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Curculio, or The Forgery (35-67)

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No one forbids any person from going along the public road, so long as he doesn’t make a path through the field that’s fenced around; so long as you keep yourself away from the wife, the widow, the maiden, youthful age, and free-born children, love what you please.
PHAEDROMUS
This is the house of a Procurer.
PALINURUS
A curse befall it.
PHAEDROMUS
Why so?
PALINURUS
Because it serves in an infamous service.
PHAEDROMUS
You speak out.
PALINURUS
Be it so, most especially.
PHAEDROMUS
Once more, will you hold your tongue?
PALINURUS
You bade me speak out[*], I thought.
PHAEDROMUS
Then, now I forbid you. But, as I had begun to say, he has a young female slave—
PALINURUS
This Procurer, you mean, who’s living here?
PHAEDROMUS
You have hold of it exactly.
PALINURUS
The less shall I be in dread of its falling.
PHAEDROMUS
You are impertinent. He wishes to make her a courtesan, while she is desperately in love with me; whereas I don’t wish to have her upon loan.
PALINURUS
Why so?
PHAEDROMUS
Because I’m for having her as my own; I love her equally as well.
PALINURUS
Clandestine courtship is bad; ’tis utter ruin.
PHAEDROMUS
I’ troth, ’tis so as you say.
PALINURUS
Has she as yet submitted to the yoke of Venus?
PHAEDROMUS
For me she is as chaste as though she were my own sister, unless, indeed, she is any the more unchaste for some kissing.
PALINURUS
Always, do you understand, flame follows very close on smoke; with smoke, nothing can be burnt, with flame, it can.
He who wishes to eat the kernel[*] of the nut, first breaks the nut; he who wishes to seduce, opens the dance[*] with kisses.
PHAEDROMUS
But she is chaste, and never yet has bestowed her favours upon man.
PALINURUS
That I could believe[*], if any Procurer had any shame.
PHAEDROMUS
Well, but what think you of her? When she has any opportunity,
she steals away to me; when she has given me a kiss, she’s off again. This happens by reason of this, because this Procurer is lying a-bed ill in the Temple[*] of Aesculapius; that fellow is my torturer.
PALINURUS
How so?
PHAEDROMUS
At one time he asks me for thirty minae for her, at another for a great talent; and from him I cannot obtain any fair and just dealing.
PALINURUS
You are too exacting, in requiring that of him which no Procurer possesses.
PHAEDROMUS
Now, I’ve sent my Parasite hence to Caria [*], to ask for money on loan from my friend; if he doesn’t bring me this, which way to turn myself I know not.

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