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Stop; on the contrary, it shall be uncomfortable.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
she is very sorrowful; this doesn’t quite please me, but I’ll speak to her.
Tell me, my wife, what is it amiss with you?
PENICULUS
The pretty fellow’s soothing you.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Can’t you cease being annoying to me? Did I address you?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Take yourself off—
away with your caresses from me.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Why are you offended with me?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
You ought to know.
PENICULUS
The rascal knows, but he pretends not to know.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Has any one of the servants done amiss? Do either the maid or the men-servants give you saucy answers? Speak out; it shan’t be done with impunity.
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THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
You are trifling.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Surely you are angry at some one of the domestics?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
You are trifling.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Are you angry with me at all events?
THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Now you are not trifling.
MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
I’ faith, I haven’t done wrong in anything.
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THE WIFE OF MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Ah! now you are trifling again.
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MENAECHMUS of Epidamnus.
Wife, what’s the matter?
