provided; I have confided to him all my amorousness: he said that he would find me a room.

OLYMPIO

What will his wife do? Where will she be?
480

OLYMPIO

Cleverly!

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Only do proceed; contrive away. By my troth, to your own mischance are you so clever.

STALINO

Do you know what you must do now?
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OLYMPIO

Tell me.

STALINO

(giving him a purse.)

Take this purse. Be off and buy some provisions: make haste. But I want it nicely done: delicate eatables, just as she herself is a delicate bit.

OLYMPIO

Very well.

STALINO

Buy some cuttle-fish, mussels, calamaries, barley-fish⁴.

CHALINUS

(apart.)

Aye, wheaten fish, if you know what you’re about.

STALINO

Some sole-fish⁵.
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CHALINUS

(apart.)

Prithee, why those rather than soles of wood, with which your head may be banged, you most vile old fellow?

OLYMPIO

Should you like some tongue-fish⁶?

STALINO

What need is there, since my wife’s at home? She is our tongue-fish, for she’s never silent.