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Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (470b-520b)

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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.
PALAESTRIO
Then, if you’re wise, you’ll hold your tongue. It befits a servant to know of more than he speaks. I’m going to leave you, that I may not at all participate in your designs. And I shall go to our neighbour here; these turmoils of yours don’t please me.
My master, if he comes, should he inquire for me, I shall be there; send for me next door.
(Goes into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)
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(SCLEDRUS, alone.)
SCELEDRUS
Well, he’s off; nor cares he any more for his master’s business than if he were not in his service. For sure she really is now here in-doors in the house, for I myself found her just now lying down in our house.
I am resolved now to employ myself in watching.
(Places himself against the CAPTAIN’S door.)
(Enter PERIPLECOMENUS from his house.)
PERIPLECOMENUS
Faith, but these men here, these servants of my neighbour the Captain, take me not to be a man, but a woman, so much do they trifle with me. My lady guest, who came here yesterday from Athens with the gentleman, my guest,
is she to be mauled about and made fun of here in the street—a lady, free-born and free?
SCELEDRUS
(aside.)
By my troth, I’m undone. He’s coming in a straight line up towards me. I fear that this matter may cause me great trouble, so far as I have heard this old gentleman speak.
PERIPLECOMENUS
I’ll up to this fellow. Was it you, Sceledrus, source of mischief, that were just now
making fun of my lady guest before the house?
SCELEDRUS
Good neighbour, listen, I beg.
PERIPLECOMENUS
I, listen to you?
SCELEDRUS
I wish to clear myself.
PERIPLECOMENUS
You, clear yourself to me, who have done an action so gross and so unbecoming? And because you are soldiers[*], do you suppose,
you gallows-bird, that you may do what you like with us?
SCELEDRUS
May I—?
PERIPLECOMENUS
But so may all the Gods and Goddesses prosper me, if a punishment with the rod[*] is not given to you at my request, a long and lasting one, from morning to evening; because you have been breaking my gutters and my tiles,
while you were following there a monkey like your own self [*]; because, too, you have been peeping down from there at my guest in my house, when he was caressing and fondling his mistress; besides, you have dared to accuse the chaste lady of your master of criminality, and myself of a heinous offence;
and further, because you have dared to maul about my lady guest before my house. If the punishment of the whip is not given to you, I will cause your master to be more laden with disgrace than the sea is full of waves in a heavy storm.
SCELEDRUS
I am driven to such straits, Periplecomenus, that I don’t know
whether it is fitter for me rather to dispute this matter with you, or whether, if she is not our lady, and if our lady was not seen by me, it seems more proper for me to excuse myself to you; as even now I don’t know which I saw, so like is that guest of yours to our lady—
if, indeed, she is not the same person.
PERIPLECOMENUS
Go into my house and look: you’ll soon see.

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