Spectators, what’s to be done within, we’ll tell you here. This Casina will be discovered to be the daughter of this person next door Of this person next door : Schmieder suggests that Myrrhina has not hitherto seen Casina, but now, on hearing so much of her, enquires into her history, on which Chalinus explains how he begged her of the woman who was going to expose her, and Myrrhina then recognizes in her her own child, whom she had ordered to be exposed. This practice, especially with regard to female children, was by no means uncommon among the ancients, and even with the more respectable classes. We must remember, however, that in the Prologue it is stated that the servant who found her is ill in bed. , and she’ll be married to Euthynicus, our master’s son. Now it’s only fair that with your deserving hands you should give us deserved applause. He who does so, may he always keep his mistress without the knowledge of his wife. But he who doesn’t with his hands clap as loud as he can, in place of a mistress, may a he-goat, soused in bilge-water, be palmed off upon him Palmed off upon him : Warner, in his concluding Note to this Play, informs us that Machiavel had undoubtedly this Comedy of Plautus his eye when he wrote his Clinia. .