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Bring that fellow along. If he doesn’t follow, drag him, lifted on highLifted on high: He means, take him in your arms, or hoist him on your shoulders., out of doors.
PERIPLECOMENUS
Make him to be between heaven and earth; cut him in pieces.
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PYRGOPOLINICES
By my troth, I do entreat you, Periplecomenus.
PERIPLECOMENUS
By my troth, you do entreat in vain. Take care, Cario, that that knife of yours is very sharp.
CARIO
Why, it’s already longing to rip up the stomach of this letcher. I’ll make his entrails hang just as a bauble hangs from a baby’s neck.
PYRGOPOLINICES
I’m a dead man.
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PERIPLECOMENUS
Not yet; you say so too soon.
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CARIO
Shall I have at this fellow now?
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PERIPLECOMENUS
Aye,—but first let him be thrashed with cudgels.
CARIO
True, right lustily.
PERIPLECOMENUS
Why have you dared, you disgraceful fellow, to seduce another man’s wife?
PYRGOPOLINICES
So may the Gods bless me, she came to me of her own accord.
PERIPLECOMENUS
It’s a lie. Lay on.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Stay, while I tell—
PERIPLECOMENUS
Why are you hesitating?
PYRGOPOLINICES
Will you not let me speak?
PERIPLECOMENUS
Speak, then.
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PYRGOPOLINICES
I was entreated to come here.
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PERIPLECOMENUS
How did you dare? There’s for you, take that.
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PYRGOPOLINICES
O! O! I’ve had enough. Prithee, now.
