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PALAESTRIO
And tell her, too, do you hear, cleverly and correctly, what has passed.
MILPHIDIPPA
So that her very heart may leap for joy.Part of line 1088 in the Latin.
PALAESTRIO
If Philocomasium is there, tell her to pass through into our house; that the Captain here.
MILPHIDIPPA
She is there with my mistress for, on the sly, they have been overhearingOverhearing: Probably at the upper window, next door. this conversation.
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PALAESTRIO
’Twas cleverly done; here after they will take their cue the more readily from this conversation.
MILPHIDIPPA
You are delaying me. I’m off.
PALAESTRIO
I’m not delaying you, nor touching you, norNor touching you, nor: This is an instance of Aposiopesis. He is about to say something rude, but checks himself.—I’m mum.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Bid her make haste to come out here; we’ll give our first attention to this matter especially. (MILPHIDIPPA goes into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)
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What do you advise me now to do, Palaestrio,
PYRGOPOLINICES
about my mistress? For this lady can by no means be received into my house before I have sent the other away.
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PALAESTRIO
Why consult me what you are to do? So far as I am concerned, I have told you by what method that can be effected in the gentlest manner. The gold trinkets and female clothing with which you have furnished her, let her keep it all for herself: let her take it, be off, and carry it away:
tell her that it is high time for her to go home; say that her twin-sister and her mother are come, in company with whom she may go straight home.
PYRGOPOLINICES
How do you know that they are here?
PALAESTRIO
Because, with my own eyes, I’ve seen her sister here.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Have you met her?
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PALAESTRIO
I have met her.
PYRGOPOLINICES
And did she seem a brisk wench?
PALAESTRIO
You are wishing to have everything.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Where did the sister say her mother was?
