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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (139-178)

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Really, so far as I’m concerned, I’ faith, you may be safe and sound.
SCEPARNIO
(stopping in his digging.)
Hark you, you that are roaming about Temples for the sake of your stomach, ’twere better for you to order a breakfast to be got ready at home.
Perhaps you’ve been invited here[*] to breakfast. He that invited you, hasn’t he come at all?
PLESIDIPPUS
’Tis the fact.
SCEPARNIO
There’s no risk then in your betaking yourself hence home without your breakfast.
It’s better for you to be a waiter upon Ceres than upon Venus; the latter attends to love, Ceres attends to wheat.
PLESIDIPPUS
(to DAEMONES.)
This fellow has been making sport of me in a digraceful manner.
DAEMONES
(looking out at the side.)
O ye immortal Gods, Sceparnio, what means those people near the sea-shore?
SCEPARNIO
According to my notion,
they’ve been invited to a parting breakfast[*].
DAEMONES
How so?
SCEPARNIO
Why, because, after dinner, I fancy, they yesterday washed themselves clean;
their ship has gone to pieces out at sea.
DAEMONES
(looking steadfastly.)
Such is the fact.
SCEPARNIO
But, I’ faith, on dry land our cottage and tiles have done the same.
DAEMONES
Oh dear! what unfortunate creatures you are; (to SCEPARNIO) how the shipwrecked people are swimming.
PLESIDIPPUS
Prithee, where are these people?
DAEMONES
(pointing to the distance.)
This way, to the right; don’t you see them near the shore?
PLESIDIPPUS
(looking the same way.)
I see them; (to his FRIENDS) follow me. I only wish it may be he that I’m seeking, that most accursed fellow. (To DAEMONES and SCEPARNIO.) Fare you well.
SCEPARNIO
If you hadn’t put us in mind, we should have thought of that ourselves.
(Exeunt PLESIDIPPUS and FRIENDS. SCEPARNIO looks out towards the sea.)
But, O Palaemon[*], hallowed associate of Neptune, who art said to be the partner of Hercules, what shocking thing do I see?
DAEMONES
What do you see?
SCEPARNIO
I see two young women sitting in a boat alone. How the poor things are being tossed about That’s good, that’s good, well done.
The surge is driving the boat away from the rock towards the shore. Not a pilot could have ever done it better. I don’t think that I ever saw billows more huge. They are saved, if they can escape those waves. Now, now’s the danger; it has sent one overboard!
See you that one whom the waves have thrown out of the boat?
Still, she’s in a shallow place; she’ll easily wade through it now. O capital!
now she’s safe; she has escaped from the water; she’s now on shore. But that other one has now sprung towards the land from the boat—from her alarm she has fallen into the waves upon her knees.
She has got up again; if she takes this direction, the matter’s safe; (a pause) but she has taken to the right, to utter destruction. Ah, she will be wandering all the day—
DAEMONES
What signifies that to you?
SCEPARNIO
If she should fall down from that rock towards which she is wending her way,

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