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(PALAESTRIO alone.)
PALAESTRIO
And I’ll go home, too;
and I’ll conceal the fact that I am giving her my aid in seeking out the man, which fellow-servant of mine it was, that to-day was following the monkey. For it cannot be but in his conversation he must have made some one of the household acquainted about the lady of his master, how that he himself has seen her next door here toying with some stranger spark.
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I know the habit myself;
I can’t hold my tongue on that which I know alone. If I find out the person who saw it, I’ll plant against him all my mantelets
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and covered works. The material is prepared; ’tis a sure matter that I must take this person by force, and by thus besieging him. If so I don’t find the man, just like a hound I’ll go smelling about, even until I shall have traced out the fox by his track.
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But our door makes a noise: I’ll lower my voice; for here is the keeper of Philocomasium, my fellow-servant, coming out of doors.
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(Stands aside.)
And I’ll go home, too;
and I’ll conceal the fact that I am giving her my aid in seeking out the man, which fellow-servant of mine it was, that to-day was following the monkey. For it cannot be but in his conversation he must have made some one of the household acquainted about the lady of his master, how that he himself has seen her next door here toying with some stranger spark.
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I know the habit myself;
I can’t hold my tongue on that which I know alone. If I find out the person who saw it, I’ll plant against him all my mantelets
1
and covered works. The material is prepared; ’tis a sure matter that I must take this person by force, and by thus besieging him. If so I don’t find the man, just like a hound I’ll go smelling about, even until I shall have traced out the fox by his track.
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But our door makes a noise: I’ll lower my voice; for here is the keeper of Philocomasium, my fellow-servant, coming out of doors.
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Miles Gloriosus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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