That beginning now about the kiss doesn’t please me.AMPHITRYONGo on telling it. ALCMENAThen you bathed.AMPHITRYONWhat, after I bathed?ALCMENAYou took your place at table.SOSIABravo, capital! Now make further enquiry.AMPHITRYON(to SOSIA.)Don’t you interrupt. (To ALCMENA.) Go on telling me. ALCMENAThe dinner was served; you dined with me; I reclined together with you at the repast.AMPHITRYONWhat, on the same couch? ALCMENAOn the same.SOSIAOh dear, I don’t like this banquet.AMPHITRYONNow do let her give her proofs. (To ALCMENA.) What, after we had dined?ALCMENAYou said that you were inclined to go to sleep; the table was removed; thence we went to bed.AMPHITRYONWhere did you lie?ALCMENAIn the chamber, in the same bed together with your. self. AMPHITRYONYou have proved my undoing.SOSIAWhat’s the matter with you?AMPHITRYONThis very moment has she sent me to my grave. ALCMENAHow so, pray? AMPHITRYONDon’t address me.SOSIAWhat’s the matter with you?AMPHITRYONTo my sorrow I’m undone, since, in my absence from here, dishonor has befallen her chastity.ALCMENAIn heaven’s name, my lord, why, I beseech you, do I hear this from you? AMPHITRYONI, your lord? False one, don’t call me by a false name.SOSIA(aside.)’Tis an odd matter ’Tis an odd matter: Thornton says, on this passage, The ambiguity of Sosia’s pun in this place depends on the double signification of vir, which means a man and a husband. Poor as it is, it answers very well in the English word lord. this, if indeed he has been made into my lady from my lord.ALCMENAWhat have I done, by reason of which these expressions are uttered to me?AMPHITRYONYou yourself proclaim your own doings; do you enquire of me in what you have offended?ALCMENAIn what have I offended you, if I have been with you to whom I am married?AMPHITRYONYou, been with me? What is there of greater effrontery than this impudent woman? At least, if you were wanting in modesty of your own, you might have borrowed it.ALCMENAThat criminality which you lay to my charge befits not my family. If you try to catch me in incontinence, you cannot convict me.