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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (240-269b)

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But I long to see you.
PALAESTRA
In that wish you are my rival.
AMPELISCA
Let’s follow our voices with our steps; where are you?
PALAESTRA
See, here am I. Step onward towards me, and come straight on to meet me.
AMPELISCA
I’m doing so with care.
(They meet in front of the stage.)
PALAESTRA
Give me your hand.
AMPELISCA
Take it.
PALAESTRA
Are you still alive? Prithee, tell me.
AMPELISCA
You, indeed, make me now wish to live,
since I’m empowered to touch you. How hardly can I persuade myself of this, that I am holding you. Prithee, do embrace me (they embrace), my only hope; how you are now easing me of all my woes.
PALAESTRA
You are beforehand with me in using expressions which belong to me. Now it befits us to be going hence.
AMPELISCA
Prithee, whither shall we go?
PALAESTRA
Let’s keep along this sea-shore.
(Pointing to the shore.)
AMPELISCA
Wherever you please, I’ll follow.
PALAESTRA
Shall we go along thus with our wet clothing?
AMPELISCA
That which exists, the same must of necessity be borne. (Looking up at the Temple.) But, pray, what’s this?
PALAESTRA
What is it?
AMPELISCA
Prithee, don’t you see this Temple?
(Pointing towards it.)
PALAESTRA
Where is it?
AMPELISCA
On the right hand.
PALAESTRA
I seem to be looking at a place becoming the Divinities.
AMPELISCA
There must be people not far hence; it is so delightful a spot. Whoever the God is, I pray him to relieve us from these troubles, and to succour us females, wretched, helpless, and in distress.
(They advance towards the Temple, and kneel down before it.)
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(Enter PTOLEMOCRATIA, the Priestess, from the Temple of Venus.)
PTOLEMOCRATIA
Who are these, that in their prayers are soliciting aid from my Patroness?
For the voice of suppliants has brought me hither out of doors. They pay suit to a kind and compliant Goddess and a Patroness that makes no difficulties, and one who is very benevolent.
PALAESTRA
Mother, we bid you hail.
PTOLEMOCRATIA
Maidens, hail to you. But, prithee, whence
am I to say that you are hither come with your wet garments, thus wofully arrayed?
PALAESTRA
Just now, we came from a place there (pointing towards the shore), not a great way from this spot; but it is a great way off from here, whence we have been brought hither.
PTOLEMOCRATIA
Have you been borne, do you mean, by a ship, the wooden steed[*], over the azure paths?
PALAESTRA
Even so.

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