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Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (149b-176b)

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— And very pleasant fellow.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Go on.
PENICULUS
I’ faith, I really can’t go on, unless I know for what reason. You’ve had a fall-out with your wife; on that ground am I the more strongly on my guard[*] against you.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
While you are interrupting me, you are delaying yourself.
PENICULUS
Knock out my only eye[*], Menaechmus, if I speak one word but what you bid me.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
⋯ where, unknown to my wife, we will erect the funeral pile ⋯ and let us consume this day[*] upon it.
PENICULUS
Well, come then, since you request what’s fair, how soon am I to set fire to the pile?
Why really, the day’s half dead already down to its navel[*].
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Come this way from the door.
PENICULUS
Be it so.
(Moves from the door.)
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Come still more this way.
PENICULUS
Very well.
(Moves.)
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus
Even still, step aside boldly from the lioness’s den.
PENICULUS
(still moving.)
Well done; by my troth, as I fancy, you really would bean excellent charioteers[*].
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Why so?
PENICULUS
That your wife mayn’t follow you, you are looking back ever and anon.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
But what say you?
PENICULUS
What, I? Why, whatever you choose, that same do I say, and that same do I deny.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Could you make any conjecture at all from the smell, if perchance you were to take a smell at something?
PENICULUS
Were the college of Augurs summoned ⋯
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
(holds out the skirt of the mantle.)
Come then, take a sniff at this mantle that I’m holding. What does it smell of? Do you decline?
PENICULUS
It’s as well to smell the top of a woman’s garment; for at this other place the nose is offended with an odour that can’t be washed out.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
(holding another part.)
Take a smell here then, Peniculus, as you are so daintily nice.
PENICULUS
Very well.
(He smells it.)
MENAECHMUS
How now? What does it smell of? Answer me.
PENICULUS
Theft, a mistress, and a breakfast. To you ⋯
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
You have spoken out ⋯ now it shall be taken to this mistress of mine, the Courtesan Erotium. I’ll order a breakfast at once to be got ready, for me, you, and her;
then will we booze away even to the morrow’s morning star.
PENICULUS
Capital. You’ve spoken out distinctly. Am I to knock at the door then?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Knock—or hold, rather.

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