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Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (1104-1125b)

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For sure, some person, I know not who, seems to be talking near to me. But who’s this I see?
Really, ’tis the father of Mnesilochus.
NICOBULUS
Hah! I see a partner in affliction. Save you, Philoxenus!
PHILOXENUS
And you; whence are you betaking yourself?
NICOBULUS
From a place whence comes a wretched and a luckless mortal.
PHILOXENUS
Why, troth, I’m surely on the earth, the spot where it befits a wretched and a luckless mortal to be.
NICOBULUS
We now, as we are of like age, are meeting with similar fortunes.
PHILOXENUS
So it is. But as to yourself, what’s the matter with you?
NICOBULUS
I’ faith, mine’s the same mishap as your own.
PHILOXENUS
Does this misfortune in any way relate to your son?
NICOBULUS
Such is the fact.
PHILOXENUS
The same disease exists in my own breast.
NICOBULUS
Aye, and that very worthy fellow, Chrysalus, has been ruining my son, myself, and all my fortunes.
PHILOXENUS
Pray now, what is this mishap of yours about your son?
NICOBULUS
You shall know:
together with your own son he’s undone; both of them are keeping mistresses alike.
PHILOXENUS
How do you know?
NICOBULUS
I have seen them.
PHILOXENUS
Ah! wretch that I am! I’m ruined outright.
NICOBULUS
Why do we hesitate a moment to knock and to call them both hither out of doors.
PHILOXENUS
I don’t object.
NICOBULUS
(knocks at the door of the house of BACCHIS.)
Hallo there! Bacchis! Bid the door to be opened this instant, if you please, unless you had rather the door and the posts be knocked to bits with hatchets.
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(Enter FIRST BACCHIS and SECOND BACCHIS from the house.)
1st BACCHIS
Who is it that calls out my name with such a noise and tumult, and is knocking so hard at the door?
NICOBULUS
I and this person here.
(Pointing to PHILOXENUS.)
1st BACCHIS
Pray, what’s the matter now? Who has been driving these sheep[*] to us?
NICOBULUS
These most shocking hussies call us sheep.
2nd BACCHIS
Their shepherd’s asleep, as they come straying thus from the flock.
1st BACCHIS
But, i’ faith, they are not white; they both look dirty.
2nd BACCHIS
Because they have both been shorn just now.
PHILOXENUS
How they seem to be laughing at us.

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