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Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (457-475)

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Sceledrus, you’ve lost the prey through your hands; as sure as possible she is the lady of our master. Do you intend to act in this matter with spirit?
SCELEDRUS
How am I to act?
PALAESTRIO
Bring me a sword out here from in-doors.
SCELEDRUS
What will you do with it?
PALAESTRIO
I’ll break right into the house[*]; and whatever man I see in-doors there caressing Philocomasium, I’ll behead him on the spot.
SCELEDRUS
And do you think that it was she?
PALAESTRIO
I’ faith, it was she, sure enough.
SCELEDRUS
But how she did dissemble.
PALAESTRIO
Go, bring me a sword out here.
SCELEDRUS
I’ll have it here this moment.
(Goes into the CAPTAIN’S house.)
(PALAESTRIO alone.)
PALAESTRIO
Beyond a doubt, neither any horse nor foot has so great a degree of boldness
in carrying out anything with as much confidence as some women. How cleverly and how skilfully she performed her part in both her characters!—how her wary keeper, my fellow-servant, is being gulled! ’Tis most fortunate that the passage communicates through the party-wall.
(Enter SCLEDRUS from the CAPTAIN’s house.)
SCELEDRUS
Hallo! Palaestrio, there’s no occasion for the sword.
PALAESTRIO
How so?—or what’s the matter now?
SCELEDRUS
Our master’s lady is there, at home.
PALAESTRIO
What? At home?
SCELEDRUS
She’s lying on the sofa.
PALAESTRIO
Faith, but you’ve certainly brought on yourself a disagreable affair, according to what you report.
SCELEDRUS
How so?
PALAESTRIO
Inasmuch as you have dared to touch that lady next door here.
SCELEDRUS
I’ faith, I fear it much. But no one shall ever make her to be any other than her own twin-sister.
PALAESTRIO
’twas she, in troth, that you saw toying: and, in fact, ’tis plain that it is she, as you remark.
SCELEDRUS
What was there more likely than that I should have been undone, if I had spoken of it to my master.

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