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don’t you enter my house; off with yourself to the mill.
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EPIDICUS
You easily say that without risk and concern, and with a gay heart. I know our floggers; I feel the pain when I’m beaten.
STRATIPPOCLES
How say you now? Will you suffer me to destroy myself?
EPIDICUS
Don’t do that. I’ll cope with this peril and bold attempt in preference.
STRATIPPOCLES
Now you please me; now do I commend you.
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EPIDICUS
I’ll submit to this in any way that’s pleasing to you.
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STRATIPPOCLES
What then is to be done about this music-girl?
EPIDICUS
Some method shall be found out; by some means I’ll disengage myself; some way I shall get extricated.
STRATIPPOCLES
You are full of scheming; I know you of old.
EPIDICUS
There is a rich Captain of Eubœa Captain of Eubœa: The Captain is elsewhere called a Rhodian. Probably it is meant that Rhodes was the place of his birth, and the island of Eubœa that of his residence., abounding in plenty of gold, who, when he knows that that one was bought for you, and that this other one has been brought here,
will forthwith be entreating you, of his own accord, to transfer that other one to him. But where is she whom you have brought with you?
STRATIPPOCLES
I shall have her here just now.
CHAERIBULUS
What are we now doing here?
STRATIPPOCLES
Let’s go in-doors here at your house, that, for the present, we may pass this day merrily.
EPIDICUS
Go in-doors; I’ll now call I’ll now call: Echard’s adaptation of these two lines is so quaint, that it is worth transcribing. In the meantime must I have a committee of the whole house, to consider of ways and means for the raising supplies to carry on this vigorous war. a council in my heart to adopt measures about this money business,
against whom, in especial, war is to be declared, and out of whom I’m to get the money. Epidicus, consider what you are to do; thus suddenly has this business been thrown upon you. But now you must not be slumbering, nor have you any leisure for delay. Now must you be daring! ’Tis my fixed determination to lay siege to the old man. I’ll go indoors; I’ll tell the young man, my master’s son,
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not to walk abroad here, or come anywhere in the way of the old gentleman.
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