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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (1003b-1030)

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Really so, indeed? You are a fool.
GRIPUS
My respects to you, Mister Thales [*]
(Going.)
TRACHALIO
(holding him.)
You shan’t carry that off this day, unless you find a place of safe keeping for it, or an umpire,
by whose arbitration this matter may be settled.
GRIPUS
Prithee, are you in your senses?
TRACHALIO
I’m mad, in need of hellebore.
GRIPUS
But I’m troubled with sprites; still I shan’t let this go.
(Hugs the wallet.)
TRACHALIO
Only add a single word more, that instant I’ll drive my fists smash into your brains. This instant on this spot, just as a new napkin is wont to be wrung, I’ll wring out of you whatever moisture there is, if you don’t let this go.
(Seizes the wallet.)
GRIPUS
Touch me; I’ll dash you down on the ground just in such fashion as I’m in the habit of doing with a polypus fish[*]. Would you like to fight?
(Assumes a boxing attitude.)
TRACHALIO
What need is there? Nay, in preference, divide the booty.
GRIPUS
You can’t get anything from here but harm to yourself, so don’t expect it. I’m taking myself off.
TRACHALIO
But I’ll turn aside your ship from that direction, that you mayn’t be off anywhere—stop.
(Stands in front of him, and holds the rope.)
GRIPUS
If you are the helmsman of this ship, I’ll be the pilot.
Let go of the rope now, you villain.
TRACHALIO
I will let go; do you let go of the wallet.
GRIPUS
I’ faith, you shall never this day become a scrap the more wealthy from this.
TRACHALIO
You cannot convince me by repeatedly denying, unless either a part is given me, or it is referred to arbitration, or it is placed in safe keeping.
GRIPUS
What, that which I got out of the sea—?
TRACHALIO
But I spied it out from the shore.
GRIPUS
—With my own pains and labour, and net and boat.
TRACHALIO
If now the owner, whose property it is, were to come, how am I, who espied from afar that you had taken this, a bit the less the thief than yourself?
GRIPUS
None whatever.
(Going.)
TRACHALIO
(seizing the net.)
Stop, you whip-knave; just let me learn of you by what reasoning I am not the sharer, and yet the thief.
GRIPUS
I don’t know; neither do I know these city laws of yours,
only that I affirm that this is mine.
(Looks at the wallet.)
TRACHALIO
And I, too, say that it is mine.
GRIPUS
Stay now; I’ve discovered by what method you may be neither thief nor sharer.
TRACHALIO
By what method?
GRIPUS
Let me go away from here; you quietly go your own way, and don’t you inform against me to any one, and I won’t give anything to you. You hold your tongue; I’ll be mum. This is the best and the fairest plan.
TRACHALIO
Well, what proposition do you venture to make?

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