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Poenulus, or The Young Carthaginian (392-427b)

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By my troth, I do entreat you, his delight and my own aversion; his full-bosomed mistress, my enemy and evil-wisher; his eye, my eyesore; his honey, my gall—
don’t you be angry with him; or, if that cannot be, do take a rope and hang yourself, with your master and your household: for I see that henceforth, on your account, I shall have to live upon sighing; and as it is, I’ve already got my back about as hard with weals as an oyster-shell, by reason of your amours.
ADELPHASIUM
Prithee, do you wish me to hinder him
from beating you, rather than that he should not prove untrue towards me?
ANTERASTYLIS
(to her SISTER.)
Do answer him in somewhat kindly terms, there’s a dear, that he mayn’t be annoying to us; for he’s detaining us from our purpose.
ADELPHASIUM
That’s true. This one fault more will I pardon you for, Agorastocles. I am not angry.
AGORASTOCLES
You are not?
ADELPHASIUM
I am not.
AGORASTOCLES
That I may believe you, give me a kiss then.
ADELPHASIUM
I’ll give you one by-and-by, when I return from the sacrifice.
AGORASTOCLES
Be off, then, in all haste.
ADELPHASIUM
Follow me, sister.
AGORASTOCLES
And do you hear too? Pay all compliments to Venus in my name.
ADELPHASIUM
I’ll pay them.
AGORASTOCLES
Listen to this, too—
ADELPHASIUM
What is it?
AGORASTOCLES
Perform the ceremony in few words. And do you hear? Look back at me. (She looks back.) She did look back. By my troth, I trust that Venus will do the same for you.
(ADELPHASIUM, ANTERASTYLIS, and ATTENDANT go into the Temple of Venus.)
410
(AGORASTOCLES and MILPHIO.)
AGORASTOCLES
What now do you advise me to do, Milphio?
MILPHIO
To give me a beating, and then have an auction[*]; for (pointing to the house) really, upon my faith, with utter impunity you might put up this house for sale.
AGORASTOCLES
Why so?
MILPHIO
For the greater part you make your dwelling in my mouth[*].
AGORASTOCLES
Do have done with those expressions.
MILPHIO
What now do you wish?
AGORASTOCLES
I just now gave three hundred Philippeans to the bailiff Collybiscus, before you called me out of doors. I now adjure you, Milphio, by this right hand, and by this left hand its sister, and by your eyes, and by my passion, and by my own Adelphasium,
and by your liberty[*]—
MILPHIO
Why, now you adjure me by nothing at all.
AGORASTOCLES
My dear little Milphio, my kind occasion, my safeguard, do what you promised me you would do, that I may prove the ruin of this Procurer.
MILPHIO
Why, that’s very easy to be done. Be off, bring here with you your witnesses; meanwhile, in-doors I’ll forthwith provide your bailiff with my disguise and stratagems. Make haste and be off.
AGORASTOCLES
I fly.
MILPHIO
That’s more my part[*] than yours.

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