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(Enter CURCULIO, with a ring, from the house of PHAEDROMUS.)
CURCULIO
I’ve heard that an ancient Poet
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wrote in a Tragedy, that two women are worse than one; such is the fact. But a more crafty woman than is this mistress of Phaedromus, I never saw or heard of, nor, i’ faith, can one be spoken of or imagined;
she, as soon as ever she saw that I had got this ring, asked me whence I got it.
Why do you ask that? said I.
Because I’ve need to know, said she. I said I wouldn’t tell her. To get it away, she seized hold of my hand with her teeth. With much ado I betook me out of doors, and made my escape. Away with this slut
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I’ve heard that an ancient Poet
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wrote in a Tragedy, that two women are worse than one; such is the fact. But a more crafty woman than is this mistress of Phaedromus, I never saw or heard of, nor, i’ faith, can one be spoken of or imagined;
she, as soon as ever she saw that I had got this ring, asked me whence I got it.
Why do you ask that? said I.
Because I’ve need to know, said she. I said I wouldn’t tell her. To get it away, she seized hold of my hand with her teeth. With much ado I betook me out of doors, and made my escape. Away with this slut
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Curculio. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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