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Truculentus, or The Churl (386-426)

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Go you away from there into the house, and shut the door. (They go in, and shut the door.) You now alone are left to be present at my communication; to you I’ve ever entrusted my designs. For my own part, I’ve neither had any child nor have I been pregnant;
but I’ve pretended that I was pregnant; I wasn’t though.
DINARCHUS
For what reason, O my life?
PHRONESIUM
On account of a Babylonian Captain, who kept me as though his wife for a year, while he was here.
DINARCHUS
That I knew. But what means this? For what purpose was your design in pretending this?
PHRONESIUM
That there might be a certain bond and tie[*] for him to be returning to me again. Now he has lately sent me a letter hither, that he’ll make trial how much I value him. If I should raise and bring up the child which I should bear,
that then I should have all his property.
DINARCHUS
I listen with pleasure. In fine, what is it you are contriving?
PHRONESIUM
My mother ordered the servant-maids, since now the tenth month is arriving close at hand, each to go in some different direction, to seek out and bespeak a boy or a girl, to be passed off as my own.
Why need I make many words? You know Syra, the female hair-dresser[*], who now lives hard by our house?
DINARCHUS
I know her.
PHRONESIUM
She, with the utmost care, went about among the families, and secretly found out a child, and brought it to me. She said it was given to her.
DINARCHUS
O shocking traffic!
She then hasn’t borne this child who at first did bear it, but you who come afterwards.
PHRONESIUM
You have the whole matter in its order. Now, as the Captain has sent a message before to me, he’ll be here no long time hence.
DINARCHUS
Now, in the mean time, you are treating yourself here as though one who had just lain in?
PHRONESIUM
Why not,
when, without trouble, the matter can be nicely managed? It’s proper that every one should be alive at his own trade.
DINARCHUS
What’s to become of me when the Captain comes? Forsaken, can I live without you?
PHRONESIUM
When I’ve got from him that which I want, I shall easily find a way how
to create discord and a separation between us; after that, my delight, I shall be always at your side.
DINARCHUS
Aye, faith, but I’d rather it were at my couch[*].
PHRONESIUM
Moreover, I wish to sacrifice to-day to the Deities for the child, on this the fifth day[*], as is proper to be done.
DINARCHUS
I think you ought.
PHRONESIUM
Can’t you venture to give me some trifling present?
DINARCHUS
Upon my faith, my delight, I seem to be making a gain for myself when you ask anything of me.

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