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Why should I rejoice?
ERGASILUS
Because I bid you; come now, rejoice.
HEGIO
I’ faith, my sorrows exceed my rejoicings.
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ERGASILUS
’Tis not so, as you shall find; I’ll at once drive away every spot of sorrowEvery spot of sorrow: He alludes, figuratively, to the art of the fuller or scourer, in taking the spots out of soiled garments. from your body. Rejoice without restraint.
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HEGIO
I do rejoice, although I don’t at all know why I should rejoice.
ERGASILUS
You do rightly; now order—
ERGASILUS
A large fire to be made.
ERGASILUS
So I say, that a huge one it must be.
HEGIO
What, you vulture, do you suppose that for your sake I’m going to set my house on fire?
ERGASILUS
Don’t be angry. Will you order, or will you not order, the pots to be put on, and the saucepans to be washed out, the bacon and the dainties to be made warm in the heated cooking-stoves, another one, too, to go purchase the fish?
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HEGIO
This fellow’s dreaming while awake.
ERGASILUS
Another to buy pork, and lamb, and pullets.
HEGIO
You understand how to feed well, if you had the means.
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ERGASILUS
Gammons of bacon, too, and lampreys, spring pickled tunny-fish, mackerel, and sting-ray; large fish, too, and soft cheese.
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HEGIO
You will have more opportunity, Ergasilus, here at my house, of talking about these things than of eating them.
ERGASILUS
Do you suppose that I’m saying this on my own account?
HEGIO
You will neither be eating nothing here to-day, nor yet much more than usual, so don’t you be mistaken.
Do you then bring an appetite to my house for your every-day fare.
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