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(Enter DAEMONES, from his cottage.
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DAEMONES
(to himself.)
’Twas rightly done, and it is a pleasure this day for me to have given aid to these young women; I have now found some dependants, and both of them of comely looks and youthful age.
But my plaguy wife is watching me in all ways, lest I should be giving any hint to the young women. But I wonder what in the world my servant Gripus is about, who went last night to the sea to fish. Troth, he had done wiser if he had slept at home;
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for now he throws away both his pains and his nets, seeing what a storm there now is and was last night. I’ll thoroughly cook upon my fingers what he has caught to-day; so violently do I see the ocean heaving.
(A bell rings.) But my wife’s calling me to breakfast; I’ll return home.
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She’ll now be filling my ears with her silly prating.
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(Goes into the cottage.)
’Twas rightly done, and it is a pleasure this day for me to have given aid to these young women; I have now found some dependants, and both of them of comely looks and youthful age.
But my plaguy wife is watching me in all ways, lest I should be giving any hint to the young women. But I wonder what in the world my servant Gripus is about, who went last night to the sea to fish. Troth, he had done wiser if he had slept at home;
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for now he throws away both his pains and his nets, seeing what a storm there now is and was last night. I’ll thoroughly cook upon my fingers what he has caught to-day; so violently do I see the ocean heaving.
(A bell rings.) But my wife’s calling me to breakfast; I’ll return home.
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She’ll now be filling my ears with her silly prating.
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Rudens. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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