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(SIMO, alone)
SIMO
I’ve touched this fellow handsomely, and cleverly has my servant managed his adversary. Now am I resolved to lie in ambush for Pseudolus
in a different manner to what’s done in other plays, where people lie in wait with goads or whips. Without revenge will I at once pay down the twenty minae which I promised if he should effect it. I’ll carry them to him of my own accord. This creature is very clever, very cunning, very artful. Pseudolus has surpassed the Trojan stratagem
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and Ulysses too.
1240
Now I’ll be off in-doors. I’ll take out the money; I’ll lie in ambush for Pseudolus.
1245
(Goes into his house.)
I’ve touched this fellow handsomely, and cleverly has my servant managed his adversary. Now am I resolved to lie in ambush for Pseudolus
in a different manner to what’s done in other plays, where people lie in wait with goads or whips. Without revenge will I at once pay down the twenty minae which I promised if he should effect it. I’ll carry them to him of my own accord. This creature is very clever, very cunning, very artful. Pseudolus has surpassed the Trojan stratagem
1
and Ulysses too.
1240
Now I’ll be off in-doors. I’ll take out the money; I’ll lie in ambush for Pseudolus.
1245
Pseudolus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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