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Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (278-303)

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I’m afraid.
PALAESTRIO
What are you afraid of?
SCELEDRUS
By my troth, lest, this day, as many domestics as there are of us here, we shall jump into a most woful punishmient by way of torture.
PALAESTRIO
Jump you alone, please;
for I don’t at all like this jumping in[*] and jumping out.
SCELEDRUS
Perhaps you don’t know what new mischance has happened at home?
PALAESTRIO
What mischance is this?
SCELEDRUS
A disgraceful one.
PALAESTRIO
Do you then keep it to yourself alone: don’t tell it me; I don’t want to know it.
SCELEDRUS
But I won’t let you not know it. To-day I was following our monkey upon the tiles, next door there.
(Points to the house.)
PALAESTRIO
By my troth, Sceledrus, a worthless fellow, you were following a worthless beast.
SCELEDRUS
The Gods confound you!
PALAESTRIO
That befits yourself, since you began the conversation.
SCELEDRUS
By chance, as it happened, I looked down there through the skylight, into the next house; and there I saw Philocomasium toying with some strange young man, I know not whom.
PALAESTRIO
What scandalous thing is this I hear of you, Sceledrus?
SCELEDRUS
I’ faith, I did see her, beyond a doubt.
PALAESTRIO
What, yourself?
SCELEDRUS
Yes, I myself, with these eyes of mine.
PALAESTRIO
Get away, it isn’t likely what you say, nor did you see her.
SCELEDRUS
Do I, then, appear to you as if I were purblind?
PALAESTRIO
’Twere better for you to ask the doctor about that. But, indeed, if the Gods only love you, don’t you rashly father this[*] idle story. Now are you breeding thence a fatal dilemma for your legs and head;
for, in two ways, the cause is contrived for you to be ruined, unless you put a check upon your foolish chattering.
SCELEDRUS
But how, two ways?
PALAESTRIO
I’ll tell you. First then, if you falsely accuse Philocomasium, by that you are undone; in the next place, if it is true, having been appointed her keeper, there you are undone.
SCELEDRUS
What may happen to me, I know not; I know for certain that I did see this.
PALAESTRIO
Do you persist in it, unfortunate wretch?
SCELEDRUS
What would you have me say to you, but that I did see her? Moreover, she is in there, next door, at this very moment.
PALAESTRIO
What! Isn’t she at home?
SCELEDRUS
Go and see. Go in-doors yourself; for I don’t ask now for any confidence to be put in me.
PALAESTRIO
I’m determined to do so.

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