Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain (757-785)

urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi012.perseus-eng2:757-785

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Troth, in that self-same fashion ’tis generally done. How clever and shrewd is his discernment.

PERIPLECOMENUS

But these same persons never say, although such an abundance has been provided, Do order that to be taken off; do take away this dish; remove this gammon of bacon, I’ll have none of it;

put aside that piece of pork; this conger’s good[*] when cold; remove it, take and put it aside. You hear none of them saying this in earnest, but they stretch themselves out, while with half their bodies[*] on the table, they are indulging their appetite.

PALAESTRIO

How cleverly the good soul has described their bad manners.

PERIPLECOMENUS

I have not said a hundredth part of what I could have enlarged upon had there been leisure for the matter.

PALAESTRIO

The business, then, that we are about—to that we ought first to turn our thoughts. Do you both, now, give me your attention. I have need, Periplecomenus, of your assistance; for I have hit upon a pleasant trick, how this Captain with his long locks may be fleeced quite close[*], and how we may effect a means for Philocomasium, and this her lover,

that he may carry her off hence, and have her as his own.

PERIPLECOMENUS

I wish this plan to be imparted to me.

PALAESTRIO

And I, wish that ring of yours to be imparted to me.

PERIPLECOMENUS

For what purpose is it to be used?

PALAESTRIO

When I have got it, I will impart the plan of my devices.

PERIPLECOMENUS

Take and use it. (Gives him the ring.)

PALAESTRIO

Take from me in return the plan of my contrivance that I have hit upon.

PERIPLECOMENUS

We are listening to you with most attentive ear.

PALAESTRIO

My master is such a shocking rake among the women, that I think no one ever was his equal, nor ever will be.

PERIPLECOMENUS

I believe the same as well.

PALAESTRIO

He boasts, too, that his beauty exceeds that of Alexander [*]; and, therefore, he says that all the women[*] in Ephesus of their own accord are courting him.

PERIPLECOMENUS

Aye, faith, many there are who could wish[*] that you were now telling an untruth about him.

But I am convinced full well that it is as you say. For that reason, Palaestrio, do compress your words in as short a compass as ever you possibly can.

PALAESTRIO

Can you, then, find any woman of agreable person, whose mind and body are full of merriment and subtlety?

PERIPLECOMENUS

Free by birth, or bondwoman made free?

PALAESTRIO

I consider that a matter of indifference, so that

you find one who is greedy for gain, who supports her body by her charms, who has, too, her senses all awake; as for her heart, that cannot be so, as none of them have one.

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