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[Textpart 2]
Out upon you!
TRANIO
By heavens! ’twas ill done.
THEUROPIDES
What is the matter?
TRANIO
It cannot be expressed, how shocking and dreadful a mischief you’ve been guilty of.
TRANIO
Take to flight, I beseech you, and get away from the house. Fly in this direction, fly closer to me. (He runs to wards TRANIO.) What, did you touch the door?
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THEUROPIDES
How could I knock, if I didn’t touch it?
TRANIO
By all that’s holy, you’ve been the death—
THEUROPIDES
Of what person?
TRANIO
Of all your family.
THEUROPIDES
May the Gods and Goddesses confound you with that omen.
TRANIO
I’m afraid that you can’t make satisfaction for yourself and them.
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THEUROPIDES
For what reason, or what new affair is this that you thus suddenly bring me news of?
TRANIO
And (whispering) hark you, prithee, do bid those people to move away from here.
THEUROPIDES
Move away from here.
TRANIO
Don’t you touch the house. Touch you the ground Touch you the ground: The ancients were in the habit of reverentially touching the earth, when engaged in any affairs that related to the dead or the infernal Deities. as well. (Exeunt the ATTENDANTS.)
THEUROPIDES
I’ faith, prithee, do speak out now.
TRANIO
Because it is now seven months that not a person has set foot within this house, and since we once for all left it.
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THEUROPIDES
Tell me, why so?
