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Amphitryon, or Jupiter in Disguise (344-365)

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Do you really say so?
SOSIA
I really do say so.
MERCURY
Whip-scoundrel[*]!
SOSIA
Now you are telling a lie.
MERCURY
But I’ll soon make you own that I’m telling the truth.
SOSIA
What necessity is there for it?
MERCURY
Can I know whence you have set out, whose you are, or why you are come?
SOSIA
(pointing.)
This way I’m going, and I’m the servant of my master. Are you any the wiser now?
MERCURY
I’ll this day make you be holding that foul tongue of yours.
SOSIA
You can’t; it is kept pure [*] and becomingly.
MERCURY
Do you persist in chattering?
What business now have you at this house?
(Points to the house.)
SOSIA
Aye, and what business have you?
MERCURY
King Creon always sets a watch every night.
SOSIA
He does right; because we were abroad, he has been protecting our house. But however, do go in now, and say that some of the family servants have arrived.
MERCURY
How far you are one of the family servants I don’t know. But unless you are off from here this instant,
family servant as you are, I’ll make you to be received in no familiar style.
SOSIA
Here, I say, I live, and of these people I am the servant.
MERCURY
But do you understand how it is? Unless you are off, I’ll make you to be exalted [*] this day.
SOSIA
In what way, pray?
MERCURY
You shall be carried off, you shan’t walk away, if I take up a stick.
SOSIA
But I declare that I am one of the domestics of this family.
MERCURY
Consider, will you, how soon you want a drubbing, unless you are off from here this instant.
SOSIA
Do you want, as I arrive from foreign parts, to drive me from my home?
MERCURY
Is this your home?
SOSIA
It is so, I say.
MERCURY
Who is your master, then?
SOSIA
Amphitryon, who is now the general of the Theban forces, to whom Alcmena is married.
MERCURY
How say you? What’s your name?
SOSIA
The Thebans call me Sosia, the son of my father Davus.

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