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DAMOETAS
We know who once, and in what shrine with you—
the he-goats looked aside—the light nymphs laughed—
MENALCAS
Ay, then, I warrant, when they saw me slash
micon's young vines and trees with spiteful hook.
DAMOETAS
Or here by these old beeches, when you broke
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the bow and arrows of Damon; for you chafed
when first you saw them given to the boy,
cross-grained Menalcas, ay, and had you not
done him some mischief, would have chafed to death.
MENALCAS
With thieves so daring, what can masters do?
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Did I not see you, rogue, in ambush lie
for Damon's goat, while loud Lycisca barked?
And when I cried, “Where is he off to now?
Gather your flock together, Tityrus,”
you hid behind the sedges.
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whom I had conquered still to keep the goat.
Which in the piping-match my pipe had won!
You may not know it, but the goat was mine.
MENALCAS
You out-pipe him? when had you ever pipe
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