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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (678-710b)

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Ampelisca, harkye!
PALAESTRA
Prithee, who is it that calls us?
AMPELISCA
Who is it that calls me by name?
TRACHALIO
If you turn round and look, you’ll know.
PALAESTRA
(turning round.)
O hope of my safety!
TRACHALIO
Be silent and of good courage; trust me[*].
PALAESTRA
If only it can be so, let not violence overwhelm us.
TRACHALIO
What violence?
PALAESTRA
That same which is driving me to commit violence on myself.
TRACHALIO
Oh, do leave off; you are very silly.
PALAESTRA
Then do you leave off at once your consoling me in my misery with words.
AMPELISCA
Unless you afford us protection in reality[*], Trachalio, it’s all over with us.
PALAESTRA
I’m resolved to die sooner than suffer this Procurer to get me in his power. But still I am of woman’s heart; when, in my misery, death comes into my mind, fear takes possession of my limbs.[*]
TRACHALIO
By my troth, although this is a bitter affliction,
do have a good heart.
PALAESTRA
Why where, pray, is a good heart to be found for me?
TRACHALIO
Don’t you fear, I tell you; sit you down here by the altar.
(Points to it.)
AMPELISCA
What can this altar possibly avail us more than the statue here within the Temple
of Venus, from which just now, embracing it, in our wretchedness, we were torn by force?
TRACHALIO
Only you be seated here; then I’ll protect you in this spot. This altar you possess as though your bulwarks[*]; these your fortifications; from this spot will I defend you. With the aid of Venus, I’ll march against the wickedness of the Procurer.
PALAESTRA
We follow your instructions (they advance to the altar and kneel); and genial Venus, we both of us, in tears, implore thee,
embracing this thy altar, bending upon our knees, that thou wilt receive us into thy guardianship, and be our protector; that thou wilt punish those wretches who have set at nought thy Temple, and that thou wilt suffer us to occupy this thy altar with thy permission, we who last night were by the might of Neptune cast away;
hold us not in scorn, and do not for that reason impute it to us as a fault, if there is anything that thou shouldst think is not so well attended to[*] by us as it ought to have been.
TRACHALIO
I think they ask what’s just; it ought, Venus, by thee to be granted. Thou oughtst to pardon them; ’tis terror forces them to do this. They say that thou wast born from a shell[*]; take thou care that thou dost not despise the shells of these.
But see, most opportunely the old gentleman is coming out, both my protector and your own.
(He goes to the altar.)
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(Enter DAEMONES, from the Temple, with his two SERVANTS dragging out LABRAX.)
DAEMONES
Come out of the Temple, you most sacrilegious of men, as many as have ever been born. Do you go (calling to the WOMEN) and sit by the altar. (Not seeing them near the door.) But where are they?
TRACHALIO
Look round here.
DAEMONES
(looking round.)
Very good; I wanted that[*]. Now bid him come this way. (To LABRAX.) Are you attempting here among us to commit a violation of the laws against the Deities?
(To the SERVANTS, who obey with alacrity.) Punch his face with your fists.
LABRAX
I’m suffering these indignities at your own cost.

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