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(The PIPER stops playing while he drinks the water.)
SAGARINUS
Take this, you; toss it off. The drink didn’t please him just now; now at last he takes it with less difficulty. Take it, you.
(To STEPHANIUM.) In the meantime, apple of my eye, give me a kiss while he’s drinking.
Take this, you; toss it off. The drink didn’t please him just now; now at last he takes it with less difficulty. Take it, you.
(To STEPHANIUM.) In the meantime, apple of my eye, give me a kiss while he’s drinking.
STEPHANIUM
Why, it’s the way of a common strumpet, for a damsel to give a kiss standing to her sweetheart as he stands.
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(She turns away, while he tries to kiss her.)
Why, it’s the way of a common strumpet, for a damsel to give a kiss standing to her sweetheart as he stands.
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STICHUS
Bravo! bravo! that’s the way it’s given to a thief
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Bravo! bravo! that’s the way it’s given to a thief
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SAGARINUS
Come, blow out your cheeks now; something in the amorous way
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at once. Give us a new tune in return for the old wine.
Come, blow out your cheeks now; something in the amorous way
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at once. Give us a new tune in return for the old wine.
Stichus. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1912.
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