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Poenulus, or The Young Carthaginian (573-600)

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Nor for you, indeed, to be speaking ill to your friends in joke.
AGORASTOCLES
Drop this. What I want to do, you understand.
ADVOCATI
We know full well:
to undo the perjured Procurer, it’s that you wish.
AGORASTOCLES
You’ve got the matter right. See, Milphio and the bailiff are opportunely coming out together. He’s coming rigged out like a nobleman, and appropriately, for the plot.
578
(Enter MILPHIO and COLLYBISCUS, from the house of AGORASTOCLES, dressed as a person of quality.)
MILPHIO
Have you now got your instructions by heart?
COLLYBISCUS
Nicely.
MILPHIO
Take care you understand them, please.
COLLYBISCUS
What need is there of talking? I won’t let my own legs understand[*] as well.
MILPHIO
Only take you care that your speeches are learnt by heart for this plot.
COLLYBISCUS
Why, upon my faith, I am more perfect than tragic or comic actors are.
MILPHIO
You are a capital fellow.
AGORASTOCLES
(to the ASSISTANTS.)
Let’s go nearer to them.
(Accosting MILPHIO and COLLYBISCUS.) Here are the witnesses.
MILPHIO
(to AGORASTOCLES.)
Really you could not have brought as many men better suited for this purpose; for not one of them is tongue-tied as a witness [*]; they are genuine men of the law-courts;
there they take up their abode; there you may see them more frequently than the Praetor. At this very time there are no better cookers-up of a lawsuit[*], to stir up litigation, than are these men; for they, if there is no litigation, sow litigation.
ADVOCATI
May the Gods confound you!
MILPHIO
You I really do commend, inasmuch as, whoever you are, still you act both worthily and kindly in giving your aid to my master thus in love.
(To AGORASTOCLES.) But do they now know what the business is?
AGORASTOCLES
The whole matter, all in its order.
MILPHIO
In that case, do you, then, give me your attention. Do you know this Procurer Lycus?
ADVOCATI
Perfectly.
COLLYBISCUS
But, upon my faith, I don’t know him, of what appearance he is. I wish that you would point this fellow out to me.
ADVOCATI
We’ll take all care: we’ve been instructed quite enough.
AGORASTOCLES
(pointing to COLLYBISCUS.)
He has got three hundred pieces counted out.
ADVOCATI
Then it’s right, Agorastocles, that we should see this gold, that we may know what to say by-and-by as our testimony.
AGORASTOCLES
Come and look at it.
(Opens the bag which COLLYBISCUS holds in his hand.
COLLYBISCUS
(to the AUDIENCE.)
Undoubtedly it’s gold, Spectators—playhouse gold [*]; upon this, soaked in water, in foreign lands, the cattle become fat[*]: but, for the carrying out of this design, ’tis real Philippean gold.[*]
ADVOCATI
We’ll make believe it is so.
COLLYBISCUS
But do you make believe as though I were a foreigner.

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