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PHILOCOMASIUM
I, who arrived from Athens yesterday evening at Ephesus,
with my lover, a young man of Athens?
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what business have you here in Ephesus?
PHILOCOMASIUM
I had heard that my own twin-sister is here in Ephesus; I came here to look for her.
SCELEDRUS
You’re a good-for-nothing woman.
PHILOCOMASIUM
Yes, i’ faith, I am a very foolish one to be parleying with you fellows. I am going.
SCELEDRUS
I won’t let you go.
SCELEDRUS
You are discovered in the fact.
PHILOCOMASIUM
But my hands shall just now sound again against your cheek, if you don’t let me go.
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SCELEDRUS
Why the plague are you standing idle? Why don’t you hold her on the other side?
PALAESTRIO
I don’t choose to bring the business down upon my back. How do I know but that this is not Philocomasium, but is some other female that resembles her?
PHILOCOMASIUM
Will you let me go, or will you not let me go?
SCELEDRUS
No; by force and against your will, in spite of you,
I’ll drag you home, unless you’ll go of your own accord.
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PHILOCOMASIUM
This is my lodging here abroadLodging here abroad: Hosticum domicilium, my lodging when abroad. Hostis originally meant merely a foreigner; whereas its later signification was an enemy., at Athens is my home.
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