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Cistellaria, or The Casket (117-130)

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Mother, do you wish anything of me, before I go indoors? Upon my faith, to me she does seem to be in love.
A PROCURESS
For this reason, then, it is, that I’m repeatedly dinning it into your ears, not to be in love with any man. Go in-doors.
GYMNASIUM
Do you wish anything of me?
A PROCURESS
That you may fare well.
GYMNASIUM
Fare you well.
(GYMNASIUM goes into the house of SILENTIUM.)
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(The PROCURESS, alone.)
A PROCURESS
(to the AUDIENCE.) It’s the same fault with myself as with a great part of us women who are following this calling; who, as soon as ever we have got our load of food, are forthwith full of talk; more than is enough do we say.
Why, myself now, inasmuch as I’m filled to my heart’s content, and because I’ve charged myself quite full of the choicest of wine, it pleases me to use my tongue more at freedom; to my misfortune I can’t keep silent on that which it were necessary to be silent upon.
But once upon a time, that girl, who has gone hence in tears, from a lane I carried off a little child exposed.
There is here a certain youth, of the highest rank;
his father, of a very high family, is living at Sicyon[*];

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