Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed (244_245-274)

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Here, when you were carrying on a most worthless auction.

GELASIMUS

How now; did you really hear it?

CROCOTIUM

Aye, and one really right worthy of yourself.

GELASIMUS

Where are you bound for now?

CROCOTIUM

For yourself.

GELASIMUS

Why have you come?

CROCOTIUM

Philumena bade me ask you by all means to come to visit her at her house this instant, together with me.

GELASIMUS

I’ faith, but I’ll surely come there as fast as I can. Are the entrails cooked[*] by this? With how many lambs has she been sacrificing?

CROCOTIUM

Indeed, she hasn’t been sacrificing at all.

GELASIMUS

How? What does she want with me, then?

CROCOTIUM

I think that she’s going to ask you for ten measures of wheat.

GELASIMUS

Or me rather ask it of her?

CROCOTIUM

No; that you yourself should lend them to us.

GELASIMUS

Tell her that I’ve nothing to give myself, or that she could wish to borrow, nor anything whatever, except this cloak that I have on. Even my very tongue that so freely used to offer itself[*] I’ve sold as well.

CROCOTIUM

How? Have you got no tongue?

GELASIMUS

Why, the former one, that used to say here, take me[*], I’ve lost: see, here’s one now that says give me.

(Puts out his tongue.)

CROCOTIUM

A curse may the Gods give you ⋯

GELASIMUS

Aye, if a curse you want, this same tongue will give you that.

CROCOTIUM

Well now, are you coming or not?

GELASIMUS

Well, be off home;

tell her I’ll be there this moment; make haste and be off. (CROCOTIUM goes into the house.)

I wonder why she has requested me to be fetched to her, who has never, before this day, requested that I should be fetched to her, ever since her husband left. I wonder what it can be; except it is for some experiment to be made upon me; I’ll go see what she wants.

But see, here’s her boy, Pinacium. Look at that now; how very facetiously and just like a picture[*] does he stand? Full many a time, for sure, in good troth, has he poured out for me the wine, almost unmixed, right cleverly into a very tiny cup[*] indeed.

(Stands aside.)

274

(Enter PINACIUM at a distance, with a fishing-rod, hooks, and a basket in his hand.)

PINACIUM
(to himself.)

Mercury, who is said to be the messenger of Jove, never bore such pleasing tidings to his father, as I shall e’en now be telling to my mistress.

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