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Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (384b-422b)

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That purse that you are carrying has been smelt out by her.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
(aside.)
I’ faith, and rightly have you put me in mind. Take it, then; I’ll know now whether she loves myself or the purse most.
(Gives him the purse.)
EROTIUM
Let’s go in the house to breakfast.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
You invite me kindly; so far, my thanks.
EROTIUM
Why then did you bid me a while since prepare a breakfast for you?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
I, bid you prepare?
EROTIUM
Certainly you did, for yourself and your Parasite.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
A plague, what Parasite? Surely this woman isn’t quite right in her senses.
EROTIUM
Peniculus.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Who is this Peniculus The one with which the shoes are wiped clean[*]?
EROTIUM
Him, I mean, who came with you a while ago, when you brought me the mantle which you purloined from your wife.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
What do you mean? I, gave you a mantle, which I purloined from my wife? Are you in your senses?
Surely this woman dreams standing, after the manner of a gelding[*].
EROTIUM
Why does it please you to hold me in ridicule, and to deny to me things that have been done by you?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Tell me what it is that I deny after having done it?
EROTIUM
That you to-day gave me your wife’s mantle.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
Even still do I deny it. Indeed, I never had a wife, nor have I one; nor
have I ever set my foot here within the city gate since I was born. I breakfasted on board ship; thence did I come this way, and here I met you.
EROTIUM
See that now; I’m undone, wretched creature that I am! What ship are you now telling me about?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
A wooden one, weather-beaten full oft, cracked full oft, many a time thumped with mallets. Just as the implements of the furrier[*]; so peg is close to peg.
EROTIUM
Now, prithee, do leave off making fun of me, and step this way with me.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
⋯ for, madam, you are looking for some other person, I know not whom, not me.
EROTIUM
Don’t I know you, Menaechmus, the son of your father Moschus, who are said to have been born in Sicily, at Syracuse, where King Agathocles reigned, and after him Pintia[*], the third Liparo, who at his death left the kingdom to Hiero—which Hiero is now king?
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
You say, madam, what is not untrue.
MESSENIO
By Jupiter, hasn’t this woman come from there, who knows you so readily? ⋯
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
(apart.)
Troth, I think she must not be denied.
MESSENIO
(apart.)
Don’t you do it. You are undone, if you enter inside her threshold.
MENAECHMUS SOSICLES
(apart.)
But you only hold your tongue ⋯ The matter goes on well. I shall assent to the woman, whatever she shall say, if I can get some entertainment. Just now, madam (speaking to her in a low voice),
I contradicted you not undesignedly; I was afraid of that fellow, lest he might carry word to my wife about the mantle and the breakfast. Now, when you please, let’s go in-doors.
EROTIUM
Are you going to wait for the Parasite as well?

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