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Cistellaria; or, The Casket - Titus Maccius Plautus · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Cistelaria or the Casket by Titus Machius Plautus,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Henry Thomas Riley. This is a Librox recording
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  Speaker 1: God of Help who Speaks the Prologue read by Todd.
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  Speaker 2: Demo Foe, a merchant of Lemnos, read by Laurie Wilson.
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  Speaker 3: Alces Marcus, a young man of Sicion read by Celton.
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  Speaker 4: Lee, Lampodiscus, servant to Demifoe read by our Mapstone.
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  Speaker 5: Fenostrata, wife of Demipho read by.
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  Speaker 6: Sonya Selenium their daughter beloved by alces A Marcus read
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  Speaker 6: by shrimp Fish.
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  Speaker 7: Melanus a procurus read by val Roth.
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  Speaker 8: Alisca, her servant written by Agnes Robert Baer.
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  Speaker 9: A procurus, the mother of Gymnasium read by Wendy Katziller.
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  Speaker 10: Gymnasium a courtesan read by Ropsilina.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Inco Scene Sichion in Peloponnessus for
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  Speaker 1: the houses of Demifo, Selenium, and the Father of Alcesimachus
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  Speaker 1: Act one, Scene one and a Selenium Gymnasium, and procureus
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  Speaker 1: from the house of Selenium.
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  Speaker 6: Inasmuch as hitherto I have loved you and have deemed
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  Speaker 6: you to be my friend, my dear Gymnasium, and your
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  Speaker 6: mother as well. So have you shown it to me
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  Speaker 6: this day, both you and she. If you had been
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  Speaker 6: my own sister, How more you two could possibly have
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  Speaker 6: held me in esteem? I know not, but according as
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  Speaker 6: is my way of thinking, I can see if it
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  Speaker 6: could not possibly be such ready assistance all other things
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  Speaker 6: laid aside? Have you given me? For this reason? Do
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  Speaker 6: I love you? And for it a vast obligation have
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  Speaker 6: you both conferred upon me.
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  Speaker 10: In faith at such a price as this. Indeed, it's
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  Speaker 10: easy for us to give you our attendance and to
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  Speaker 10: do you good offices. So handsomely and so elegantly have
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  Speaker 10: you entertained us at breakfast at your house, as we
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  Speaker 10: shall ever remember.
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  Speaker 6: It has been done with hearty good will by me,
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  Speaker 6: and will be done to get those things which I
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  Speaker 6: shall think you are desirous of.
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  Speaker 9: As the man said, who was borne by a prospering
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  Speaker 9: breeze on a calm sea, I rejoice that we came
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  Speaker 9: to you in such a delightful manner have we been
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  Speaker 9: here this day? Received? Nor except in the management, was
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  Speaker 9: there anything there at your house? But what pleased me?
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  Speaker 6: How so prithy too?
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  Speaker 9: Seldom did the servant give me something to drink, and
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  Speaker 9: as it was, it clouded the color of the wine.
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  Speaker 10: Pray, is that becoming to be mentioned here?
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  Speaker 9: It's both right and proper. There's no other person here
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  Speaker 9: with reason?
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  Speaker 6: Do I love you both, who esteem and honor me in.
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  Speaker 9: Faith, my dear selenium. It befits this class to be
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  Speaker 9: kindly disposed among themselves and carefully to keep up friendships.
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  Speaker 9: When you see these matrons of elevated rank, born of
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  Speaker 9: the noblest families, how they value friendship and how carefully
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  Speaker 9: they keep it united between themselves. If we do that
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  Speaker 9: same thing, if we imitate the same example, still as
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  Speaker 9: it is with difficulty, do we exist with their extreme
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  Speaker 9: dislike of their own enjoyments? They would have us to
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  Speaker 9: be in want in resources of our own. They would
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  Speaker 9: have us not to possess any power, and to stand
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  Speaker 9: in need of them in all matters, that we may
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  Speaker 9: be their humble servants. If you wait upon them, you'd
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  Speaker 9: rather be giving your room than your company, so very
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  Speaker 9: kind are they before the world to our class in private,
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  Speaker 9: if ever there's the opportunity underhandedly, they pour cold water
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  Speaker 9: upon us. They declare that we are in the habit
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  Speaker 9: of having commerce with their husbands. They say that we
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  Speaker 9: are their supplanters. They attempt to crush us because we
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  Speaker 9: are the free daughters of slaves. Both I and your
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  Speaker 9: mother we became courtesans. She brought up yourself, and I.
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  Speaker 1: This girl pointing to gymnasium.
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  Speaker 9: By chance, fathers, nor yet, for the sake of vanity
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  Speaker 9: have I driven her to the calling of a courtesan,
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  Speaker 9: but that I mightn't starve.
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  Speaker 6: But it had been better to give her marriage to
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  Speaker 6: a husband in preference.
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  Speaker 9: Hey day, now, surely, faith, she's married to a husband.
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  Speaker 9: Every day she has both been married to one. Today
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  Speaker 9: she'll be marrying again tonight. I've never allowed her to
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  Speaker 9: go to bed a widow, for if she weren't to
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  Speaker 9: be marrying, the household would perish with doleful famine.
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  Speaker 10: It behooves me, mother, to be just as you wish
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  Speaker 10: I should be a troth.
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  Speaker 9: I don't regret it if you will prove such as
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  Speaker 9: you say you'll be. For if indeed you shall be
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  Speaker 9: such as I intend you'll never be a HECHAILI in
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  Speaker 9: your old age, and you'll ever keep that same tender
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  Speaker 9: age which you now have, And you'll prove a loss
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  Speaker 9: to many and a prophet to myself full oft without
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  Speaker 9: any outlay of my own.
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  Speaker 10: May the gods grunt it?
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  Speaker 9: Without your own energies. The gods cannot possibly do anything
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  Speaker 9: in this.
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  Speaker 10: In faith for my own part, I'll zealously devote my
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  Speaker 10: energies to it. But what mean you amid this conversation?
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  Speaker 10: Apple of my eye? My own selenium? Never did I
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  Speaker 10: see you more sad, Prithee, Do tell me why does
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  Speaker 10: mirth so shun you? And you are not so neat
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  Speaker 10: as you usually are?
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  Speaker 1: Silenium sighs?
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  Speaker 10: Do look at that? Please? How deep a sigh she heaved?
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  Speaker 10: You are pale too? Tell us both what's the matter
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  Speaker 10: with you and in what you want our aid, so
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  Speaker 10: that we may know. Prithee, don't buy your tears be
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  Speaker 10: causing me anxiety.
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  Speaker 6: My dear Gymnasium. I'm sadly affected, I feel ill, I
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  Speaker 6: am shockingly distressed, I am pained in spirits, I feel
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  Speaker 6: pain in my eyes, I am in pain from faintness.
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  Speaker 6: What shall I say, but that my own folly drives
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  Speaker 6: me to sadness?
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  Speaker 10: Dike you care, then, that you have your folly entombed
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  Speaker 10: in that very same place from which it takes its rise?
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  Speaker 6: What shall I do?
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  Speaker 10: Hide it in darkness, in the very deepest recesses of
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  Speaker 10: your breast. Take you care and have it so that
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  Speaker 10: you yourself are alone sensible of your own folly, without any
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  Speaker 10: other witnesses.
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  Speaker 6: But I've got the heartache.
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  Speaker 10: Why so for what reason have you the heartache? Prithee?
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  Speaker 10: Tell me a thing that I neither have nor any
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  Speaker 10: other woman whatever. According as the men say.
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  Speaker 6: If there's any heart to feel pain, it does feel pain.
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  Speaker 6: But if there isn't, still this pains me.
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  Speaker 1: Here pointing to her left side.
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  Speaker 9: This woman's in love.
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  Speaker 10: Come now to begin to be in love? Is it bitter, prithee?
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  Speaker 9: Why troth? Love is most fruitful both in honey and
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  Speaker 9: in gall inasmuch as it produces sweetness in a mere taste,
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  Speaker 9: but causes bitterness even to repletion.
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  Speaker 6: Of that character? Is the malady that afflicts me, my
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  Speaker 6: dear Gymnasium.
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  Speaker 10: Love is full of treachery.
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  Speaker 6: He's taking his spoils of me.
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  Speaker 10: Then be of good courage, you'll get the better of
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  Speaker 10: this malady.
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  Speaker 6: I trust it will be so. If the physician comes
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  Speaker 6: that can administer the medicine to this malady.
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  Speaker 10: He will come.
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  Speaker 6: A hard expression is that to one in love, he
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  Speaker 6: will come unless he does come. But by my own
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  Speaker 6: fault and foolishness, am I wretched creature more afflicted because
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  Speaker 6: for him alone have I longed for myself with whom
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  Speaker 6: to pass my life.
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  Speaker 9: That is more suitable to a married woman. My dear
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  Speaker 9: selanium to love but one, and with him to pass
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  Speaker 9: her life, to whom she has once been married. But indeed,
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  Speaker 9: a courtesan is most like a flourishing city. She cannot
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  Speaker 9: alone increase her fortunes without a multitude of men.
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  Speaker 6: I want you to give heed to this matter, the
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  Speaker 6: thing on account of which you have been sent for
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  Speaker 6: to me. I'll disclose now. My mother, because I don't
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  Speaker 6: wish myself to be called a courtesan, complied with my
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  Speaker 6: desire in that matter. She indulged myself, who have been
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  Speaker 6: obedient to her, to allow me to live with him alone,
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  Speaker 6: whom I so ardently loved.
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  Speaker 9: If faith she acted foolishly, But look, have you ever
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  Speaker 9: kept company with any man?
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  Speaker 6: With no one, indeed except Alcus sim Marcus, nor has
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  Speaker 6: any other person whatever committed an infringement on my.
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  Speaker 9: Chastity, Prithee, By what means did this man gain your
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  Speaker 9: good graces?
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  Speaker 6: At the festival of Bacchus, my mother took me to
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  Speaker 6: see the procession. While I was returned home from a
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  Speaker 6: secret lookout, he secretly traced me even to the door.
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  Speaker 6: After that, he insinuated himself into the friendship of my
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  Speaker 6: mother and myself as well, by endearments, presents, and gifts.
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  Speaker 9: I should like a man of that sort to be
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  Speaker 9: offered me. How i'd work him?
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  Speaker 6: What need is there? Rewords? Through intercourse? I, on the
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  Speaker 6: other hand, began to love him and he myself.
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  Speaker 9: Oh my dear selenium, what's the matter you ought to
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  Speaker 9: pretend to be in love? For if you fall in
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  Speaker 9: love at once, you'll be much better consulting the interests
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  Speaker 9: of him whom you love, than your own.
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  Speaker 6: But in solemn form, he took an oath before my
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  Speaker 6: mother that he would take me as his wife. Now
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  Speaker 6: another woman is about to be taken home by him,
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  Speaker 6: a Lemnian lady his relation, who is living here hard.
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  Speaker 1: By pointing to Demifo's house.
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  Speaker 6: For his father has compelled him. Now, my mother is
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  Speaker 6: enraged with me because I didn't return home to her
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  Speaker 6: when I came to know of this matter, that he
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  Speaker 6: was about to take another as his wife.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing's unfair in love.
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  Speaker 6: Now I entreat you that you'll.
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  Speaker 1: Let her, pointing to Gymnasium.
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  Speaker 6: Be here only for the next three days and keep
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  Speaker 6: house for me, though I've been sent for to my
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  Speaker 6: mother's house.
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  Speaker 9: Although this will be a troublesome three days for me,
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  Speaker 9: and you'll be causing me a loss, I'll do so.
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  Speaker 6: You act kindly and like a friend. But you, my
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  Speaker 6: dear Gymnasium, if in my absence Elcus and Marcus shall come,
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  Speaker 6: don't you chide him roughly? However he has deserved of myself.
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  Speaker 6: Still he has my affections. But prithee, act gently so
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  Speaker 6: that you mayn't say anything that may cause him pain.
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  Speaker 1: Take the keys, giving them to her.
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  Speaker 6: If you have need to take out anything for you,
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  Speaker 6: take it out. I wish to.
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  Speaker 1: Go Gymnasium weeping.
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  Speaker 10: How have you drawn tears from me?
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  Speaker 6: My dear Gymnasium. Kindly farewell, take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 10: There's a dear prithee, will you go in this de chebille.
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  Speaker 1: Pointing to her dress.
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  Speaker 6: It's right that such neglect should attend upon my prospects.
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  Speaker 6: Thus disarranged at.
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  Speaker 10: Least to lift up that outer garment, let.
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  Speaker 6: It be dragged, while I myself am being dragged down.
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  Speaker 10: Since so it pleases you, fare you well and prosper.
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  Speaker 1: If I could, I would exit.
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  Speaker 10: Mother, Do you wish anything of me? Before I go indoors?
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  Speaker 10: Upon my faith to me, she does seem to be
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  Speaker 10: in love.
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  Speaker 9: For this reason, then it is that I'm repeatedly dinning
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  Speaker 9: it into your ears not to be in love with
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  Speaker 9: any man? Go indoors? Do you wish anything of me
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  Speaker 9: that you may fare well?
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  Speaker 10: Fare you well?
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  Speaker 1: Gymnasium goes into the house of Selenium scene to the
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  Speaker 1: procure us alone to the audience.
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  Speaker 9: It's the same fault with myself as with a great
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  Speaker 9: part of us women who are following this calling, who,
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  Speaker 9: as soon as ever we have got our load of food,
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  Speaker 9: are forthwith full of talk more than is enough? Do
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  Speaker 9: we say? Why myself now? Inasmuch as I'm filled to
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  Speaker 9: my heart's content, and because I've charged myself quite full
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  Speaker 9: of the choicest of wine, it pleases me to use
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  Speaker 9: my tongue more at freedom. To my misfortune, I can't
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  Speaker 9: keep silent on that which it were necessary to be
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  Speaker 9: silent upon. But once upon a time, that girl who
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  Speaker 9: has gone hence in tears from a lane I carried
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  Speaker 9: off a little child exposed. There is here a certain
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  Speaker 9: youth of the highest rank, his father of a very
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  Speaker 9: high family, is living at sision. He is dying desperately
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  Speaker 9: in love for this young woman who has just now
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  Speaker 9: gone hence in tears. On the other hand, she is
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  Speaker 9: smitten with love. I made a present of her to
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  Speaker 9: my friend, this courtesan, who had often made mention of
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  Speaker 9: it to me, that somewhere I must find for her
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  Speaker 9: a boy or a girl just born, that she herself
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  Speaker 9: might pass it off as her own, as soon as
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  Speaker 9: ever the opportunity befell me. I immediately granted her request
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  Speaker 9: in that which she had asked of me. After she
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  Speaker 9: had received this female child from me, at once she
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  Speaker 9: was brought to bed of the same female child which
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  Speaker 9: she had received for me, without the aid of a
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  Speaker 9: midwife and without pain, just as other women bring forth
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  Speaker 9: who seek a trouble to themselves. But she said that
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  Speaker 9: her lover was a foreigner, and that by reason of
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  Speaker 9: that circumstance she was palming it off. This we two
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  Speaker 9: alone are aware of, I who gave the child to her,
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  Speaker 9: and she who received it from me.
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  Speaker 1: To the audience except.
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  Speaker 9: Yourselves, indeed, thus was the affair managed. If any occasion
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  Speaker 9: should arise, I wish you to remember this circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: I'm off home exit scene three, And to the God
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  Speaker 1: of Help, he speaks the prologue, the God of Help
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  Speaker 1: to the audience.
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  Speaker 11: This old woman is both a much talker and a
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  Speaker 11: much tippler. Isn't it the fact that she has hardly
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  Speaker 11: left room who to a divinity for him to speak
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  Speaker 11: so much as she forestalled him and talking about the
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  Speaker 11: substitution of this girl. But if she had held her
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  Speaker 11: tongue still, I was about to mention it a god
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  Speaker 11: who could do it better. For my name is Help.
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  Speaker 11: Now to the audience, lend your attention that I may
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  Speaker 11: clearly explain this plot to you sometimes. Since at Sission
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  Speaker 11: there was the festival of Bacchus, a merchant of Lemnos
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  Speaker 11: came hither to the games, and he, an ungovernable young man,
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  Speaker 11: ravished a maiden in the dark in the street at
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  Speaker 11: the dead of night. He, as he knew that he
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  Speaker 11: was deserving of a heavy punishment, at once found shelter
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  Speaker 11: with his heels and made off for Lemnos, where he
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  Speaker 11: then lived. She whom he had ravished the ninth ensuing
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  Speaker 11: month completed, brought forth a daughter here. Said she did
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  Speaker 11: not know the person guilty of this deed who he was.
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  Speaker 11: She made the servant of her father partaker of her
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  Speaker 11: counsel's and gave to that servant the child to be
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  Speaker 11: exposed to death. He exposed it. This woman took up
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  Speaker 11: the child. That servant who had exposed it secretly took
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  Speaker 11: note whither or to what house she carried away the child.
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  Speaker 11: As you have heard her own self confess, she gave
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  Speaker 11: this child to the courtesan Mollienus, and she brought her
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  Speaker 11: up as being her own daughter, honestly and virtuously. But
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  Speaker 11: then this Lemnian married a neighbor there his relation for
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  Speaker 11: his wife. She departed this life there she was compliant
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  Speaker 11: to her husband, after he had performed the due obsequities
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  Speaker 11: to his wife. At once he removed hither. Here he
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  Speaker 11: married for his wife that same woman who formerly when
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  Speaker 11: a maid. He ravished. When he understood that it was
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  Speaker 11: she whom he had ravished, she told him that in
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  Speaker 11: consequence of the violation, she had brought forth a daughter,
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  Speaker 11: and had at once given her to a servant to
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  Speaker 11: be exposed. He forthwith ordered the same servant to make
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  Speaker 11: inquiries if anyhow he could discover who had taken it up.
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  Speaker 11: Now to that task is the servant always assiduously devoting
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  Speaker 11: his attention if he can find out that courtesan, whom formerly,
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  Speaker 11: when he himself exposed her, he from his hiding place,
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  Speaker 11: had seen take her up. Now what remains unpaid? I
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  Speaker 11: wished to discharge that my name may be struck out,
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  Speaker 11: so that I mayn't remain a debtor. The young man
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  Speaker 11: is here at Sion. His father is alive with affection.
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  Speaker 11: He distractedly doates upon this exposed girl, who just now
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  Speaker 11: went hence in tears unto her mother. And she loves
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  Speaker 11: him in return, which is the most delightful love of all.
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  Speaker 11: As human matters go, nothing is granted for everlasting. The
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  Speaker 11: father is wishful to give the young man a wife.
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  Speaker 11: When the mother came to know of this, she ordered
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  Speaker 11: her to be sent for home. Thus have these matters
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  Speaker 11: come to pass. Kindly, fear you well, and conquer by
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  Speaker 11: inborn valthor as you have done before. Defend your allies,
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  Speaker 11: both ancient ones and new. Increase resources by your righteous laws.
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  Speaker 11: Destroy your foes, Lord and laurels. Gather that conquered by you.
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  Speaker 11: The poeney may suffer the penalty.
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  Speaker 1: Exit and Act one, Act two of Cistelaria or the
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  Speaker 1: Casket by Titus Machius Plautus, translated by Henry Thomas Riley.
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  Speaker 1: This is a librox recording or libros recordings with the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 1: libros dot org. Act two, Scene one, Enter Alces, Marchis
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  Speaker 1: and Melanis.
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  Speaker 3: I do believe that love was the first to invent
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  Speaker 3: torture among mankind. This conjecture do I form from myself
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  Speaker 3: at home, not to go seek it out of doors.
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  Speaker 3: I who surpass all men exceed them. In the pangs
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  Speaker 3: of my feelings, I'm toss tormented, agitated, goaded world on
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  Speaker 3: the wheel of love. In my misery, I'm deprived of
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  Speaker 3: sense and carried one way, carried another way. I'm torn
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  Speaker 3: and rent asunder such clouded faculties of mind have I
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  Speaker 3: where I am there, I am not where I am
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  Speaker 3: not there? My thoughts are to such a degree, Have
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  Speaker 3: I now all kinds of feelings in me? What I like?
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  Speaker 3: Then all at once I like not the same? So
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: much does love trifle with me? Changing my mind? Drive
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: me pursue, desire and seize for itself, retain tripan and
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: promise what it gives it gives not it deludes me
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: what this moment it has persuaded me, It now dissuades
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: me from what it has dissuaded me from. It now
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: points out to me that same after the manner of
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the sea is it experienced by me? So much does
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: it distract my enamored fee and only in that in
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: my misery I do not sink utterly? Is there any
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: evil removed from me? Thus ruined in such a way?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Has my father detained me these six days running in
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: the country at his house there? Nor has it been
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: allowed me in the meantime to visit my mistress? Isn't
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: this dreadful to relate?
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Are you joking for this reason? Because you've got another
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: wife engaged a rich lady of Lemnos. However, then we
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: are neither of a family, so rich as you are,
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: nor is our wealth so substantial as yours. But still
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: I have no fears that anyone will impeach our oath. You, then,
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: if you shall feel any pain, will know for what
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: reason you do feel pain?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: May the gods confound me.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: Whatever you wish for I desire, it may befall you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: If ever i'll marry that wife which my father has
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: engaged for me and me.
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: If ever I give you my daughter for a wife.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Will you allow me to be forsworn?
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Yes, sent a little more easily than myself, and my
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: affairs to go to ruin, and my daughter to be
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: trifled with be gone. Go seek with her as confidence enough,
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: and your oaths here now with us. Elcesi, Marcus, you've
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: renounced your title to our friendship.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Make trial of me.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: But once I have made that trial full oft which eliment.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Was so made, give her back to me.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: Under new circumstances. I'll use an old proverb. What I
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: have given I wish I have not given. What's left
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: that I shall not give?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Won't you restore her again to me?
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Answer yourself for me.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: You won't restore her?
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: Then you know the whole of my resolution already is.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: That quite resolved upon by you and your heart.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: Why, in fact I'm thinking about something else, Faith, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: don't at present catch these words of yours with my
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: ears not here.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Why what are you doing?
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Thata?
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Do you give heat at once that you may not
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: know what you are doing?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Then so may the gods and goddesses of above and
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: below and of middle rank, And so may Juno the Queen,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: and the daughter of Supreme Jove, And so may Saturn.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: His uncle, I Troth his father.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: And so may Ops the Opulent, his.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Grandam, indeed his mother, brother.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Juno his daughter, and Saturn his uncle Supreme Jove. You
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: are maddening me. It's through you I make these mistakes,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: go on saying, So is it that I'm to know
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: what conclusion you are going to come to?
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: Go on talking? I shall not center back. That's resolved upon.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Why then, so may Jupiter, and so may Juno and
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Saturn to me? So may I don't know what to say?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I know, yes, madam, listen, that you may know my mind.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: May all the deities great and small, and those honored
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: with the platter cause me not surviving to give a
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: kiss this day to Selenium. If I don't this very day,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: murder you and your daughter and myself, and after that,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: with the break of day, if I don't tomorrow kill
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: you both, and indeed, by all the powers, if at
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: the third onset I don't demolish you all, if you
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: don't send her back to me, I've said what I intended.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Farewell goes into his father's house. Melanis to herself.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, he's gone indoors in a rage. What shall I
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: do now? If she comes back to him? Matters be
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: just in the same position when satanity begins to take possession.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: He'll be turning her out of doors when he shall
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: be bringing home this lemnear wife. But still I'll go
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: and follow him. There's necessity for caution lest he in
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: love should be doing some mischief in fine, since with
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: strict justice a poor person's not allowed to contend with
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: the rich one. I'll lose my labor rather than lose
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: my daughter. But who's this that's straight along the street,
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: his directingus course this way?
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Ah?
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Both the other matter do I fear? And this do
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: I dread? So utterly intrepidation and wretched.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I she stands aside seem to enter lamp of discus
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Lampidiscus to himself.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: I'll followed the old woman with my clamor through the
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: streets I've most dreadfully plagued in one multitude of ways.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Has she this day kept guard upon herself and been
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: able to remember nothing? How many alluring things? What advantages
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: I promised her? How many inventions I've applied to her?
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: How many stratagems in questioning her with difficulty? Have I
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: extorted it from her that she should tell me because
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: I promised to give her a cask of wine?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Scene three, Enter Fanostrata from her house fan Strata to herself.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: I seemed just now to be hearing the voice of
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: my servant, Lampetiscus before the house.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Lamp of Discus, stepping forward.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: You are not deaf, mistress, You heard her right?
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: What are you doing here?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: A thing for you to rejoice?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: What's that, Lampidiscus, pointing to the house of Selenium.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: A little while ago I saw a woman coming out
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: of that house.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: There, heard it took up my daughter.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: You have the matter right?
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: What after that?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: I told her in what way I had seen her
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: take up the daughter of my mistress from the hippodrome.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Then she was in a fright.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Melanis apart.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Now my body's at a shudder. My heart is throbbing,
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: for I recollect that from the hippodrome the little female
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: infant was brought to me, and that I brought it
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: up as my own.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Come, pretty, do go on. My soul's longing to hear
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: how the meta proceeded, melanees apart.
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: I hardly wish you couldn't hear.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I proceed saying, this old woman calls you her daughter wrongfully.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: For this woman here is your foster mother, so don't
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: think she is your mother. I'm to take you back
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: and invite you to opulence, where you may be settled
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: in a noble family, where your father may present you
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: with twenty great talents for a portion. For this is
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: not a place where, after the Etrurian mode, you are
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: disgracefully to earn a dairy for yourself by prostitution of
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: your person.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Is she Pray a courtesan who took it up?
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, she was a courtesan. But how it happened, I'll
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: tell you about that master. I was now winning her
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: over to me by my persuasion. The old woman embraced
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: her knees weeping and entreating that she would not forsake her,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: saying that she was her own daughter. And she took
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: a solemn oath to me that she herself had borne
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: her her said, she whom you are in search of,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I gave to a friend of mine to bring her
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: up as her own daughter. And she is alive, said she,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Where is? She immediately said I.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Preserve me God, I don't eat you melayus apart, but
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: me you are undoing.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: You ought to have inquired to whom she gave it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: I did inquire, and she said to the courtesan, melanis,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: melanis apart.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: He has muched my name. I mutter be undone.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: When she mentioned her, I straightway asked where does she live?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Said I take and show me. She has been carried off.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Hence says she to live abroad.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Melayanus apart is.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Sprinkling a little cold water.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Now wherever she has been carried off? Thither will we follow?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Do you trifle in this fashion? You are undone? If
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: E faith you don't disclose this. I is insisted to
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: such a degree that the old woman swore that she
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: would soon inform me.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: But you oughtn't to have let her go.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: She's all safe. But she said that she wished first
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: to meet a certain woman, a friend of hers, with
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: whom this was a matter of interest in common.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure she'll come, Melaynes apart.
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: She'll be discovering me and dadding her own distress to mine.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: Make me acquainted what she now wished me to do.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Go indoors and be of good hunt. If your husband
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: shall come, bid him wait at home, lest he should
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: be required by me if I want him for anything.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: I'm going to run back to the old woman.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Lampadio, pretty, do take care.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: I'll have this matter well managed.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: I trust in the gods and in yourself.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: And I in the same that you now go home.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Canoestrata goes into her house. Melanis coming forward.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Young man, Stay and listen.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: What are you calling to me? Woman?
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: To you?
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: What's the matter for I'm fully engaged.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Melanus pointing to the house of Demipho.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: Who lives there?
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Demipho, my master, it is.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: He, I suppose that is betrothed his daughter with such
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: great wealth to Asissy Marcus.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: It is he himself.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: How now you what other daughter are you people now
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: in search of?
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you not his daughter by his wife, but
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: his wife's daughter.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: What's the middic of the speech.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: By a former woman? I say, my master had a
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: daughter born.
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: Surely just now you said you were in search of
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: the daughter of her who had been talking.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Here her daughter? I am in search of.
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: In what way, then, pray? Is she a former woman
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: who was now his wife?
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Woman? Whoever you are? You weary me with your prating
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: the middle woman whom he had for a wife of her?
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: This maiden was born, that's being given to Alcessimarchus. That
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: wife is dead. Do you understand now?
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: I understand that quite well. But it's this naughty point
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: I'm inquiring about how the first can be the last,
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: the last be the first.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: The fact is this this woman he read before he
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: took her home as his wife. Before that she was pregnant,
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: and before that she gave birth to a daughter. After
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: she gave birth to her, she ordered the infant to
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: be exposed. I myself exposed her. Another woman took her away.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: I was on the lookout. After that. My master married her.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: That girl her daughter, we are now in search of.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Melanus turns aside her head.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Why now, with face upturned, are you looking up towards
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: the heavens.
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: Be off at once, whether you were hastening. I wont
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: to Dane. You understand it now.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: He trove to the deities. I do give thanks for
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: if you had understood me. I do think you would
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: never let me go.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Exit. Melanis to herself.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: No, it's necessary for me to be honest, to whether
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: I will or no. Although I rather not, I find
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: the thing is discovered. Now will I myself lay them
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: under an obligation to be rather than she shall peach
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: upon me. I'll go home, and I'll bring Selenium to
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: her parents.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Exit end of Act two, Act three of Sisterelaria or
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: The Casket by Titus Machius Plautus, translated by Henry Thomas Riley.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: This is a LEEPROX recording or leaprox recordings are in
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information not to volunteer, please
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: visit leapros dot org. Act three, Scene one. ENTI, Melanis,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Selenium and Heliska.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: I've disclosed the whole matter to you. Follow Mysolenium, that
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: you may rather belong to those to whom you ought
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: to belong than be mine, Although against my will, I
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: shall part with you. Still I'll reconcile my mind to
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: consult that which in especial conduces to your.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Benefit, giving her a casket.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: For here in this are the trinkets together with which
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: she who gave you to me formerly brought you to me.
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: That your parents may recognize you the more easily take
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: this casket, Aliska, and then go and knock at that.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Door, pointing to the house of Demipho, say.
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: That I request that some one will come from within.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Make haste quickly, scene too, enter Alcessim Marchus from his
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: father's house with his sword drawn. Alcesse marchis calling aloud.
• 38:00
  Speaker 12: Death, receive me unto thyself a friend and well wisher,
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: to me my mother, to our sorrow, we are.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Undone, as Marchus allowed to himself.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Whether shall I pierce my side.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Here striking his right side or on the left, Melanis
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to Selenium, what's the matter with you, Selenium, pointing, don't.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: You see alcas sim Marcus, he's grasping a sword.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: As Marchus aloud in a frantic manner, What.
• 38:36
  Speaker 12: Art about thou art delaying quit the light of day?
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: Do run and aid him? Pray that he mayn't kill himself.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: They run to assist him, in which Helliska drops the casket.
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: Oh, safety more healthful than my own safety. You now,
• 38:55
  Speaker 12: whether I wish or don't wish alone to cause me
• 38:58
  Speaker 12: to live on it?
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: Were you ready to commit such violence?
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: If not to do with you? To you, I'm dead.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Clasping Selenium in his arms.
• 39:10
  Speaker 13: Her as I hold her, I'm determined not to lose,
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: For by Heaven I am resolved henceforth to have her
• 39:20
  Speaker 13: entirely riveted fast unto me.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Goes to the door of the house and calls.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: Where are you, servants?
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Shut the door with bolts with bars. When I shall
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: have carried her within the threshold.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: He carries Selenium into the house, followed by Helisca. Melane
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Is exclaiming, while wringing her hands.
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: He's gone off. He has carried the damsel away.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: I'll go.
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: I'll at once follow women doors, that he may know
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: of me these same things. If from being angered with me,
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: I can render him pleased.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Goes into the house. End of three act for of
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Cistelaria or the Casket by Titus Machius Plautus, translated by
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Henry Thomas Riley. This is a leap Ros recording or
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: liab Ros recordings from the public domain. For more information
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: not to volunteer, please visit leavrocks dot org. Act for
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: scene one, enter Lampidiscus.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I do believe I never saw a more tormenting old
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: nag than this. What she just now confessed to me?
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Is she to be denying it? But look, I see,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: my mistress.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Why seeing the casket on the ground.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: How's this that this casket is lying here with these trinkets,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: and that I see no other person in the streets.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: I must act the child's parts all stooped to pick
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: up the caskets.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Picks it up and to fano Strata from her house.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: What are you about, Lampadio.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Lampidiscus giving the casket to Fanistrata.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Is this casket from out of our house? Here? I wonder?
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: For I picked it up lying here near the door.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: What news do you bring about the old woman?
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: That there's not one other on earth more wicked? She
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: denies all those things which she just now confessed to me.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Part e fae. For me to allow that old jade
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: to be laughing at me, it's preferable for me to
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: die by any kind of death.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Vanostrata opening the casket.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: You gods, I do enjure you by our trusting you.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Why do you call upon the gods save us? What's
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: the matter?
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: These are the trinkets with which you exposed my little
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: daughter to death?
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Are you in your senses? These certainly are Do you persist?
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: These are they?
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: If any other woman were to speak to me after
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: that fashion, I should say that she was drunk by heaven.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: I'm talking no nonsense, but prithee, whence in the world
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: did these come? Or what deity placed this before our door?
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: As though for a given purpose at a very instant
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: sacred hope comes to my aid.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Scene too, and to Heleisca at a distance from the
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: house of the father of Alcesemarcha's Helliska to herself.
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: Unless the gods give me some aid, I'm utterly undone.
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: What do I know whence I am to seek for
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: aid to such a degree as carelessness possess wretched me
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: in mind, which I sadly fear may be lighting upon
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: my own back. If my mistress knows that I am
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: so negligent as I really am. The casket which I took,
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: and holding my hands here before the door. Who it
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: is I know not, except as I fancy it was
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: dropped by me about this.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Spot looks about on the ground. My good sirs to
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: the audience, my.
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: Kind spectators, do give me information if any one has
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: seen it, if any one has taken it away, or
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: anyone picked it up, and whether in this direction or
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: in that he has taken his departure.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: She pauses for a reply.
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: I am none the wiser for asking these persons or
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: for worrying them. We're always delighted at a woman's mishaps.
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: Now I'll mark if there are any footsteps here? Who
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: if no one passed this way since I went indoors,
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: the casket would be lying here. Why say here it's lost?
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: I guess it's done, for it's all over with unhappy
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: and unlucky me. It's nowhere, and nowhere am I? Thispy's
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  Speaker 8: loss has proved my loss? What still as I've begun?
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  Speaker 8: Oh you'n go on all make search? Both within? Do
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: I fear? And without? I am afraid so much on
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  Speaker 8: either side the spear agitate me. Now in this are
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: mortals intensely wretched. He is now joyous, whoever he is
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: that has found it? Which is of no use at
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: all to any person else to myself, it may be,
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  Speaker 8: but I cause delay to myself. Oh, I am doing
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  Speaker 8: this with mimissness, Aliska, attend to what you are about.
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  Speaker 8: Look down upon the ground and look round about. Search
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  Speaker 8: with your eyes, guess with shrewdness.
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  Speaker 1: Lampediscus apart at a distance, Mistress Fanestrata apart. Well, what's
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the matter that she pointing at? Helesca?
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  Speaker 4: She who let pull the casket? Why? Surely she's racing
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: at that spot where it fell, It seems.
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  Speaker 1: So, Alisca to herself, looking on the ground.
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  Speaker 8: But that person has gone this way, this way I
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: perceived in front of his shoe. This way, I'll follow him.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: She moves along, still looking on the ground.
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  Speaker 8: In this spot. Now he has stopped along with another person. Here,
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: Now a circle presents itself to my sight. Nor did
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: he go straight forward this way? Here he came to
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: a pause this way? Did he come out of that circle?
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: He was a conference with someone. It points to two persons.
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  Speaker 8: Now who are these?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 8: Day? I see the footsteps of only one. But he
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: has gone this way. I'll consider it hither he went
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  Speaker 8: from thence from hence he has never gone. I am
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: troubling myself to no purpose. What's lost is lost? Can
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: I hide along with the casket? I'll go indoors again.
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  Speaker 1: Going towards the house of the father of Alces March's
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Fano Strata, calling out.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, woman, stop. There are some persons who wish to
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: meet with you.
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  Speaker 8: Who's calling me back?
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  Speaker 4: A good female and a bad male.
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  Speaker 8: Wan't you away with you? Bad male? I want a
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  Speaker 8: good one to herself.
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  Speaker 4: Do all.
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  Speaker 8: He who calls knows better what he wants than I
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  Speaker 8: who am called.
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  Speaker 1: I'll return aloud.
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  Speaker 8: Really, have you seen any person hereabouts pick up a
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: casket with some trinkets which I, to my misfortune, have
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: lost here for one, just now we were running into
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: the house of Alsa Marchus, that he mightn't put an
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: end to his life. At that moment, I think that
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: through terror the casket fell down from me here.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Lamp Odiscus aside to Fanis Strata.
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  Speaker 4: This woman's to our purpose less thing, you too, a
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: little mistress.
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: To my sorrow, I'm utterly undone. What shall I say
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: to my mistress who bade me with such earnestness take
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: care of it? Through which Selenium might alreadily recognize her parents,
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: when little was adopted by my mistress as her own,
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: and whom a certain cortisan gave to her.
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  Speaker 1: Lampidiscus Aside, she's talking about this matter of ours.
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  Speaker 4: According as she gives these indications by her talk, she
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: must surely know where your daughter is.
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: Now? Is she desirous of her own accord to restore
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: her to her father and mother? Whose daughter she is? Really?
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: My good sir, you are attending to something else. I
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: commend my matter to you.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: I'm giving my attention to this, and this is as
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: good as food to me that you are talking of.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: But amid my attending to this matter, I was answering
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: this mistress of mine what she was inquiring. Now I
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: returned to you. If you have need of anything, say
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: you and give your orders. What were you looking for?
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: My goods, my good madam, I greet you and we you,
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: But what are you looking for? I'm tracing footsteps here
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: the way that something has escaped me here. I don't
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: know how.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: Pray something to bring a loss to another and a
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: calamity on our family.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Lampidiscus Aside to Fani Strata.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: A worthless baggage is this mistress, and a crafty one.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: A face, And so she seems.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: She imitates a worthless animal, and a mischievous which one
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: pretty a caterpillar, which twisting about, winds itself in the
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: leaf of the vine. Just in the same way does
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: she begin a story that twists about to helliska, what
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: are you looking for a casket?
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  Speaker 8: My good young man has blown away from me.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: Here you ought to have put it in a cage.
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: In faith, the body was no great one.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: It's a wonder if a whole troop of sleeves isn't
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: there in the casket. Do let her speak, if indeed
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: she would speak.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Fanestrata to heleisca, Come say you what was in it?
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: Drink it?
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  Speaker 4: Only there's a certain man who declares that he knows
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: where it is.
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: By my faith, you'll confer an obligation on a certain
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: woman if you'll discover it.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: But this shertain man wishes a reward to be given
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: to him.
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  Speaker 8: But by my face, this certain woman that has lost
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: this casket declares that she has nothing to give this
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: certain man.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: But still this shertain man looks for some money.
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: But still he looks for it in vain.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: But by my faith, good woman, in no matter does
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: this certain man give his pains for nothing.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: Lend me your conversation. It will now be for your
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: own advantage. We confess that we have got the casket.
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: Then may salvation preserve you.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Where is it now, Fano Strata producing the casket?
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: See here it is safe. But I wish to discourse
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: with you upon a matter of importance to myself. I
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: take you as a sharer with me in my own preservation.
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: What matter is this? Who are you?
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: I am the mother of her who had these things
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: with her when exposed?
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: Do you live here?
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Then, pointing to the house, you are a diviner?
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: But pretty good woman. Do lay aside all mystification, and
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: to the point, tell me at once, whence did you
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: get these trinkets?
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: This daughter of my mistress had them?
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: You tell a falsehood, For my own mistress's daughter had them,
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: not yours. Don't interrupt, I'll be mam.
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: Good woman, go on speaking. Where is she who had them?
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Helesca, pointing to the house of al Casa Marcha's.
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: Here next door by the powers.
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: Surely the son in law of my husband is living there. Surely,
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: interrupting again to Glesca, go on relating it. How many
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: years old is she said.
• 54:11
  Speaker 8: To be seventeen?
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: She is my own daughter, then, te she as the
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: number of her years has proved.
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: What you are seeking, you have found. I now seek what's.
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: Mine, my faith. They've found what's their own. I'll seek
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: for number three.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: My daughter. The object which I was seeking. I have discovered.
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: It's proper to keep in safety what's been intrusted in confidence, Lester,
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: kindness should turn out a detriment to the well deserving.
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: This fast doing of ours is assured that your daughter
• 54:57
  Speaker 8: and my mistress, is about to restore you your own.
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: And for that purpose has she come from her house?
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: Her prithe inquire of her own self. I am but
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: a servant. You ask what is just to her? Rather
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: do I choose this obligation to belong? But I beg
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: that you'll restore me that casket.
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: What's to be done, Lampadio.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: What's your own? Keep as your own?
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: But I feel compassion for her.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: This I think ought to be done. Give her the
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: casket and go indoors together with her.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I'll follow your advice, giving it to Helliska.
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: Take you the casket. Let's go indoors. But what's the
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: name of your mistress?
• 55:50
  Speaker 8: Melinus go first, I'll follow you.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: At once exit Lampadiscus and the others go into the
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: house of the father of Alca Marchers. End of Act four,
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  Speaker 1: Act five of Cistellaria or the Casket by Titus Machius Plautus,
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• 56:19
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• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Enter demifo.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: What affair is this that all persons are talking about
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: in the street? That my tatter has been found? They
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: say too, that Lampardio has been seeking me in the forum.
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: Enter Lampadiscus, Master, whence come you from the senate? I
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: rejoice that through my means there is an addition to
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: your children.
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: But don't please me.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: I don't want that I should be having more children
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: by means of another person. But what is the meaning
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: of this?
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Lampadiscus, pointing to the house of the father of alcesmarchs my.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: Haste and go indoors here to the house of your neighbor.
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: You will at once recognize your daughter, your wife's indoors,
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: there as well, go quickly.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: I'm resolved that this shall before all other matters be
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: attended to.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: They go into the house of the father of alcesmarchs.
• 57:40
  Speaker 11: Don't you wait, spectators, till they come out to you.
• 57:44
  Speaker 11: No one will come out. They'll all finish the business indoors.
• 57:49
  Speaker 11: When that shall be done, they'll lay aside their dress.
• 57:53
  Speaker 11: Then after that he that has done a miss will
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: get a beating he has not done amiss, we'll get
• 58:00
  Speaker 11: some drink. Now, as to what's left, spectators for you
• 58:06
  Speaker 11: to do after the manner of your ancestors, give your
• 58:11
  Speaker 11: applause at the conclusion of the play.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act five. End of Cistellaria or the Casket
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  Speaker 1: by Titus Machius Plautus, translated by Henry Thomas Riley,