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Truculentus, or The Churl (499b-521)

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The Captain’s now close at hand, my mistress Phronesium:
Stratophanes is coming to you. (In a low voice.) Now is it requisite for you to pretend yourself an invalid.
PHRONESIUM
(in a low voice.)
Hold your tongue. What, the plague, de I want you for as an adviser in this matter? Is it possible to excel myself in craftiness?
STRATOPHANES
(to himself.)
Madam’s brought to bed, as I fancy.
ASTAPHIUM
(it a low voice.)
Would you like me to accost the gentleman?
PHRONESIUM
I wish you.
(ASTAPHIUM moves forward.)
STRATOPHANES
O delightful! Why, see, here’s Astaphium coming to meet me.
ASTAPHIUM
(affecting surprise.)
By all the powers! welcome to you, Stratophanes, that you’re safe arrived—
STRATOPHANES
I know it all. But, prithee, has Phronesium been brought to bed?
ASTAPHIUM
She has been delivered of a very fine boy.
STRATOPHANES
Is it like me at all?
ASTAPHIUM
Do you ask the question? Why, the moment it was born, it asked for a sabre and shield for itself.
STRATOPHANES
It’s my own; I know it at once from the proofs.
ASTAPHIUM
Indeed it is extremely like you.
STRATOPHANES
Ye Gods above! Is it of full growth already? Has it already chosen some army which it intends to plunder?
ASTAPHIUM
Why really, it was only born five days ago.
STRATOPHANES
What then, after it was born? After so many days, i’ faith, something really ought by this time to have been done. What business had it to leave the womb before it could go forth to battle?
ASTAPHIUM
Follow me, and wish her joy, and congratulate her.
STRATOPHANES
I follow.
(They move to the other side of the stage.)
PHRONESIUM
(in a faint voice.)
Prithee, where is she who has left me here and forsaken me?
ASTAPHIUM
I’m here; I’m bringing you Stratophanes, so much longed for by you.
PHRONESIUM
Prithee, where is he?
STRATOPHANES
(going close to the couch.)
Mars, on his arrival from abroad, salutes Neriene his spouse[*]. Since you’ve well got over it, and since you’ve been blest with offspring, I congratulate you in that you have given birth to a great glory to me and to yourself.
PHRONESIUM
Welcome to you, you who have almost deprived me of life and light;
and who have, for your own gratification, centred in my body the cause of great anguish, with the pangs of which I’m even now dreadfully afflicted.
STRATOPHANES
Well, well; not to your misfortune, my love, do these pains befall you. You’ve brought forth a son who’ll be filling your house with plunder.

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