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Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (720b-742)

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This; how we are to manage[*].
CHRYSALUS
Where are your couches[*] laid out?
MNESILOCHUS
Why o you ask that?
CHRYSALUS
So the matter stands; I wish to be informed. You know not what I am about to do, nor what a great exploit I shall attempt.
MINES.
Give me your hand, and follow me close, to the door. Peep in.
(CHRYSALUS looks in at the door of the house of BACCHIS.)
CHRYSALUS
Hurra! ’Tis a very pretty place, this, and exactly as I could wish it to be.
(Re-enter PISTOCLERUS, with pen and tablets.)
PISTOCLERUS
The things that you ordered—what’s ordered for a good purpose is forthwith done by the obedient.
CHRYSALUS
What have you brought?
PISTOCLERUS
Everything that you bade me bring.
CHRYSALUS
(to MNESILOCHUS.)
Do you take the pen at once, and these tablets.
MNESILOCHUS
(taking them.)
What then?
CHRYSALUS
Write there what I shall bid you; for I wish you to write for this reason,
that your father may know the hand when he reads it.
Write now.
MNESILOCHUS
What shall I write?
CHRYSALUS
Health to your father, in your own language.
(MNESILOCHUS writes.)
PISTOCLERUS
Suppose he were to write disease and death, in preference, that would be much better.
CHRYSALUS
Don’t you interrupt us.
MNESILOCHUS
What you have ordered is now written on the wax.
CHRYSALUS
Tell me in what terms.
MNESILOCHUS
Mnesilochus sends health to his father.
CHRYSALUS
Write this, too, quickly:
My father, Chrysalus is always and everywhere talking at me, and in no measured terms, because I gave you up the gold, and because I did not cheat you of it.
(MNESILOCHUS writes.)
PISTOCLERUS
Stop till he has written it.
CHRYSALUS
It befits the hand of a lover to be active.
PISTOCLERUS
I’ faith, that hand is more active by far at lavishing than at writing.
MNESILOCHUS
Say on; that’s written down.
CHRYSALUS
Now, my dear father, do you henceforth be on your guard against him,
for he is forming knavish plans to deprive you of the gold, and has declared that he will have it beyond a doubt. Write legibly.
MNESILOCHUS
You only dictate.

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