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Why look then, present him with me.
AGORASTOCLES
Go and be hanged!
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MILPHIO
But tell me seriously, do you wish to present him with a plague?
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AGORASTOCLES
I should like it.
MILPHIO
Well then, present him with this selfsame me; I’d cause him to be having both a mischief and a plague.
AGORASTOCLES
You are joking.
MILPHIO
Should you like this very day, without risk to yourself, to make her free To make her free: Tuam libertam. Your freed-woman; you being the one to give her her liberty.?
AGORASTOCLES
I should like it, Milphio.
MILPHIO
I’ll manage for you to make her so. You have indoors three hundred golden Philippean pieces Philippean pieces: The Philippean piece had the head of Philip of Macedon on it, and was in value about two guineas of our money..
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AGORASTOCLES
Six hundred even.
MILPHIO
Three hundred are enough.
AGORASTOCLES
To do what with them?
MILPHIO
Hold your peace. This day I’ll make you a present of the Procurer, whole, with all his household.
MILPHIO
You shall soon know.
Collybiscus, your bailiff, is in the city just now. The Procurer doesn’t know him. Do you fully understand?
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AGORASTOCLES
I’ faith, I understand that; but what you are driving at I know not.
AGORASTOCLES
Not I, faith.
MILPHIO
But I’ll soon let you know. The gold shall be given him, for him to take to the Procurer,
