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unless they oppose him, unless they abuse him, unless they are found ungrateful to him who has been kind.
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LEMNISELENE
I’ troth, your kindnesses command me to pay obedience to your commands.
TOXILUS
I clearly am your patron, who paid the money for you to that man (pointing to DORDALUS.) in return for that, I choose that he shall be made sport of.
LEMNISELENE
For my part, I’ll do my utmost.
DORDALUS
For sure, these persons are consulting to do something, I know not what, to injure me.
TOXILUS
What do you say?
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SAGARISTIO
Is this person here, Dordalus the Procurer, who deals in free women? Is this he who was formerly st stalwart?
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DORDALUS
What means this? (PAEGNIUM strikes him.) Oh, oh! he has given me a slap in the face! I’ll do you a mischief.
TOXILUS
But we have done you one, and shall do it again too.
DORDALUS
Oh, oh! he’s pinching my behind.
PAEGNIUM
Of course; it has been many a time twitched before this.
DORDALUS
Are you still prating, you bit of a boy?
LEMNISELENE
My patron, do, there’s a dear, come in-doors to dinner.
DORDALUS
My lump of laziness, are you now scoffing at me?
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LEMNISELENE
What, because I invite you to enjoy yourself?
DORDALUS
I don’t want to enjoy myself.
TOXILUS
How then? The six hundred didrachms, how are they? What disturbances they do cause.
DORDALUS
I’m utterly undone! They understand full well how to return the compliment to an enemy.
