Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), 4.8

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1311 (Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN’S house.)

PALAESTRIO
(to PHILOCOMASIUM.)

Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?

PHILOCOMASIUM

What can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.

PALAESTRIO

See, there’s the man that has come from your mother and sister.

(pointing to PLEUSICLES.)

PHILOCOMASIUM

I see him.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Palaestrio, do you hear?

PALAESTRIO

What is your pleasure?

PYRGOPOLINICES

Aren’t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?

PLEUSICLES

Health to you, Philocomasium.
1315

PHILOCOMASIUM

And health to you.

PLEUSICLES

Your mother and sister bade me give their love to you.

PHILOCOMASIUM

Heaven prosper them.

PLEUSICLES

They beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother’s eyes had been well, she would have come¹ together with me.

PHILOCOMASIUM

I’ll go; although I do it with regret—duty compels me.

PLEUSICLES

You act wisely.

PYRGOPOLINICES

If she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead.
1320

PHILOCOMASIUM

I am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind.

(Pretends to cry.)

PYRGOPOLINICES

Don’t weep.

PHILOCOMASIUM

I can’t help it when I look upon you.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Be of good courage.

PHILOCOMASIUM

I know what pain it is to me.

PALAESTRIO

I really don’t wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant—as I look at him, weep because we are parting (pretends to cry), so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.

PHILOCOMASIUM

Prithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?

PYRGOPOLINICES

By all means

PHILOCOMASIUM
(embracing him.)

O my eyes! O my life!
1330

PALAESTRIO

Do hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall.

(He takes hold of her, and she pretends to faint.)

PYRGOPOLINICES

What means this?

PALAESTRIO

Because, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Run in and fetch some water.

PALAESTRIO

I want no water; but I had rather you would keep at a distance. Prithee, don’t you interfere till she comes to.

PYRGOPOLINICES
(observing PLEUSICLES, who is holding PHILOCOMASIUM in his arm.)

They have their heads too closely in contact between them;

I don’t like it; he is soldering his lips² to hers. What the plague are you about?
1335

PLEUSICLES

I was trying whether she was breathing or not.

PYRGOPOLINICES

You ought to have applied your ear then.

PLEUSICLES

If you had rather, I’ll let her go.

PYRGOPOLINICES

No, I don’t care; do you support her.

PALAESTRIO

To my misery, I’m quite distracted.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Go and bring here from in-doors all the things that I have given her.

PALAESTRIO

And even now, household God, do I salute thee before I depart;

my fellow-servants, both male and female, all farewell, and happy may you live; prithee, though absent, among yourselves bestow your blessings upon me as well.
1340

PYRGOPOLINICES

Come, Palaestrio, be of good courage.

PALAESTRIO

Alas! alas! I cannot but weep since from you I must depart.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Bear it with patience.

PHILOCOMASIUM
(feigning to recover.)

Ha! how’s this? What means it? Hail, O light!

PLEUSICLES

Are you recovered now?
1345

PHILOCOMASIUM

Prithee, what person am I embracing? I’m undone. Am I myself?

PLEUSICLES
(in a low voice.)

Fear not, my delight.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What means all this?

PALAESTRIO

Just now she swooned away here. I fear and dread that this at last may take place³ too openly.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What is that you say?

PALAESTRIO

I fear that some one may turn it to your discredit, while all these things are being carried after us through the city.

PYRGOPOLINICES

I have given away my own property, and not theirs. I care but little for other people. Be off then, go with the blessing of the Gods.

PALAESTRIO

’Tis for your sake I say it.

PYRGOPOLINICES

I believe you.

PALAESTRIO

And now farewell!

PYRGOPOLINICES

And heartily farewell to you!

PALAESTRIO
(to PLEUSICLES and PHILOCOMASIUM as they leave.)

Go you quickly on; I’ll overtake you directly; I wish to speak a few words with my master. (To PYRGOPOLINICES.) Although you have ever deemed others more faithful to yourself than me,

still do I owe you many thanks for all things; and if such were your feelings, I would rather be a slave to you by far than be the freedman of another.
1355

PYRGOPOLINICES

Be of good courage.

PALAESTRIO

Ah me! When it comes in my mind, how my manners must be changed, how womanish manners must be learnt, and the military ones forgotten!

PYRGOPOLINICES

Take care and be honest.
1360

PALAESTRIO

I can be so no longer; I have lost all inclination⁴.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Go, follow them; don’t linger.

PALAESTRIO

Fare you right well.

PYRGOPOLINICES

And heartily fare you well.

PALAESTRIO

Prithee, do remember me; if perchance I should happen to be made free, I’ll send the news to you; don’t you forsake me⁵.

PYRGOPOLINICES

That is not my habit.

PALAESTRIO

Consider every now and then how faithful I have been to you.

If you do that, then at last you’ll know who is honest towards you and who dishonest.
1365

PYRGOPOLINICES

I know it; I have often found that true, as well before as to-day in especial.

PALAESTRIO

Do you know it? Aye, and this day I’ll make you hereafter say still more how true it is.

PYRGOPOLINICES

I can hardly refrain from bidding you to stay.

PALAESTRIO

Take you care how⁶ you do that. They may say that you are a liar and not truthful, that you have no honor;

they may say that no one of your slaves is trustworthy except my-self. If, indeed, I thought you could do it with honor, I should advise you. But it cannot be; take care how you do so.
1370

PYRGOPOLINICES

Be off;

I’ll be content then, whatever happens.

PALAESTRIO

Then, fare you well.

PYRGOPOLINICES

’Twere better you should go with a good heart.

PALAESTRIO

Still, once more, farewell.

(Exit.)

PYRGOPOLINICES

Before this affair, I had always thought that he was a most rascally servant;

still, I find that he is faithful to me. When I consider with myself, I have done unwisely in parting with him. I’ll go hence at once now to my love here: the door, too, I perceive, makes a noise there.
1375

Miles Gloriosus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.

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Current edition Perseus

Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (English) (Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, Henry Thomas, translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.)

Editions (1)

Miles Gloriosus Perseus (Plautus. Plauti Comoediae, Volume 2. Leo, Friedrich, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1896.) — 4.8 focus

1311

Palaestrio

Quid modi flendó quaeso hodie fácies?

Philocomasivm

Quid ego ní fleam?

ubi pulcherrume egi aetatem, ábeo.

Palaestrio

Em hominem tibi,

qui a matre et sorore venit.

Philocomasivm

Video.

Pyrgopolynices

Audin, Palaestrio?

Palaestrio

Quid vis?

Pyrgopolynices

Quin tu iubes ecferri ómnia quae isti dedi?

Plevsicles

Philocomasium, salve.
1315

Philocomasivm

Et tu salve.

Plevsicles

Materque et soror

tibi salutem me iusserunt dicere.

Philocomasivm

Salvae sient.

Plevsicles

Orant te, ut eas, ventus operam dum dat, ut velum explicent;

nam matri oculi si valerent, mecum venissent simul.

Philocomasivm

Ibo; quamquam invita facio, impietas sit nisi eam.

Plevsicles

Sapis.

Pyrgopolynices

Si non mecum aetatem egisset, hodie stulta viveret.
1320

Philocomasivm

Istuc crucior, a viro me tali abalienarier,

nam tu quemvis potis es facere ut afluat facetiis;

et quia tecum eram, propterea ánimo eram ferocior:

eam nobilitatem amittendam video.

Pyrgopolynices

Ne fle.

Philocomasivm

Non queo,

quom te video.
1325

Pyrgopolynices

Habe bonum animum.

Philocomasivm

Scio ego quid doleat mihi.

Palaestrio

Nam nil miror, si libenter, Philocomasium, híc eras,

si forma huius, mores, virtus, animum attinuere hic tuom,

quóm ego servos quando aspicio hunc, lacrumo quia diiungimur.

Philocomasivm

Obsecro licet complecti prius quam proficisco?

Pyrgopolynices

Licet.

Philocomasivm

O mi ócule, o mi ánime.
1330

Palaestrio

Obsecro, tene mulierem,

ne adfligatur.

Pyrgopolynices

Quid istuc quaesost?

Palaestrio

Quia abs te abit, animo male

factum est huic repente miserae.

Pyrgopolynices

Curre intro atque ecferto aquam.

Palaestrio

Nihil aquam moror, quiescat malo. ne interveneris,

quaeso, dum resipiscit.

Pyrgopolynices

Capita inter se nimis nexa hisce habent.

non placet. labra ab labellis aufer, nauta, cave malo.
1335

Plevsicles

Temptabam spiraret an non.

Pyrgopolynices

Aurem admotam oportuit.

Plevsicles

Si magis vís, eam omittam.

Pyrgopolynices

Nolo, retine.

Plevsicles

At ultro misero.

Pyrgopolynices

Exite atque ecferte huc intus omnia quae isti dedi.

Palaestrio

Etiam nunc saluto te, Lar familiaris, prius quam eo.

conservi conservaeque omnis, bene valete et vivite,
1340

bene quaeso inter vos dicatis mi med absenti tamen.

Pyrgopolynices

Age, Palaestrio, bono animo es.

Palaestrio

Eheu, nequeo quin fleam,

quom abs te abeám.

Pyrgopolynices

Fer aequo ánimo.

Palaestrio

Scio ego quid doleat mihi.

Philocomasivm

Sed quid hoc? quae res? quid video? lux, salve

Plevsicles

Iam resipisti?
1345

Philocomasivm

Obsecro, quem amplexa sum

hominem? perii. sumne ego apud me?

Plevsicles

Ne time, voluptas mea.

Pyrgopolynices

Quid istuc est negoti?

Palaestrio

Animus hanc modo hic reliquerat.

† metuoque ut timeo, ne hoc tandem propalam fiat nimis.

Pyrgopolynices

Quid id est?

Palaestrio

Nos secundum ferri nunc per urbem haec omnia,

ne quis tibi hoc vítio vortat.
1350

Pyrgopolynices

Mea, non illorum dedi:

parvi ego illos fácio. agite, íte cum dis benevolentibus.

Palaestrio

Tua ego hoc causa dico.

Pyrgopolynices

Credo.

Palaestrio

Iam vale.

Pyrgopolynices

Et tu bene vale.

Palaestrio

Ite cito, iam ego adsequar vos: cúm ero pauca volo loqui. —

quamquam alios fideliores semper habuisti tibi

quam me, tamen tibi habeo magnam gratiam rerum omnium;
1355

et, si íta sententia esset, tibi servire malui

multo, quám alii libertus esse.

Pyrgopolynices

Habe bonum animum.

Palaestrio

Eheu, quom venit mi in mentem, ut mores mutandi sient,

muliebris mores discendi, obliscendi stratiotici.

Pyrgopolynices

Fac sis frugi.
1360

Palaestrio

Iam non possum, amisi omnem lubidinem.

Pyrgopolynices

I, sequere illos, ne morere.

Palaestrio

Bene vale.

Pyrgopolynices

Et tu bene vale.

Palaestrio

Quaeso memineris, si forte liber fieri occeperim

(mittam nuntium ad te), ne me deseras.

Pyrgopolynices

Non est meum.

Palaestrio

Cogitato identidem, tibi quam fidelis fuerim.

si id facies, tum demum scibis, tibi qui bonus sit, qui malus.
1365

Pyrgopolynices

Scio et perspexi saepe.

Palaestrio

Verum cum antehac, hodie maxume

scies: immo hodie me tuom factum faxo post dices magis.

Pyrgopolynices

Vix reprimor quin te manere iubeam.

Palaestrio

Cave istuc feceris:

dicent te mendacem nec verum esse, fide nulla esse te,

dicent servorum praeter me esse hic fidelem neminem.
1370

nam si honeste censeam te facere posse, suadeam;

verum non potest. cave fáxis.

Pyrgopolynices

Abi iam.

Palaestrio

Patiar quidquid est.

Pyrgopolynices

Bene vale igitur.

Palaestrio

Ire meliust strenue. —

Pyrgopolynices

Etiam nunc vale.

ante hoc factum hunc sum arbitratus semper servom pessumum:

eum fidelem mi esse invenio. cum egomet mecum cogito,
1375

stulte feci qui hunc amisi. íbo hinc intro nunciam

ad amores meos. sed, sensi, hinc sonitum fecerunt foris.

Notes on the current edition

Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain

1. She would have come: Thornton justly observes that this excuse for the pretended mother not making her appearance is fair enough, but there is no reason alleged why the sister should not come, except that we may suppose that she stays to nurse and comfort her sick parent.

2. He is soldering his lips: Ferruminat is a strong expression here; it literally means to weld iron with iron, hammering it in a red-hot state

3. May take place: Palaestrio cannot help exclaiming against the indiscreet conduct of the lovers. The Captain overhears him, and asks him what is the matter. He adroitly turns it off, by saying, that if thus openly — the goods and furniture are carried through the city, he very much fears that his, master will be censured for his extreme prodigality.

4. Lost all inclination: A pun is thought to be intended here on the word lubidnem, but of so wretched a nature that it is not worth any further allusion to it.

5. don’t you forsake me: He hypocritically entreats his master not to desert him in need, should he be made free, and be thereby thrown entirely upon his own resources.

6. Take you care how: There is considerable drollery in his anxiety lest his master should suddenly change his mind and refuse to let him go. His situation would, indeed, under such circumstances have proved an unfortunate one.

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PALAESTRIO (to PHILOCOMASIUM.) Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?

PHILOCOMASIUM What can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.

PALAESTRIO See, there’s the man that has come from your mother and sister. (pointing to PLEUSICLES.)

PHILOCOMASIUM I see him.

PYRGOPOLINICES Palaestrio, do you hear?

PALAESTRIO What is your pleasure?

PYRGOPOLINICES Aren’t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?

PLEUSICLES Health to you, Philocomasium. 1315

PHILOCOMASIUM And health to you.

PLEUSICLES Your mother and sister bade me give their love to you.

PHILOCOMASIUM Heaven prosper them.

PLEUSICLES They beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother’s eyes had been well, she would have come 1 together with me.

PHILOCOMASIUM I’ll go; although I do it with regret—duty compels me.

PLEUSICLES You act wisely.

PYRGOPOLINICES If she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead. 1320

PHILOCOMASIUM I am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind. (Pretends to cry.)

PYRGOPOLINICES Don’t weep.

PHILOCOMASIUM I can’t help it when I look upon you.

PYRGOPOLINICES Be of good courage.

PHILOCOMASIUM I know what pain it is to me.

PALAESTRIO I really don’t wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant—as I look at him, weep because we are parting (pretends to cry), so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.

PHILOCOMASIUM Prithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?

PYRGOPOLINICES By all means

PHILOCOMASIUM (embracing him.) O my eyes! O my life! 1330

PALAESTRIO Do hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall. (He takes hold of her, and she pretends to faint.)

PYRGOPOLINICES What means this?

PALAESTRIO Because, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.

PYRGOPOLINICES Run in and fetch some water.

PALAESTRIO I want no water; but I had rather you would keep at a distance. Prithee, don’t you interfere till she comes to.

PYRGOPOLINICES (observing PLEUSICLES, who is holding PHILOCOMASIUM in his arm.) They have their heads too closely in contact between them; I don’t like it; he is soldering his lips 2 to hers. What the plague are you about? 1335

PLEUSICLES I was trying whether she was breathing or not.

PYRGOPOLINICES You ought to have applied your ear then.

PLEUSICLES If you had rather, I’ll let her go.

PYRGOPOLINICES No, I don’t care; do you support her.

PALAESTRIO To my misery, I’m quite distracted.

PYRGOPOLINICES Go and bring here from in-doors all the things that I have given her.

PALAESTRIO And even now, household God, do I salute thee before I depart; my fellow-servants, both male and female, all farewell, and happy may you live; prithee, though absent, among yourselves bestow your blessings upon me as well. 1340

PYRGOPOLINICES Come, Palaestrio, be of good courage.

PALAESTRIO Alas! alas! I cannot but weep since from you I must depart.

PYRGOPOLINICES Bear it with patience.

PHILOCOMASIUM (feigning to recover.) Ha! how’s this? What means it? Hail, O light!

PLEUSICLES Are you recovered now? 1345

PHILOCOMASIUM Prithee, what person am I embracing? I’m undone. Am I myself?

PLEUSICLES (in a low voice.) Fear not, my delight.

PYRGOPOLINICES What means all this?

PALAESTRIO Just now she swooned away here. I fear and dread that this at last may take place 3 too openly.

PYRGOPOLINICES What is that you say?

PALAESTRIO I fear that some one may turn it to your discredit, while all these things are being carried after us through the city.

PYRGOPOLINICES I have given away my own property, and not theirs. I care but little for other people. Be off then, go with the blessing of the Gods.

PALAESTRIO ’Tis for your sake I say it.

PYRGOPOLINICES I believe you.

PALAESTRIO And now farewell!

PYRGOPOLINICES And heartily farewell to you!

PYRGOPOLINICES Be of good courage.

PALAESTRIO Ah me! When it comes in my mind, how my manners must be changed, how womanish manners must be learnt, and the military ones forgotten!

PYRGOPOLINICES Take care and be honest. 1360

PALAESTRIO I can be so no longer; I have lost all inclination 4 .

PYRGOPOLINICES Go, follow them; don’t linger.

PALAESTRIO Fare you right well.

PYRGOPOLINICES And heartily fare you well.

PALAESTRIO Prithee, do remember me; if perchance I should happen to be made free, I’ll send the news to you; don’t you forsake me 5 .

PYRGOPOLINICES That is not my habit.

PALAESTRIO Consider every now and then how faithful I have been to you. If you do that, then at last you’ll know who is honest towards you and who dishonest. 1365

PYRGOPOLINICES I know it; I have often found that true, as well before as to-day in especial.

PALAESTRIO Do you know it? Aye, and this day I’ll make you hereafter say still more how true it is.

PYRGOPOLINICES I can hardly refrain from bidding you to stay.

PYRGOPOLINICES Be off; I’ll be content then, whatever happens.

PALAESTRIO Then, fare you well.

PYRGOPOLINICES ’Twere better you should go with a good heart.

PALAESTRIO Still, once more, farewell. (Exit.)

Current edition Perseus

Palaestrio Quid modi flendó quaeso hodie fácies?

Philocomasivm Quid ego ní fleam? ubi pulcherrume egi aetatem, ábeo.

Palaestrio Em hominem tibi, qui a matre et sorore venit.

Philocomasivm Video.

Pyrgopolynices Audin, Palaestrio?

Palaestrio Quid vis?

Pyrgopolynices Quin tu iubes ecferri ómnia quae isti dedi?

PALAESTRIO
(to PHILOCOMASIUM.)

Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?

PHILOCOMASIUM

What can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.

PALAESTRIO

See, there’s the man that has come from your mother and sister.

(pointing to PLEUSICLES.)

PHILOCOMASIUM

I see him.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Palaestrio, do you hear?

PALAESTRIO

What is your pleasure?

PYRGOPOLINICES

Aren’t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?

PLEUSICLES

Health to you, Philocomasium.
1315

PHILOCOMASIUM

And health to you.

PLEUSICLES

Your mother and sister bade me give their love to you.

PHILOCOMASIUM

Heaven prosper them.

PLEUSICLES

They beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother’s eyes had been well, she would have come¹ together with me.

PHILOCOMASIUM

I’ll go; although I do it with regret—duty compels me.

PLEUSICLES

You act wisely.

PYRGOPOLINICES

If she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead.
1320

PHILOCOMASIUM

I am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind.

(Pretends to cry.)

PYRGOPOLINICES

Don’t weep.

PHILOCOMASIUM

I can’t help it when I look upon you.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Be of good courage.

PHILOCOMASIUM

I know what pain it is to me.

PALAESTRIO

I really don’t wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant—as I look at him, weep because we are parting (pretends to cry), so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.

PHILOCOMASIUM

Prithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?

PYRGOPOLINICES

By all means

PHILOCOMASIUM
(embracing him.)

O my eyes! O my life!
1330

PALAESTRIO

Do hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall.

(He takes hold of her, and she pretends to faint.)

PYRGOPOLINICES

What means this?

PALAESTRIO

Because, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Run in and fetch some water.

PALAESTRIO

I want no water; but I had rather you would keep at a distance. Prithee, don’t you interfere till she comes to.

PYRGOPOLINICES
(observing PLEUSICLES, who is holding PHILOCOMASIUM in his arm.)

They have their heads too closely in contact between them;

I don’t like it; he is soldering his lips² to hers. What the plague are you about?
1335

PLEUSICLES

I was trying whether she was breathing or not.

PYRGOPOLINICES

You ought to have applied your ear then.

PLEUSICLES

If you had rather, I’ll let her go.

PYRGOPOLINICES

No, I don’t care; do you support her.

PALAESTRIO

To my misery, I’m quite distracted.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Go and bring here from in-doors all the things that I have given her.

PALAESTRIO

And even now, household God, do I salute thee before I depart;

my fellow-servants, both male and female, all farewell, and happy may you live; prithee, though absent, among yourselves bestow your blessings upon me as well.
1340

PYRGOPOLINICES

Come, Palaestrio, be of good courage.

PALAESTRIO

Alas! alas! I cannot but weep since from you I must depart.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Bear it with patience.

PHILOCOMASIUM
(feigning to recover.)

Ha! how’s this? What means it? Hail, O light!

PLEUSICLES

Are you recovered now?
1345

PHILOCOMASIUM

Prithee, what person am I embracing? I’m undone. Am I myself?

PLEUSICLES
(in a low voice.)

Fear not, my delight.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What means all this?

PALAESTRIO

Just now she swooned away here. I fear and dread that this at last may take place³ too openly.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What is that you say?

PALAESTRIO

I fear that some one may turn it to your discredit, while all these things are being carried after us through the city.

PYRGOPOLINICES

I have given away my own property, and not theirs. I care but little for other people. Be off then, go with the blessing of the Gods.

PALAESTRIO

’Tis for your sake I say it.

PYRGOPOLINICES

I believe you.

PALAESTRIO

And now farewell!

PYRGOPOLINICES

And heartily farewell to you!

PYRGOPOLINICES

Be of good courage.

PALAESTRIO

Ah me! When it comes in my mind, how my manners must be changed, how womanish manners must be learnt, and the military ones forgotten!

PYRGOPOLINICES

Take care and be honest.
1360

PALAESTRIO

I can be so no longer; I have lost all inclination⁴.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Go, follow them; don’t linger.

PALAESTRIO

Fare you right well.

PYRGOPOLINICES

And heartily fare you well.

PALAESTRIO

Prithee, do remember me; if perchance I should happen to be made free, I’ll send the news to you; don’t you forsake me⁵.

PYRGOPOLINICES

That is not my habit.

PALAESTRIO

Consider every now and then how faithful I have been to you.

If you do that, then at last you’ll know who is honest towards you and who dishonest.
1365

PYRGOPOLINICES

I know it; I have often found that true, as well before as to-day in especial.

PALAESTRIO

Do you know it? Aye, and this day I’ll make you hereafter say still more how true it is.

PYRGOPOLINICES

I can hardly refrain from bidding you to stay.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Be off;

I’ll be content then, whatever happens.

PALAESTRIO

Then, fare you well.

PYRGOPOLINICES

’Twere better you should go with a good heart.

PALAESTRIO

Still, once more, farewell.

(Exit.)

Palaestrio

Quid modi flendó quaeso hodie fácies?

Philocomasivm

Quid ego ní fleam?

ubi pulcherrume egi aetatem, ábeo.

Palaestrio

Em hominem tibi,

qui a matre et sorore venit.

Philocomasivm

Video.

Pyrgopolynices

Audin, Palaestrio?

Palaestrio

Quid vis?

Pyrgopolynices

Quin tu iubes ecferri ómnia quae isti dedi?

Plevsicles

Philocomasium, salve.
1315

Philocomasivm

Et tu salve.

Plevsicles

Materque et soror

tibi salutem me iusserunt dicere.