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Truculentus, or The Churl (137-174b)

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Because you trouble yourself about things that don’t concern your own clothing and food.
DINARCHUS
It’s yourselves have made me a gentleman at ease.
ASTAPHIUM
Why so?
DINARCHUS
I’ll explain it to you. I’ve lost my property; with my property you’ve robbed me of occupation.
If I had preserved my property, there had been something with which I might have been occupied.
ASTAPHIUM
And do you suppose that you can possibly well manage the affairs of state, or those of love, on any other terms without being a gentleman at ease?
DINARCHUS
It was she held a public employment, not I; you misinterpret me. But, against the law, in spite of my tax paid for pasturage[*], she has received other cattle beside myself.
ASTAPHIUM
Most persons who manage their property badly, do the same as you are doing; when they haven’t wherewith to pay the tax, they blame the farmers of the taxes.
DINARCHUS
My pasturage contract with you turns out but badly; now in its turn, I wish to have, according to my narrow circumstances, a little bit of arable land here with you.
ASTAPHIUM
Here is no arable, but the field is pasture land. If
you desire some ploughing, you had better go to those[*] who are in the habit of ploughing; we hold this public emolument, the right of pasturage; those are farmers of other taxes.
DINARCHUS
Full well enough do I know both sides.
ASTAPHIUM
I’ troth, it’s that way you are a gentleman at ease, since you’ve been going wrong both in that direction and in this. But the acquaintance of which do you like the best?
DINARCHUS
You are the more exacting, but they are perjured.
Whatever’s given to them is lost outright, nor with themselves is there any show at all of it; you, if you gain anything, do at least drink and feast it away. In short, they are unprincipled; you are good-for-nothings, and full of airs.
ASTAPHIUM
All this abuse which, Dinarchus, you are uttering against us and them, you utter against yourself, both as respects us and them.
DINARCHUS
How’s that?
ASTAPHIUM
I’ll tell the reason;
because he who accuses another of dishonesty, him it behoves to look into himself. You who are so prudent, have got nothing from us; we, who are good-for-nothings, have got all out of you.
DINARCHUS
O Astaphium! you were not in the habit of speaking to me in that fashion formerly, but courteously, when I myself possessed that which is now in your possession.
ASTAPHIUM
While he’s alive, you may know a person; when he’s dead, you may keep yourself quiet.
I used to know you when you were alive.
DINARCHUS
Do you consider me to be dead?
ASTAPHIUM
Prithee, how can it be plainer? He who formerly was esteemed a first-rate lover, for him to be bringing to his mistress nought but lamentations[*].
DINARCHUS
I’ faith, through your own faults it was done, who in former days were in haste to plunder me. You ought to have done it leisurely, that, unscathed, I might last the longer for you.
ASTAPHIUM
A lover is like an enemy’s fortress.
DINARCHUS
On what ground?
ASTAPHIUM
The sooner the lover can be taken by storm, the better it is for the mistress.
DINARCHUS
I confess it; but far different is the friend from the lover. I’ faith, for sure, the oldest friend’s the best one possible for a man.
I’ faith, my lands and tenements are not yet all gone.

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