PALAESTRIO
Now, do you listen, Pleusicles.
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PLEUSICLES
I am all attention to you.
PALAESTRIO
Take care of this. When the Captain comes home, do you remember not to call Philocomasium by her name.
PLEUSICLES
What am I to call her?
PALAESTRIO
Glycera.
PLEUSICLES
The same, you mean, that was agreed upon a little time since.
PALAESTRIO
Hush!—Be off.
PLEUSICLES
I’ll remember; but still I don’t know what use it is to keep it in my mind.
PALAESTRIO
But I will tell you, at the time, when occasion shall require. Meanwhile, be quiet; so that, bye and bye, when he too shall be acting his part
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, you may, on the instant, be minding your cue.
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PLEUSICLES
I’ll go in then.
PALAESTRIO
Go, and do take care steadily to follow my instructions.
(PLEUSICLES goes into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)
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PALAESTRIO
What mighty turmoils I create! What mighty engines I do set to work! This very day I shall take his mistress away from the Captain,
if my soldiers are only well drilled
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. But I’ll call him out.
(Goes to the door and calls.) Hallo! Sceledrus, if you are not busy, come out to the front of the house; I, Palaestrio, call you.
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Miles Gloriosus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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