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Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (726-733)

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The things that you orderedwhats 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
Dont you interrupt us.

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