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My intentions, indeed, expect so; how it falls out, is in the hands of the Gods.
LYDUS
Will you be having a mistress?
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PISTOCLERUS
When you see, then you’ll know.
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LYDUS
Aye, but you shall not have one, and I won’t allow it. Go back again home.
PISTOCLERUS
Do leave me alone, Lydus, and beware of mischiefBeware of mischief: This is a threat of vengeance if Lydus presumes to interfere any further..
LYDUS
What? Beware of mischief?
O yawning gulf, where art thou now? How gladly would I avail myself of thee!
Already have I lived far longer than I could have wished.
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’Twere much better now to have once existed than to be living still.
That any pupil should thus threaten his tutor!
PISTOCLERUS
My years are now advanced beyond your tutorship.
LYDUS
I want no pupils for me with heated bloodWith heated blood: Plenus sanguinis. Literally, full of blood..
An up-grown one may harass me thus devoid of strength.
PISTOCLERUS
As I guess, I shall become a Hercules, and you a LinusYou a Linus: Linus instructed Hercules in music, and was slain by his scholar with his musical instrument..
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LYDUS
I’ faith, I fear more that through your goings-on I shall become a PhœnixBecome a Phœnix: Phœnix was the preceptor who attended Achilles to the Siege of Troy, and brought the account of his death to his father Peleus., and have to tell the news to your father that you are dead.
PISTOCLERUS
Enough of these stories.
LYDUS
This youth is lost to shameIs lost to shame: Hic vereri perdidit. Literally, He has lost how to be ashamed.;
the man’s ruined. And does it then recur to you that you have a father?
PISTOCLERUS
Am I your servant, or you mine?
LYDUS
By my troth, you made an exchange not desirable for that age of yours,
