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[Textpart 1]
What’s the matter with you?
THEUROPIDES
You have deceived me.
THEUROPIDES
You’ve wiped me clean You’ve wiped me clean: Emungo, to wipe the nose for a person, also meant to cheat or impose upon him; probably, by reason of the state of helplessness it implied in the party who was so treated..
TRANIO
Consider, please, if it wasn’t well done; is your nose running still?
THEUROPIDES
Aye, all my brains besides have you been wiping out of my head as well. For all your villanies I have discovered from their very roots; and not from the roots, indeed, i’ faith, but even from beneath the very roots.
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Never this day, by my troth, will you have planned all this without being punished.
I shall at once, you villain, order fire and faggots Order fire and faggots: Though a suppliant could not be removed from the altar by force, still it was allowable to burn him away, by surrounding him with fire. to be placed around you.
TRANIO
Don’t do it; for it’s my way to be sweeter boiled than roasted.
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THEUROPIDES
Upon my faith, I’ll make an example of you.
TRANIO
Because I please you, you select me for an example.
THEUROPIDES
Say now: what kind of a person did I leave my son, when I went away from here?
TRANIO
One with feet and hands, with fingers, ears, eyes, and lips.
THEUROPIDES
I asked you something else than that.
TRANIO
For that reason I now answer you something else.
But look, I see Callidamates, the friend of your son, coming this way. Deal with me in his presence, if you want anything
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[Textpart 2]
When I had buried all drowsiness Buried all drowsiness: Generally we hear of a person being buried in sleep; but Callidamates considers that a drunkard, when he awakes from his sleep, buries slumber. It is not unlike the words of Shakspeare, in Macbeth: Macbeth doth murder sleep!, and slept off the debauch, Philolaches told me that his father had arrived here from abroad; in what a way too his servant had imposed upon the man on his arrival;
CALLIDAMATES
he said that he was afraid to come into his presence. Now of our company I am deputed sole ambassador, to obtain peace from his father. And look, most opportunely here he is. (Accosting THEUROPIDES.) I wish you health, Theuropides, and am glad that you’ve got back safe from abroad. You must dine here with us to-day. Do so.
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THEUROPIDES
Callidamates, may the Gods bless you. For your dinner I offer you my thanks.
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CALLIDAMATES
Will you come then?
