Stichus, or The Parasite Rebuffed (753-775)

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Now I do long to be cozy with you both.

STICHUS

I’m ruined utterly. What were you saying?

SAGARINUS

Heyday! What’s the matter?

STICHUS

So may the Gods favour me, it never shall be otherwise this day but that this girl shall have a dance somehow. Come, my love, my sweet, do dance; I’ll dance too.

(They rise and dance.)

SAGARINUS

I’ faith, you shan’t that way get the better of me, but what I’ll have a bit of enjoyment, too, that way.

STEPHANIUM

Well, if I must dance, do you then give the Piper something to drink.

STICHUS

Aye, and to me.

SAGARINUS
(holds the goblet to the PIPER.)

Piper, you take first: and after that, if you tipple this off, just as has been your wont before to-day, straightway

strike up some merry and amorous tune to dance to, by which we may tingle all over from our very finger nails. Pour some water here.

(The PIPER stops playing while he drinks the water.)

SAGARINUS

Take this, you; toss it off. The drink didn’t please him just now; now at last he takes it with less difficulty. Take it, you. (To STEPHANIUM.) In the meantime, apple of my eye, give me a kiss while he’s drinking.

STEPHANIUM

Why, it’s the way of a common strumpet, for a damsel to give a kiss standing to her sweetheart as he stands.[*]

(She turns away, while he tries to kiss her.)

STICHUS

Bravo! bravo! that’s the way it’s given to a thief[*].

SAGARINUS

Come, blow out your cheeks now; something in the amorous way[*] at once. Give us a new tune in return for the old wine.

SAGARINUS

What person in the Ionian[*] or the ballet line is there that can do anything like that?

(He capers about.)

STICHUS

If you get the better of me this turn[*], just challenge me to another.

SAGARINUS

Just you do it in this fashion.

(Capers.)

STICHUS

And you in this fashion.

(Capers too.)

SAGARINUS

O grand[*]!

STICHUS

O fine!

SAGARINUS

O wonderful!

STICHUS

Quiet[*]!

SAGARINUS

Now, then, both in the same step. (They dance quietly, in the same measure.) I challenge all the dancing-masters to dance against me. ’Tis no more possible for there to be enough of this for us than for there to be too much rain for a mushroom.

STICHUS
(ceasing to dance)

Let’s away hence in-doors at once now; we’ve danced long enough for the wine[*].

You, Spectators, give us your applause, and then go home to enjoy yourselves.

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