<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="4"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="2"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="592" rend="align(indent)"> She doesn’t go: she says she shan’t go. Begone, and take back this message—she loves another person, and not him. Take yourself off from the house.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PARASITE</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="594" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> You’re too hasty. </l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="594b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> And would you know now hasty I am?</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="595">By my faith, your phiz isn’t far off from a mishap; so much are these teeth-crackers <stage>(looking at his fists)</stage> longing in my fists.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PARASITE</speaker><lb/><stage>(aside.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="597" rend="align(indent)">So far as I understand his words, ’tis a warning to me, lest he should knock my nut-crackers out of my jaws. <stage>(To PISTOCLERUS.)</stage> At your own peril, I’ll tell him this.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="600" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> What do you say? </l></sp><sp><speaker>PARASITE</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="600b" part="M" rend="align(indent)"> I’ll tell him that which you bade me.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="600c" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> Who are you? Tell me.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PARASITE</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="601b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> I’m the skill of his body<note resp="editor"><emph rend="italic" n="mentioned">Skin of his body</emph>:  <q rend="double"><foreign xml:lang="lat">Integumentum corporis</foreign>.</q> Literally, <q rend="double">the skin,</q> or <q rend="double">covering of the body.</q> This was probably a nickname for a body guard, or hanger-on.</note> </l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="602" rend="align(indent)"> He needs must be a scampish fellow, who has got so worthless a skin.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PARASITE</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="603" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> He’ll be coming here, swollen up with wrath.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PISTOCLERUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="603b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> I wish he may burst. </l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>