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(Enter MYSIS from the house of GLYCERIUM.)
(Stands apart.)
MYSIS
(speaking at the door to Archylis within.)
I’ve heard you already, Archylis; you request Lesbia to be fetched. Really, upon my faith, she is a wine-bibbing
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and a rash woman,
and not sufficiently trustworthy for you to commit to her care a female at her first delivery; is she still to be brought?
(She receives an answer from within, and comes forward.) Do look at the inconsiderateness of the old woman; because she is her pot-companion. Ye Gods, I do entreat you, give her ease in her delivery, and to that woman an opportunity of making her mistakes elsewhere in preference. But why do I see Pamphilus so out of spirits? I fear what it may be.
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I’ll wait, that I may know whether this sorrow portends any disaster.
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(Stands apart.)I’ve heard you already, Archylis; you request Lesbia to be fetched. Really, upon my faith, she is a wine-bibbing
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and a rash woman,
and not sufficiently trustworthy for you to commit to her care a female at her first delivery; is she still to be brought?
(She receives an answer from within, and comes forward.) Do look at the inconsiderateness of the old woman; because she is her pot-companion. Ye Gods, I do entreat you, give her ease in her delivery, and to that woman an opportunity of making her mistakes elsewhere in preference. But why do I see Pamphilus so out of spirits? I fear what it may be.
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I’ll wait, that I may know whether this sorrow portends any disaster.
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Andria. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). Ney York. 1874.
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