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In this direction will I be on the watch for her,
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how soon the heifer may betake herself from the pasture this way towards her stall.
What now shall I do? The Captain gave me to her as her keeper. Now, if I make a discovery, I’m undone; if I am silent, still I am undone, if this should be discovered. What is there more abandoned or more daring than a woman? While I was upon the tiles, this woman betook herself out of doors from her dwelling. By my troth, ’twas a brazen act she did. If, now, the Captain were to know of this,
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i’ faith, I believe he would pull down the whole entire house next door, and me he would send to the gibbet.
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Whatever comes of it, i’ faith, I’ll hold my tongue rather than come to a bad end. I cannot keep effectual guard on a woman that puts herself up for sale.
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In this direction will I be on the watch for her,
1
how soon the heifer may betake herself from the pasture this way towards her stall.
What now shall I do? The Captain gave me to her as her keeper. Now, if I make a discovery, I’m undone; if I am silent, still I am undone, if this should be discovered. What is there more abandoned or more daring than a woman? While I was upon the tiles, this woman betook herself out of doors from her dwelling. By my troth, ’twas a brazen act she did. If, now, the Captain were to know of this,
305
i’ faith, I believe he would pull down the whole entire house next door, and me he would send to the gibbet.
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Whatever comes of it, i’ faith, I’ll hold my tongue rather than come to a bad end. I cannot keep effectual guard on a woman that puts herself up for sale.
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Miles Gloriosus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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