Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (35-60b)

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and whatever lie he shall tell, to it I must agree.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What was it I was saying?

ARTOTROGUS

O, I know what you were going to say just now. I’ faith ’twas bravely done; I remember its being done.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What was that?

ARTOTROGUS

Whatever it was you were going to say.

PYRGOPOLINICES

Have you got your tablets[*]?

ARTOTROGUS

Are you intending to enlist[*]? I have them, and a pen as well.

PYRGOPOLINICES

How cleverly you do suit your mind to my own mind.

ARTOTROGUS

’Tis fit that I should know your inclinations studiously, so that whatever you wish should first occur[*] to me.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What do you remember?

ARTOTROGUS

I do remember this. In Cilicia there were a hundred and fifty men, a hundred in Cryphiolathronia [*], thirty at Sardis, sixty men of Macedon,

whom you slaughtered altogether in one day.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What is the sum total of those men?

ARTOTROGUS

Seven thousand.

PYRGOPOLINICES

It must be as much: you keep the reckoning well.

ARTOTROGUS

Yet I have none of them written down; still, so I remember it was.

PYRGOPOLINICES

By my troth, you have a right good memory.

ARTOTROGUS
(aside.)

’Tis the flesh-pots [*] give it a fillip.

PYRGOPOLINICES

So long as you shall do such as you have done hitherto, you shall always have something to eat: I will always make you a partaker at my table.

ARTOTROGUS

Besides, in Cappadocia, you would have killed five hundred men altogether at one blow, had not your sabre been blunt.

PYRGOPOLINICES

I let them live, because I was quite sick of fighting.

ARTOTROGUS

Why should I tell you what all mortals know, that you, Pyrgopolinices, live alone upon the earth, with valour, beauty, and achievements most unsurpassed? All the women are in love with you, and that not without reason, since you are so handsome. Witness those girls that pulled me by my mantle yesterday.

PYRGOPOLINICES

What was it they said to you?

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