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Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (711-740b)

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Why, the insolent fellow’s threatening even.
LABRAX
I’ve been robbed of my rights; you are robbing me of my female slaves against my will.
TRACHALIO
Do you then find some wealthy man of the Senate of Cyrene as judge, whether these women ought to be yours, or whether they oughtn’t to be free,
or whether it isn’t right that you should be clapped into prison, and there spend your life, until you have worn the whole gaol out with your feet.
LABRAX
I wasn’t prepared to prophesy for this day that I should be talking with a hang-gallows[*] like yourself. (Turning to DAEMONES.) You do I summon to judgment.
DAEMONES
(pointing to TRACHALIO.)
In the first place, try it with him who knows you.
LABRAX
(to DAEMONES.)
My suit is with yourself.
TRACHALIO
But it must be with myself. (Pointing to the WOMEN.) Are these your female slaves?
LABRAX
They are.
TRACHALIO
Just come then, touch either of them with your little finger only.
LABRAX
What if I do touch them?
TRACHALIO
That very instant, upon my faith, I’ll make a hand-ball[*] of you, and while you’re in the air I’ll belabour you with my fists, you most perjured villain.
LABRAX
Am I not to be allowed to take away my female slaves from the altar of Venus?
DAEMONES
You may not; such is the law with us.
LABRAX
I’ve no concern with your laws; for my part, I shall at once carry them both away from here[*].
If you are in love with them, old gentleman (holding out his hand), you must down here with the ready cash.
DAEMONES
But these women have proved pleasing to Venus.
LABRAX
She may have them, if she pays the money.[*]
DAEMONES
A Goddess, pay you money? Now then, that you may understand my determination, only do you commence in mere joke to offer them the very slightest violence;
I’ll send you away from here with such a dressing, that you won’t know your own self. You, therefore (turning to his SERVANTS), when I give you the signal, if you don’t beat his eyes out of his head, I’ll trim you round about with rods just like beds of myrtle[*] with bulrushes.
LABRAX
You are treating me with violence.
TRACHALIO
What, do you even upbraid us with violence, you flagrant specimen of flagitiousness?
LABRAX
You, you thrice-dotted villain[*], do you dare to speak abusively to me?
TRACHALIO
I am a thrice-dotted villain; I confess it; you are a strictly honorable man; ought these women a bit the less to be free?
LABRAX
What—free?
TRACHALIO
Aye, and your mistresses, too, I’ faith, and from genuine Greece [*]; for one of them was born at Athens of free-born parents.
DAEMONES
What is it I hear from you?
TRACHALIO
That she (pointing to PALAESTRA) was born at Athens, a free-born woman.
DAEMONES
(to TRACHALIO.)
Prithee is she a countrywoman of mine?
TRACHALIO
Are you not a Cyrenian?

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