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Cistellaria, or The Casket (663b-675)

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Ye Gods, I do adjure you by our trust in you!
(Opening the casket.)
LAMPADISCUS
Why do you call upon the Gods?
PHANOSTRATA
Save us!
LAMPADISCUS
What’s the matter?
PHANOSTRATA
These are the trinkets with which you exposed my little daughter to death.
LAMPADISCUS
Are you in your senses?
PHANOSTRATA
These certainly are.
LAMPADISCUS
Do you persist?
PHANOSTRATA
These are they.
LAMPADISCUS
If any other woman were to speak to me after that fashion, I should say she was drunk.
PHANOSTRATA
By heaven! I’m talking no nonsense.
But prithee, whence in the world did these come, or what Deity placed this before our door? As though
for a given purpose, at the very instant
sacred Hope comes to my aid?
671
(Enter HALISCA, at a distance, from the house of the FATHER of ALCESIMARCHUS.)
HALISCA(to herself.)
Unless the Gods give me some aid, I’m utterly undone; nor do I know whence I am to seek for aid. To such a degree does carelessness possess wretched me in mind, which I sadly fear may be lighting upon my own back, if my mistress knows that I’m so negligent as I really am.
The casket which I took and held in my hands here before the door, where it is I know not; except, as I fancy, it was dropt by me about this spot. (Looks about on the ground.) My good sirs (to the AUDIENCE), my kind Spectators, do give me information if any one has seen it, if any one has taken it away, or any one picked it up; and whether in this direction or that he has taken his departure?

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