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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (522b-564c)

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Because I am not deserving of it, whereas you are deserving.
LABRAX
O bulrush, bulrush, I do praise your lot, who always maintain your credit for dryness.
CHARMIDES
(his teeth chattering.)
For my part, I’m exercising myself for a skirmishing fight[*], for, from my shivering, I utter all my words in piecemeal flashes.
LABRAX
By my troth, Neptune, you are a purveyor of chilly baths; since I got away from you with my clothes, I’ve been freezing.
No hot liquor-shop[*] at all for sure does he provide;
so salt and cold the potions that he prepares.
CHARMIDES
How lucky are the blacksmiths who are always sitting among hot coals; they are always warm.
LABRAX
I only wish that I were now enjoying the lot of the duck, so as, although I had just come from out of the water, still to be dry.
CHARMIDES
What if I some way or other let myself out at the games for a hobgoblin[*]?
LABRAX
For what reason?
CHARMIDES
Because, I’ faith, I’m chattering aloud with my teeth.
But I’m of opinion that, with very good reason, I’ve had this ducking.
LABRAX
How so?
CHARMIDES
Why, haven’t I ventured to go on board ship with yourself, who have been stirring up the ocean for me from the very bottom?
LABRAX
I listened to you when advising me; you assured me that there in Sicily was very great profit from courtesans; there, you used to say, I should be able to amass wealth.
CHARMIDES
Did you expect, then, you unclean beast, that you were going to gobble up the whole island of Sicily?
LABRAX
What whale, I wonder, has gobbled up my wallet where all my gold and silver was packed up?
CHARMIDES
That same one, I suppose, that has swallowed my purse, which was full of silver in my travelling-bag.
LABRAX
Alas! I’m reduced even to this one poor tunic (stretching it out)
and to this poor shabby cloak; I’m done for to all intents.
CHARMIDES
Then you may even go into partnership with me; we have got equal shares.
LABRAX
If at least my damsels had been saved, there would have been some hope. Now, if the young man Plesidippus should be seeing me,
from whom I received the earnest for Palaestra, he’ll then be causing me some trouble in consequence.
(He begins to cry.)
CHARMIDES
Why cry, you fool? Really, by my troth, so long as your tongue shall exist, you have abundance with which to make payment to everybody[*].
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(Enter SCEPARNIO, from the Temple.)
SCEPARNIO
(to himself, aloud.)
What to-do is this, I’d like to know, that two young women
here in the Temple, in tears, are holding in their embrace the statue of Venus, dreading I know not what in their wretchedness? But they say that this last night they have been tossed about, and to-day cast on shore from the waves.
LABRAX
(overhearing.)
Troth now, young man, prithee, where are these young women that you are talking of?
SCEPARNIO
Here (pointing) in the Temple of Venus.
LABRAX
How many are there?
SCEPARNIO
Just as many as you and I make.

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