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Menaechmi, or The Twin Brothers (604-650c)

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By heavens, you have assuredly taken that away from me at a heavy usury;
such is the return[*].
(Shaking her fist.)
PENICULUS
Such is the return. Do you make haste to eat up the breakfast in my absence; and then in your drunkenness make fun of me, with your chaplet on, before the house.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
By all the powers, I have neither breakfasted, nor have I this day set foot inside of that house.
PENICULUS
Do you deny it?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
By my troth, I really do deny it.
PENICULUS
Nothing is there more audacious than this fellow. Did I not just now see you standing here before the house, with a chaplet of flowers on, when you were declaring that my headpiece wasn’t sound, and declaring that you didn’t know me, and saying that you were a foreigner?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
On the contrary, as some time since I parted with you, so I’m now returning home at last.
PENICULUS
I understand you. You didn’t think it was in my power to take vengeance upon you; i’ faith, I’ve told it all to your wife.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Told her what?
PENICULUS
I don’t know; ask her own self.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
(turning to his WIFE.)
What’s this, wife? Pray, what has he been telling you? What is it? Why are you silent? Why don’t you say what it is?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
As though you didn’t know.
I’ faith, I certainly am a miserable woman.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Why are you a miserable woman? tell me.
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Do you ask me?
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Faith, I shouldn’t ask you if I knew.
PENICULUS
O the wicked fellow; how he does dissemble. You cannot conceal it; she knows the matter thoroughly; by my faith, I’ve disclosed everything.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
What is it?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Inasmuch as you are not at all ashamed, and don’t wish to confess of your own accord, listen, and attend to this; I’ll both let you know why I’m sorrowful, and what he has told me.
My mantle has been purloined from me at home.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Mantle purloined from me?
PENICULUS
(to the WIFE.)
D’you see how the rogue is catching you up? (To MENAECHMUS.) It was purloined from her, not from you; for certainly if it had been purloined from you, it would now be safe.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
(to PENICULUS.)
I’ve nothing to do with you. But (to his WIFE) what is it you say?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
A mantle, I say, has been lost from home.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Who has stolen it?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
I faith, he knows that, who took it away.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
What person was it?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
A certain Menaechmus.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
By my troth, ’twas villanously done. Who is this Menaechmus?

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