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Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (690-720)

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Nay, not to punish you, or to blame you at all on account of this business. And with some difficulty I’ve prevailed. Now, Chrysalus, this must be your care.
CHRYSALUS
What do you wish should be my care?
MNESILOCHUS
That once again you should make a second inroad upon the old gentleman. Contrive, devise, invent whatever you please; frame your plans[*], so that this day you may cleverly deceive the old man unawares, and carry off the gold.
CHRYSALUS
It scarcely seems possible to be done.
MNESILOCHUS
Set about it, and you’ll easily effect it.
CHRYSALUS
How the plague easily, for me, whom he has this moment caught out in a lie? Should I entreat him not to believe me at all, he would not venture even to believe me in that.
MNESILOCHUS
Aye, and if you were to hear what things he said about you in my presence.
CHRYSALUS
What did he say?
MNESILOCHUS
That if you were to say that this sun was the sun,
he would believe it was the moon, and that that is the night which is now the day.
CHRYSALUS
By my troth, I’ll bamboozle the old chap right well this very day, so that he shan’t have said that for nothing.
PISTOCLERUS
Now, what would you have us do?
CHRYSALUS
Why, nothing, except that I beg you’ll still love on. As for the rest, ask of me as much gold as you please; I’ll find it you. Of what use is it for me to have the name of Chrysalus[*], unless I give proofs by fact?
But now, tell me, Mnesilochus, how much gold is requisite for you.
MNESILOCHUS
There’s occasion for two hundred pieces at once, to pay the Captain for Bacchis.
CHRYSALUS
I’ll find it you.
MNESILOCHUS
Then we have need of some for current expenses.
CHRYSALUS
Aye, aye, I wish us to do each thing deliberately; when I’ve accomplished the one, then I’ll set about the other. First, for the two hundred pieces, I shall direct my engine of war against the old gentleman.
If with that engine I batter down the tower and the outworks, straight at the gate that instant I’ll attack the old town and the new one; if I take it, then carry to your friends the gold in baskets, just as your heart wishes.
PISTOCLERUS
Our hearts are with you, Chrysalus.
CHRYSALUS
Now, do you go in-doors to Bacchis, Pistoclerus, and quickly bring out—
PISTOCLERUS
What?
CHRYSALUS
A pen, some wax[*], tablets, and some cord.
PISTOCLERUS
I’ll have them here this instant.
(Goes into the house.)
MNESILOCHUS
What now are you about to do? Do tell me that.
CHRYSALUS
Let a breakfast be prepared; there will be you two, and your mistress will make a third with you.
MNESILOCHUS
Just as you say.
CHRYSALUS
Pistoclerus has no mistress?
MNESILOCHUS
O yes, she’s here; he’s in love with the one sister, I with the other, both of the name of Bacchis.
CHRYSALUS
What were you going to say?

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