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  Speaker 1: Act one of Hecaira, The Mother in Law by Terence
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  Speaker 1: translated by Henry Thomas Raleigh. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: Dramatis, Persernoe, Lagus an aged Athenian father of Pamphillus read.
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  Speaker 3: By Todd Philippus an aged Athenian father of Philumena read
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  Speaker 3: by Our Mapstone.
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  Speaker 4: Pamphilus, son of Lacus read by Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: Peter Sosia, Servant of Pamphillis read by Nema.
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  Speaker 6: Parmeno, Servant of Sostrata read by Eva Davis. Sostrata, Wife
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  Speaker 6: of Lackeys read by Beth Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: Wife of Philippus read by t. J. Burns.
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  Speaker 8: Beckis a courtesan read by Sonya.
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  Speaker 9: Philotis a courtesan read by Devora Allen.
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  Speaker 10: Sira, a procurus read by Abbaye and.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by lean Yao. Scene Athens before the
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  Speaker 1: House of Lakey's Philippis and bacchis the first prologue. Hakaira
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  Speaker 1: is the name of this play when it was represented
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. An unusual disaster and calamity interrupted
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  Speaker 1: it so that it could not be witnessed throughout or estimated,
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 11: Had the populace carried away with admiration.
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  Speaker 1: Devoted their attention to some rope dancing. It is now
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  Speaker 1: offered as though entirely a new play, and he who
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  Speaker 1: wrote it did not wish to bring it forward then
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  Speaker 1: a second time, on purpose that he might be able
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  Speaker 1: again to sell it. Other plays of his you have
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  Speaker 1: seen represented. I beg you now to give your attention
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  Speaker 1: to this, the second Prologue. I come to you as
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  Speaker 1: an envoy from the poet in the character of prologue speaker.
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  Speaker 1: Allow me to be a successful pleader, that in my
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  Speaker 1: old age I may enjoy the same privilege that I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed when a younger man, when I caused new plays
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  Speaker 1: that had been once rejected to come into favor, so
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  Speaker 1: that his writings might not die with the poet among them,
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  Speaker 1: as to those of Calcilius, which I first studied when new,
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  Speaker 1: in some of which I was rejected. In some I
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  Speaker 1: kept my ground with difficulty, as I knew that the
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  Speaker 1: fortune of the stage was varying. Where the hopes were uncertain,
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  Speaker 1: I submitted to certain toil those I zealously attempted to
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  Speaker 1: perform that from the same writer I might learn new ones,
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  Speaker 1: and not discourage him from his pursuits. I caused them
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  Speaker 1: to be represented when.
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  Speaker 11: Seen they pleased.
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  Speaker 1: Thus did I restore the poet to his place, who
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  Speaker 1: was now almost weaned through the malevolence of his adversaries,
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  Speaker 1: from his pursuits and labors, and from the dramatic art.
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  Speaker 1: But if I had at that period slighted the writer
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  Speaker 1: and had wished to use my endeavors in discouraging him
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  Speaker 1: so that he might live a life of idleness rather
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  Speaker 1: than of study, I might have easily discouraged him from
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  Speaker 1: writing Others. Now, for my sake, here with unbiased minds,
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  Speaker 1: what it is I ask I again bring before you
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  Speaker 1: the Hercirah which I have never been allowed to act
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  Speaker 1: before you in silence. Such misfortunes have so overwhelmed it.
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  Speaker 1: These misfortunes your intelligence will allay, if it is a
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  Speaker 1: seconder of our exertions. The first time when I began
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  Speaker 1: to act this play, the hauntings of boxes, the expectation
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  Speaker 1: of a rope dancer, added to which the throng of followers,
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  Speaker 1: the noise, the clamor of the women caused me to
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  Speaker 1: retire from your presence before the time. In this new play,
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  Speaker 1: I attempted to follow the old custom of mine of
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  Speaker 1: making a fresh trial. I brought it on again in
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  Speaker 1: the first act. I pleased when in the meantime a
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  Speaker 1: rumor spread that gladiators were about to be exhibited. The
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  Speaker 1: populace flock together make a tumult clamor allowed and fight
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  Speaker 1: for their places. Meantime, I was unable to maintain my place.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is no confusion, there is attention and silence,
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity of acting my play has been granted me
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  Speaker 1: to yourselves, is given the power of gracing the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Festival, do not permit, through your agency, the dramatic
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  Speaker 1: art to sink into the hands of a few. Let
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  Speaker 1: your authority prove a seconder and assistant to my own.
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  Speaker 1: If I have done a covetously set a price upon
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  Speaker 1: my skill, and have come to this conclusion that it
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest gain, in the highest possible degree, to
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  Speaker 1: contribute to your entertainment, allow me to obtain this of you,
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  Speaker 1: that him who has entrusted his labors to my protection
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  Speaker 1: and himself to your integrity, that him, I say the
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  Speaker 1: malicious may not maliciously deride beset by them on every side.
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  Speaker 1: For my sake, admit of this plea, and attend in
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  Speaker 1: silence that he may be encouraged to write other plays,
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  Speaker 1: and that it may be for my advantage to study
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  Speaker 1: new ones hereafter, purchased at my own expense. Act one,
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  Speaker 1: seene one, enter philotus and syrah.
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  Speaker 9: If faiths syrah. You can find but very few lovers
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  Speaker 9: who prove constant to their mistresses. For instance, how often
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  Speaker 9: did this Penfeelis swear to Bergis, how solemnly so that
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  Speaker 9: anyone might have readily believed him that he would never
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  Speaker 9: take home a wife so long as she lived well?
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  Speaker 1: Now he is married.
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  Speaker 10: Therefore, for that very reason, I earnestly both advise and
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  Speaker 10: entreat you to take pity upon no one but plunder,
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  Speaker 10: fleece and drend every man you lay hold off, what
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  Speaker 10: hold no one, exempt no one, For not a single
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  Speaker 10: one of them, rest assured, comes to you without making
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  Speaker 10: up his mind by means of his flatteries, to gratify
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  Speaker 10: his passion with you at the least possible expense, Will
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  Speaker 10: you not pray plot against them?
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  Speaker 11: In return?
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  Speaker 9: And yet, upon my faith it is unfair to be
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  Speaker 9: the same to all?
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  Speaker 10: What unfair to take revenge on your enemies, or for
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  Speaker 10: them to be caught in the very way they try
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  Speaker 10: to catch you? Ahlas wretched me? Why do not your
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  Speaker 10: age and beauty belong to me? Or else these sentiments
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  Speaker 10: of mine to you?
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  Speaker 1: Scene too, enter Parmeoner from the house of Lakey's Parmeener
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  Speaker 1: at the door, speaking to Skirtus within.
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  Speaker 6: If the old man should be asking for me, do
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  Speaker 6: you say that I have just gone to the harbor
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  Speaker 6: to inquire about the arrival of Pamphilus.
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  Speaker 11: Do you hear what I say?
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  Speaker 6: Shirtus? If he asks for me, then you are to
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  Speaker 6: say so. If he does not, why I say nothing
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  Speaker 6: at all, so that at another time I may be
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  Speaker 6: able to employ that excuse as a new.
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  Speaker 1: One comes forward and looking around?
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  Speaker 6: But is my dear Philotus that I see? How has
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  Speaker 6: she come here accosting her? Filotus heartily, good.
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  Speaker 9: Morrow, oh good morrow, Parmeno, by my.
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  Speaker 10: Draw good morrow, Parmeno.
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  Speaker 6: If faith cere the same to you, Filotus, tell me
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  Speaker 6: where have you been enjoying yourself so long?
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  Speaker 9: For my part, indeed, I have been far from enjoying
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  Speaker 9: myself in leaving this place for Corinth, the most brutal captain.
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  Speaker 9: For two whole years there had I to put up
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  Speaker 9: with him, to my sorrow a troth.
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  Speaker 6: I fancy that regret for Athens's full off possessed you,
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  Speaker 6: and that you thought but poorly of your foresight.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it cannot be expressed how impatient I was to
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  Speaker 9: return hither, get rid of the captain, and see yourselves here,
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  Speaker 9: that after our old fashion, I might at ease enjoy
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  Speaker 9: the merrymakings among you. For there it was not allowed
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  Speaker 9: me to speak, except at the moment prescribed, and on
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  Speaker 9: such subjects as he chose.
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  Speaker 6: Parmoner sarcastically, I don't think it was gallant in the
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  Speaker 6: captain to place a restraint on your tongue.
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  Speaker 9: But what is this piece of business that Bacchus has
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  Speaker 9: just now been telling me indoors here, pointing to her house,
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  Speaker 9: A thing I never supposed would come to pass, that
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  Speaker 9: he and her lifetime could possibly prevail upon his feelings
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  Speaker 9: to take.
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  Speaker 6: A wife to take. Indeed, why look.
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  Speaker 9: You has he not taken one?
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  Speaker 6: He has? But I doubt whether this match will be lasting.
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  Speaker 9: May the gods and goddesses grant it?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 9: If it is for the advantage of Bacchis. But why
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  Speaker 9: am I to believe it is?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 6: Tell me, Parmeno, there's no need for it being spread abroad.
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  Speaker 6: Ask me no more about.
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  Speaker 9: It, for fear I suppose it may be made public.
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  Speaker 9: So may the gods prosper me. I do not ask
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  Speaker 9: you in order that I may spread it abroad, but
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  Speaker 9: that in silence I may rejoice within myself.
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  Speaker 6: You'll never speak to me so fairly that I shall
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  Speaker 6: trust my back to your discretion.
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  Speaker 9: Oh don't say so, Parmeno, as though you were not
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  Speaker 9: much more impatient to tell me this than I to
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  Speaker 9: learn what I'm inquiring about.
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  Speaker 11: Parmeno to himself.
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  Speaker 6: She tells the truth there, and that is my greatest
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  Speaker 6: failing to Philotus. If you give me your word that
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  Speaker 6: you'll keep it a secret, I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 9: Are now returning to your natural disposition. I give you
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  Speaker 9: my word. Say on, listen, I'm all attention.
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  Speaker 6: Pamphelus was in the height of his passion for Bacchus
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  Speaker 6: here when his father began to importune him to take
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  Speaker 6: a wife and urge those points which are usual with
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  Speaker 6: all fathers. That he himself was now in years and
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  Speaker 6: that he was his only son that he wished for
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  Speaker 6: support for his declining years. He refused at first, but
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  Speaker 6: on his father pressing more urgently, he caused him to
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  Speaker 6: become wavering in his mind whether to yield rather to
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  Speaker 6: duty or to love. By hammering on and teasing him.
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  Speaker 6: At last the old man gained his point and betrothed
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  Speaker 6: him to the daughter of our next door neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: Here pointing to the house of Phidippus.
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  Speaker 6: This did not seem so very disagreeable to Penphelus, until
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  Speaker 6: on the very point of marriage, when he saw that
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  Speaker 6: all was ready, and that no respite was granted but
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  Speaker 6: Mary he must. Then, at last he took it so
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  Speaker 6: much to heart that I do believe if Bacchus had
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  Speaker 6: been present even she would have pitied him whenever opportunity
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  Speaker 6: was afforded for us. Being alone, so that he could
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  Speaker 6: converse with me, he used to say, parmeen, no, I
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  Speaker 6: am ruined. What have I done into? What misery have
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  Speaker 6: I plunged myself? Parmeno, I shall never be able to
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  Speaker 6: endure this to my misery, I am undone.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, may the gods and goddesses confound you. Lachis, for
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  Speaker 9: vexing him.
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  Speaker 6: So, to cut the matter short, he took home his wife.
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  Speaker 6: On the first night. He did not touch the girl.
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  Speaker 6: The night that followed that not a bit the more.
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  Speaker 9: What is it you tell me, a young man go
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  Speaker 9: to bed with a virgin, intoxicated to boot and able
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  Speaker 9: to restrain himself from touching her. You do not say
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  Speaker 9: what's likely, nor do I believe it to be the truth.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose it does seem so to you, for no
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  Speaker 6: one comes to you unless he is eager for you.
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  Speaker 6: But he had married her against his will?
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  Speaker 11: After this what followed In a very.
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  Speaker 6: Few days after, Pamphelus took me aside away from the
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  Speaker 6: house and told me how that the young woman was
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  Speaker 6: still untouched by him, and how that before he had
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  Speaker 6: taken her home as his wife. Yet hoped to be
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  Speaker 6: able to endure this marriage. But Parmino, as I cannot
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  Speaker 6: resolve to live with her any longer. It is neither
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  Speaker 6: honorable in me, nor of advantage to the young woman herself,
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  Speaker 6: for her to be turned to ridicule. But rather I
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  Speaker 6: ought to return her to her relations just as I
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  Speaker 6: received her.
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  Speaker 9: You tell me of the conscientious and virtuous disposition in Pamphelus.
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  Speaker 6: For me to declare this I consider to be inconvenient
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  Speaker 6: to me. But for her to be sent back to
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  Speaker 6: her father without mentioning any blame would be insolent. But
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  Speaker 6: I am in hopes that she, when she is sensible
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  Speaker 6: she cannot live with me, will go at last of
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  Speaker 6: her own accord.
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  Speaker 9: What did he do in the meanwhile? Used he to
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  Speaker 9: visit Becchis.
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  Speaker 6: Every day, But as is usually the case, after she
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  Speaker 6: saw that he belonged to another, she immediately became more
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  Speaker 6: ill natured and peevish in faith.
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  Speaker 9: That's not to be wondered at.
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  Speaker 6: And this circumstance, in especial contributed to estrange him from her.
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  Speaker 6: After he had fairly examined himself and her, and the
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  Speaker 6: one that was at home, he formed a judgment by
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  Speaker 6: comparison upon the principles of them both. She just as
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  Speaker 6: might be expected from a person of respectable and free birth,
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  Speaker 6: chaste and virtuous patient, under the slights and all the
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  Speaker 6: insults of her husband, and concealing his affrants. Upon this,
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  Speaker 6: his mind, partly overcome by compassion for his wife, partly
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  Speaker 6: constrained by the insolence of the other, was gradually estranged
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  Speaker 6: from Bacchus, and transferred its affections to the other, after
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  Speaker 6: having found a congenial disposition. In the meantime, their dies
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  Speaker 6: had imbrose an old man, a relative of theirs. His
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  Speaker 6: property there devolved on them by law. Thither his father
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  Speaker 6: drove the love sok Pamphiles much against his will. He
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  Speaker 6: left his wife here with his mother. For the old
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  Speaker 6: man has retired into the country, he seldom comes into
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  Speaker 6: the What is.
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  Speaker 9: There yet in this marriage to prevent its being lasting?
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  Speaker 6: You shall hear just now. At first, for several days
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  Speaker 6: there really was a good understanding between them. In the meantime, however,
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  Speaker 6: in a strange way, she began to take a dislike
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  Speaker 6: to Sostrata. Nor yet was there ever any quarrel or
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  Speaker 6: words between them. What then, if at any time she
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  Speaker 6: came to converse with her, she would instantly withdraw from
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  Speaker 6: her presence and refuse to see her, and fine, when
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  Speaker 6: she could no longer endure her, she pretended that she
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  Speaker 6: was sent for by her mother to assist at a sacrifice.
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  Speaker 6: When she had been there a few days, Sostrata ordered
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  Speaker 6: her to be fetched. She made some I know not
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  Speaker 6: what excuse. Again, she gave similar orders. No one sent
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  Speaker 6: back any excuse. After she had sent for her repeatedly.
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  Speaker 6: They pretended that the damsel was sick. My mistress immediately
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  Speaker 6: went to see her. No one admitted her. On the
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  Speaker 6: old man coming to know of this, he yesterday came
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  Speaker 6: up from the country on purpose and waited immediately upon
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  Speaker 6: the father of Philomena. What passed between them, I do
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  Speaker 6: not know as yet, but really I do feel some
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  Speaker 6: anxiety in what way this is to end. You now
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  Speaker 6: have the whole matter, and I shall proceed. Whether I
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  Speaker 6: was on my way.
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  Speaker 9: And I too, for I made an appointment with a
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  Speaker 9: certain stranger to meet him.
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  Speaker 6: May the gods prosper what you undertake. Farewell and a
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  Speaker 6: kind farewell to you, my dear.
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  Speaker 1: Fellotus excellent severally. End of Act one, Act too of
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  Speaker 1: Hekkira the Mother in Law by Terence translated by Henry
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Riley. This is a LibriVox recording. All Liveryvox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit liveryvox dot org. Seene one and to Lackys
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  Speaker 1: and Sostrata from the House of the Former.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Faith of Gods and men. What a race.
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  Speaker 4: Is this?
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  Speaker 2: What a conspiracy?
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  Speaker 8: This?
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  Speaker 2: That all women should desire and reject every individual thing alike,
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  Speaker 2: and not a single one. Can you find a swerve
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  Speaker 2: in any respect from the disposition of the rest. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: quite as though with one accord, do all mother in
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  Speaker 2: laws hate their daughters in law just in the same way?
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  Speaker 2: Is it their system to oppose their husband's their obstinacy
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  Speaker 2: here is the same in the very same school. They
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  Speaker 2: all seem to me to have been trained up to
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  Speaker 2: perverseness of that school. If there is any mistress, I
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  Speaker 2: am very sure that.
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  Speaker 11: She pointing at the strata. It is wretched me when
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  Speaker 11: now I don't so much as know why.
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  Speaker 1: I am accused, Eh, don't you know?
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  Speaker 8: So?
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  Speaker 11: May the gods kindly prosper me, luckys, and so may
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  Speaker 11: it be allowed us to pass our lives together in
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  Speaker 11: unity lackys aside, May.
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  Speaker 2: The gods avert such a misfortune.
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  Speaker 11: I'm sure that before long you will be sensible that
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  Speaker 11: I have been accused by you undeservedly.
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  Speaker 2: You undeservedly. Can anything possibly be said that you deserve
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  Speaker 2: in return for this conduct of yours, You who are
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  Speaker 2: disgracing both me and yourself and the family and are
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  Speaker 2: laying up sorrow for your son. Then, besides, you are
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  Speaker 2: making our connections be come from friends enemies to us
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  Speaker 2: who have thought him deserving for them to entrust their
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  Speaker 2: children to him. You alone have for forward, by your folly,
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  Speaker 2: to be causing this disturbance.
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  Speaker 4: What I you, woman?
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  Speaker 2: I say, who take me to be a stone not
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  Speaker 2: a man? Do you think because it's my habit to
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  Speaker 2: be so much in the country that I don't know
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  Speaker 2: in what way each person is passing his life here?
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  Speaker 2: I know much better what is going on here than there,
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  Speaker 2: where I am daily for this reason, because just as
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  Speaker 2: you act at home, I am spoken of abroad. Sometime
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  Speaker 2: since indeed I heard that Filumena had taken a dislike
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  Speaker 2: to you, Nor did I the least wonder at it. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: if she hadn't done so, it would have been more surprising.
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  Speaker 2: But I did not suppose that she would have gone
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  Speaker 2: so far as to hate even the rest of the family.
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  Speaker 2: If I had known that, she should have remained here
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  Speaker 2: in preference, and you should have gone away. But consider
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  Speaker 2: how undeservedly these vexations arise on your account. So Strata,
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  Speaker 2: I went to live in the country in compliance with
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  Speaker 2: your request, and to look after my affairs in order
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  Speaker 2: that my circumstances might be able to support your lavishness
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  Speaker 2: and comforts, not sparing my own exertions beyond what's reasonable
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  Speaker 2: and my time of life allows, that you should take
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  Speaker 2: no care in return for all this, that there should
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  Speaker 2: be nothing to vex.
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  Speaker 11: Me upon my word through no means. So fault of
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  Speaker 11: mine has this taken place?
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  Speaker 2: Nay through you? In especial you were the only person
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  Speaker 2: here on you alone, So strata falls all the blame.
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  Speaker 2: You ought to have taken care of matters here as
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  Speaker 2: I had released you from other anxieties. Is it not
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  Speaker 2: disgrace for an old woman to pick a quarrel with
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  Speaker 2: a girl? You will say it was her fault?
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  Speaker 11: Indeed, I do not say so, my dear luckies.
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  Speaker 2: I am glad of that. So may the gods prosper
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  Speaker 2: me for my son's sake. I am quite sure of this,
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  Speaker 2: that no fault of yours can possibly put you in
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  Speaker 2: a worse light.
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  Speaker 11: How do you know, my husband, whether she may not
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  Speaker 11: have pretended to dislike me on purpose that she might
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  Speaker 11: be more with her mother?
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  Speaker 2: What say you to this? Is it not prove sufficient
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  Speaker 2: when yesterday, no one was willing to admit you into
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  Speaker 2: the house when you went to see her.
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  Speaker 11: Why they told me she was very ill just then
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  Speaker 11: for that reason I was not admitted to her.
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  Speaker 2: I fancy that your humors are more her malady than
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  Speaker 2: anything else, and with good reason in fact, for there
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  Speaker 2: is not one of you but wants her son to
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  Speaker 2: take a wife. And the match which has taken your
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: fancy must be the one. When at your solicitation they
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  Speaker 2: have married, Then at your solicitation they are to put
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  Speaker 2: them away again.
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  Speaker 1: Scene too, and to Phidippus from his house. Phidippus speaking
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  Speaker 1: to Philamina within.
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  Speaker 3: Although I am aware, Philumena, that I have the right
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  Speaker 3: to compel you to do what I order, still being
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  Speaker 3: swayed by the feelings of a father, I will prevail
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  Speaker 3: upon myself to yield to you and not oppose your inclinations.
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  Speaker 2: And look most opportunely I see Fidippus, I'll presently know
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  Speaker 2: from him how.
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  Speaker 11: It is accosting him.
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  Speaker 2: Fidippis. Although I am aware that I am particularly indulgent
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  Speaker 2: to all my family, still it is not that degree
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  Speaker 2: to let my good nature corrupt their mind. And if
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  Speaker 2: you would do the same it would be more for
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  Speaker 2: your own interest and ours. At present, I see that
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  Speaker 2: you are under the control of those women.
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  Speaker 3: Just look at that. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I waited on you yesterday about your daughter. You sent
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  Speaker 2: me away just as wise as I came. It does
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  Speaker 2: not become you if you wish this alliance to continue
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  Speaker 2: to conceal your resentment. If there is any fault on
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: our side, disclose it, either by clearing ourselves or excusing it.
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  Speaker 2: We shall remedy these matters for you yourself the judge.
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  Speaker 2: But if this is the cause of detaining her at
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  Speaker 2: your house because she is ill, then I think you
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  Speaker 2: do me an injustice. Phidippus. If you are afraid lest
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: she should not be attended with sufficient care at my house.
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  Speaker 2: But so may the gods prosper me. I I do
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  Speaker 2: not yield inness to you, although you are her father,
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  Speaker 2: that you can wish her well more than I do,
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  Speaker 2: and that on my son's account, who I know, values
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  Speaker 2: her not less than his own self. Nor in fact,
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  Speaker 2: is it unknown to you how much as I believe
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  Speaker 2: it will vex him if he comes to know of this.
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  Speaker 2: For this reason, I wish to have her home before
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: he returns Lotches.
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  Speaker 3: I am sensible of both your carefulness and your good will.
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  Speaker 3: And I am persuaded that all you say is just
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: as you say, and I would have you believe me
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  Speaker 3: in this. I am anxious for her to return to you,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: if I possibly can, by any means effects it.
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  Speaker 2: What is it prevents you from affecting it? Come?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Does she make any complaint against her husband by no means?
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  Speaker 3: For when I urged it still more strongly and attempted
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  Speaker 3: to constrain her by force to return, she solemnly protested
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  Speaker 3: that she couldn't possibly remain with you while Pamphilus was absent.
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  Speaker 3: Probably each has his own failing, I am naturally of
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  Speaker 3: an indulgent disposition. I cannot thwart my own family.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies, turning to his wife, who stands apart ah stostrata
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  Speaker 1: ah alas wretched me Lakey's to Phittippus.
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  Speaker 2: Is this your final determination for the present, at least
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: as it seems?
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  Speaker 3: But have you anything else to say? For I have
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: some business that obliges me to go at once to
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  Speaker 3: the forum.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go with you.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent scene three sestrata alone upon my faith, we assuredly
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  Speaker 1: are all of us hated by our husbands with equal
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  Speaker 1: injustice on account of a few who cause us all
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  Speaker 1: to appear deserving of harsh treatment.
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  Speaker 11: For may so the gods prosper me. As to what
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  Speaker 11: my husband accuses me of, I am quite guiltless, but
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: it is not so easy to clear myself. So strongly
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: have people come to the conclusion that all stepmothers are
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: harsh if faith not I indeed, for I never regarded
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: her otherwise than if she had been my own daughter.
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  Speaker 11: Nor can I conceive how this has befallen me. But really,
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  Speaker 11: for many reasons, I long for my son's return home.
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  Speaker 11: With impatience, goes into her house. End of Act two,
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  Speaker 11: Act three of Hakkaira The Mother in Law by Terence
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  Speaker 11: translated by Henry Thomas Riley. This is the libryvox recording.
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  Speaker 11: All liveryvox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 11: information or to volunteer, please visit liveryvox dot org. Scene one.
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  Speaker 4: And to Pamphilus and Parmoner, no individual I do believe
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: ever met with more crosses in love than I. Alas
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: unhappy me that I have thus been sparing of life?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Was it for this? I was so very impatient to
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: return home? Oh, how much more preferable had it been
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: for me to pass my life anywhere in the world
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: than to return here and be sensible that I am
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: thus wretched. For all of us know who have met
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: with trouble from any cause, that all the time that
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: passes before we come to the knowledge of it is
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  Speaker 4: so much pain.
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  Speaker 6: Still as it is, you'll the sooner know how to
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  Speaker 6: extricate yourself from these misfortunes. If you had not returned,
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: this breach might have become much wider. But now, Pamphylus,
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  Speaker 6: I am sure that both will be odd by your presence.
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  Speaker 6: You will learn the facts, remove their enmity, restore them
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  Speaker 6: to good feeling once again. These are betrifles which you
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: have persuaded yourself, are so grievous.
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  Speaker 4: Why comfort me? Is there a person in all the
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: world so wretched as I? Before I took her to wife,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: I had my heart engaged by other affections. Now, though
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: on this subject I should be silent, it is easy
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: for anyone to know how much I have suffered. Yet
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I never dared refuse her, whom my father forced upon
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: me with difficulty. Did I withdraw myself from another and
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: disengage my affections so firmly rooted there, and hardly had
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I fixed them in another quarter when low and new
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: misfortune has arisen, which may tear me from her too.
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  Speaker 4: Then besides, I suppose that in this matter I shall
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  Speaker 4: find either my mother or my wife in fault. And
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: when I find such to be the fact, what remains
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: but to become still more wretched. For duty par meno
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: bids me bear with the feelings of a mother. Then
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: to my wife I am bound by obligations with so
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: much temper did she formerly bear my usage and on
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: no occasion disclose them any wrongs inflicted on her by me?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: But pa menho, something of consequence. I know not what
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: it is must have happened for this misunderstanding to have
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: a risen between them that has lasted so long.
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  Speaker 6: Or else something frivolous. Faith, if you would only give
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: words their proper value, those which are sometimes the greatest
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: enmities do not argue the greatest injuries. For it often
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: happens that, in certain circumstances in which another would not
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: even be out of timber, for the very same reason,
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: a passionate man becomes your greatest enemy. What enmities to
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: children entertain among themselves for trifling injuries.
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  Speaker 4: For what reason?
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  Speaker 6: Why? Because they have a weak understanding to direct them?
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Just so are these women almost like children with their
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: fickle feelings. Perhaps a single word has occasioned this enmity
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  Speaker 6: between them.
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  Speaker 4: Master, go Parmeno into the house and carry word that
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I have arrived.
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  Speaker 1: A noise is heard in the house of Fidamus.
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  Speaker 6: Huh what means this?
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  Speaker 4: Be silent? I perceive a bustling about and are running
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  Speaker 4: to and fro.
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  Speaker 11: Parmeener going to the door.
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  Speaker 6: Come men, I'll push nearer to the door.
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  Speaker 11: He listens.
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  Speaker 6: Huh did you hear?
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  Speaker 4: Don't be praying? He listens, Oh, Jupiter, I heard a shriek.
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  Speaker 1: You yourself are talking while you forbid me Marina within
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  Speaker 1: the house.
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  Speaker 7: Pruly, my child, do be silent.
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  Speaker 4: That seems to be the voice of Phila Menna's mother.
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  Speaker 4: I'm undone, Why so utterly ruined?
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  Speaker 6: For what reason?
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  Speaker 4: Permeno, you are concealing from me some great misfortune to
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: me unknown?
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  Speaker 6: They said that your wife Philomena was in alarm about something.
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  Speaker 6: I know not what whether that may be it perchance, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't know, I am undone. Why didn't you tell me
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  Speaker 4: of this.
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  Speaker 6: Because I couldn't tell everything at once.
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  Speaker 4: What is the malady? I don't know what has no
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: one brought a physician to see her?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Why do I going indoors that I may know as
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: soon as possible for certain what it is? In what condition?
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Phila Menna? Am I now to find you? But if
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: you are in any peril beyond a doubt, I will
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: perish you with you.
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  Speaker 1: Goes into the house of Pitipus. Scene too.
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  Speaker 11: Promeno alone.
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  Speaker 6: There is no need for me to follow him into
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: the house at present, for I see that we are
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: all disagreeable to them. Yesterday no one would give Sestrata
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: an admittance. If perchance the malady should become worse, which
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: really I could far from wish for my master's sake, especially,
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: they would at once say that Sustrata's servant had been
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: in there. They would invent a story that I had
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: brought some mischief against their lives and persons, in consequence
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: of which the malady had been increased. My mistress would
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: be blamed, and I should incur heavy punishment.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three, And to Sostrata. Sostrata to herself in dreadful alarm.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I have for some time heard I know not what
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: confusion going on here. I'm sadly afraid Philamina's illness is
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: getting worse. As sleepy as I do entreat.
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  Speaker 11: Thee and thee health that it may not be so.
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: Now I'll go.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: This approaches the door, parmeono, coming forward, park you sostrata, sostrata,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: turning round?
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Well you will again be shut out there?
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  Speaker 11: What parmino is it you? I am undone wretch that
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: I am. What shall I do?
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  Speaker 6: Am?
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  Speaker 11: I not to go see the wife of pamphillis when
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: she is ill here next door, Now go see her.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: Don't even send any person for the purpose of seeing her.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: For I'm of the opinion that he who loves a
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: person to whom he is an object of dislike commits
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: a double mistake. He himself takes a useless trouble and
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: causes annoyance to the other. Besides, your son went in
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: to see how she is as soon as he arrived.
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: What is it you say? Has pamphillis arrived?
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: He has?
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: I give thanks unto the gods. Well through that news,
• 32:50
  Speaker 11: my spirits are revived, and anxiety has departed from my hut.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: For this reason, then, I am especially unwilling that you
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: should go in there. For if Philomena's malady at all abates,
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: she will, I am sure when they are by themselves
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: at once. Tell him all the circumstances, both, what misunderstandings
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: have arisen between you, and how the difference first began.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: But see he's coming out, how sad he looks?
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: Scene for re.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Entered Pamphilus from the house of Phidipus Sostrata, running up
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to him. Oh, my son, embraces him.
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  Speaker 4: My mother, blessings on you.
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  Speaker 11: I rejoice that you are returned safe. Is Philomena in
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: a fair way?
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: She has a little better?
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: Would that the gods may grant it?
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: Sir?
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: Why then do you weep? Or why so dejected?
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Allswell? Mother?
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: What meant that confusion?
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: Tell me?
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: Was she suddenly taken ill?
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Such was the fact?
• 33:57
  Speaker 11: What is her malady?
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: A fever?
• 34:00
  Speaker 11: An intermitting one?
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: So they say, go in the house, please, mother, I'll
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: follow you immediately.
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: Very well goes into her house.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Do you run and meet the servants parmennel and help
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: them with the baggage?
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Why don't they know the way themselves to come to
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: our house?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Pamphilus stamping do you loiter exit Parmoner, Scene five, Pamphilus alone.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I cannot discover any fitting commencement of my troubles at
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: which to begin to narrate the things that have so
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: unexpectedly befallen me, some of which with these eyes I
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: have beheld, some I have heard with my ears, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: on account of which I so hastily betook myself in
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: extreme agitation out of doors. For just now, when full
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: of alarm, I rushed into the house, expecting to find
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: my wife afflicted with some other ma than what I
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: have found it to be ah me. Immediately the servant
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: mays beheld that I had arrived. They all at the
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: same moment joyfully exclaimed he has come from having so
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: suddenly caught sight of me. But I soon perceived the
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: countenances of all of them change because it's so unseasonable,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: a junctured chance that brought me here. One of them,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: in the meantime, hastily ran before me to give notice
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: that I had come impatient to see my wife. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: followed close. When I entered the room that instant, to
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: my sorrow, I found out her malady, For neither did
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: the time afford any interval to enable her to conceal it,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: nor could she complain in any other accents, and those
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: which the case itself prompted. When I perceived this, oh
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: disgraceful conduct, I exclaimed, and instantly hurried away from the
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: spot in tears, overwhelmed by such an incredible and shocking circumstance.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Her mother followed me. Just as I got to the threshold,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: she threw herself on her knees. I felt compassion for her, assuredly.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: It is the fact, in my opinion, just as matters
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: before us all, so are we elated or depressed. And
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: once she began to address me in these words, oh
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: my dear Pamphilus, you see the reason why she left
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: your house. For violence was offered her when formerly a
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: maid by some villain to us unknown. Now she took
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: refuge here, then, that from you and others she might
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: conceal her labor. When I called to mind her entreaties,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I cannot wretched, as I am refrain from tears. Whatever
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: chance or fortunate is said she which has brought you
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: here to day, by it, we do both conjure you,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: if with equity and justice we may that a misfortune
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: may be concealed by you and kept a secret from all,
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: if ever you were sensible, My dear perphuse that she
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: was tenderly disposed toward you. She now asks you to
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: grant her this favor in return, without making any difficulty
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: of it. But as to taking her back, act quite
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: according to your own convenience. You alone are aware of
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: her lying in and that the child is none of yours.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: For it is said that it was two months after
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: the marriage before she had commerce with you, and then
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: this is but the seventh month since she came to you.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: That you are sensible of this. The circumstances themselves prove
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: now if it is possible confuse, I especially wish, and
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: will use my endeavors that her labor may remain unknow
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: own to her father and to all in fact. But
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: if that cannot be managed and they do find it out,
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: I will say that she miscarried. I am sure no
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: one will suspect otherwise than what is so likely the
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: child was by you. It shall be instantly exposed. In
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: that case, there is no inconvenience whatever to yourself, and
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: you will be concealing an outrage so undeservingly committed upon
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: her poor thing. I promised this, and I am resolved
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: to keep faith in what I said. But as to
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: taking her back, really, I do not think that would
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: be at all creditable, nor will I do so. Although
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: love for her and habit have a strong influence upon me,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I weep when it occurs to my mind what must
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: be her life, and how great her loneliness in the future.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Oh fortune, thou hast never been found constant By this time,
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: my former passion has taught me experience in the present
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: case the means by which I got rid of that
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I must employ it on the present occasion. Parmeno is
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: coming with the servants. It is far from convenient that
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: he should be here under present circumstances, for he was
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: the only person whom I trusted the secret that I
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: kept aloof from her when I first married her. I
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: am afraid lest if he should frequently hear her cries,
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: he might find out that she is in labor. He
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: must be dispatched by me somewhere till Philomena is delivered.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Scene six and at a distance Parmeno and Circia with
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: people carrying baggage. Parmeno to Circia.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: Do you say that this voyage was disagreeable to you.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Upon my faith, Permeto, it cannot be so much as
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: expressed in words, how disagreeable it is to go on
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: a voyage? Do you say so, oh, lucky man, you
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: don't know what evils you have escaped by never having
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: been at sea, for to say nothing of other hardships
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: mark this one. Only thirty days or more was I
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: on board that ship, And every moment, to my horror,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: was in continual expectation of death. Such unfavorable weather did
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: we always meet with?
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: How annoying?
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: That's not unknown to me? And fine upon my faith,
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: I would rather run away than go back if I
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: knew that I should have to go back there?
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  Speaker 6: Why really? But slight causes formerly made you, Sosia, do
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  Speaker 6: what you are now threatening to do. But I see
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  Speaker 6: Pamphilus himself standing before the door to.
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  Speaker 1: The attendants who go into the house of.
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  Speaker 6: Lakeies go indoors, all accostomed to see if he wants
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  Speaker 6: anything with me?
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  Speaker 11: A cost's pamphulous?
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  Speaker 6: What still standing here? Master?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and waiting for you?
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: You must run across to the citadel.
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  Speaker 6: Who must you to the citadel?
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  Speaker 4: Why thither to meet Kalidemidice, my entertainer had meekness who
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  Speaker 4: came over in the same ship with me Promina.
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  Speaker 6: Aside confusion, I should say he has made a foul,
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  Speaker 6: that if he should ever return home safe, he would
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  Speaker 6: rupture me with walking.
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  Speaker 4: Why are you lingering?
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  Speaker 11: What do you.
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  Speaker 6: Wish me to say?
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  Speaker 5: Or?
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  Speaker 6: Am I to meet him? Only?
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  Speaker 4: No, say that I cannot meet him today as I
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  Speaker 4: appointed so that he may not wait for me to
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  Speaker 4: know purpose fly.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't know the man's appearance.
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  Speaker 4: Then I'll tell you how to know it. A huge fellow,
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  Speaker 4: ruddy with curly hair, fat, with gray eyes, and freckled countenance.
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  Speaker 6: May the God's compound him? What if he shouldn't come?
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  Speaker 6: Am I to wait there even till evening?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Wait there, run, I can't.
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  Speaker 6: I'm so tired.
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  Speaker 1: Exit slowly? Scene seven, pamphiless.
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  Speaker 4: Alone, he's off. What should I do in this distressed situation? Really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know in what way I'm to conceal this.
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  Speaker 4: There's Marina entreated me, her daughter's lying in Now you
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  Speaker 4: pity the woman? What I can I'll do only so long, however,
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  Speaker 4: as I observe my duty, for it is proper that
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  Speaker 4: I should be regardful of the parent rather than of
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  Speaker 4: my passion. But look, I see Feeedy poosts in my father,
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  Speaker 4: and they are coming this way. What to say to them?
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  Speaker 4: I am a loss.
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  Speaker 1: Stands apart Scene eight enter at a distance Lakey's and Philips.
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  Speaker 2: Did you not say just now that she was waiting
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  Speaker 2: for my son's return?
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  Speaker 3: Just so.
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  Speaker 2: They say that he has arrived? Let her return?
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  Speaker 1: Pamphalus a part to himself allowed.
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  Speaker 4: What excuse to make to my father for not taking
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  Speaker 4: her back?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know Lakey's turning round? Who was it I
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: heard speaking here, Pamphleus a part.
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  Speaker 4: I am resolved to persevere in the course I determined
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  Speaker 4: to pursue.
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  Speaker 2: She is the very person about whom I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to you. Health to you, my father, Health to you,
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  Speaker 2: my son.
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  Speaker 3: I am glad that you have returned, Pamphilus, and the
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: more especially so as you are safe and well.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I believe you have you by just arrived. Only just
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: now tell me what has our cousin Fannia left us well?
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Really a faith? He was a man very much devoted
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: a pleasure while he lived. And those who are so
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  Speaker 4: don't much benefit the heirs, but for themselves leave this commendation.
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  Speaker 4: While he lived, he lived well.
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  Speaker 2: So then you have brought home nothing more than a
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  Speaker 2: single sentiment.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever he has left. We are the gainers by it.
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  Speaker 2: Why know it has proved a loss, for I could
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  Speaker 2: have wished him alive, and well.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: You may wish that with impunity he'll never come to
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  Speaker 3: life again. And after all, I know wishes the two
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  Speaker 3: you would prefer.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, he pointing to Philippas, desired.
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  Speaker 2: For La Mana to be fetched to his house.
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  Speaker 1: Whispers to Philippas, Nottingham with it elbow.
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  Speaker 2: Say that you desired it.
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  Speaker 1: Philippus aside to Lakey's don't punch me.
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  Speaker 11: So to Pamphalus, I.
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  Speaker 2: Desired it, but he'll now send her home again.
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  Speaker 4: Of course I know this whole affair and how it happened.
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  Speaker 4: I heard it just now on my arrival.
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  Speaker 2: Then may the gods confound those spiteful people who told
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  Speaker 2: us news with such readiness.
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  Speaker 4: Pamphialus to Philippus, I am sure that it has been
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: my study that with reason, no slight might possibly be
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: committed by your family. And if I were now truthful
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: to mention of how faithful, loving and tender disposition I
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: have proved toward her, I could do so, truly, did
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: I not rather wish that you should learn it of herself?
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: For by that method you will be the more ready
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: to place confidence in my disposition. When she who is
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: now acting unjustly toward me favorably of me, and that
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  Speaker 4: through no fault of mine, this separation has taken place,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: I call the gods to witness. Since she considers that
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  Speaker 4: it is not befitting her to give way to my mother,
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  Speaker 4: and with readiness to conform to her temper, and as
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  Speaker 4: on no other terms, it is possible for good feeling
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  Speaker 4: to exist between them. Either my mother must be separated
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: fhidipus from me or else fil a mena. No affection
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: urges me rather to consult my mother's pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Pamphalus, your words have reached my ears, not otherwise than
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: to my satisfaction, since I find that you postpone all
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: considerations for your parent. But take care, Pamphalus, less impelled
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: by resentment, you carry matters too far?
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: How impelled by resentment? Could I now be biased against her,
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: who never has been guilt? You have anything to warn me, father,
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: that I could not wish, who has often deserved as
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: well as I could desire. I both love and praise
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: and exceedingly regret her, for I have found by experience
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: that she was a for wondrously engaging disposition with regard
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: to myself, And I sincerely wish that she may spend
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: the remainder of her life with a husband who may
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: prove more fortunate than me. Since necessity thus stares her
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  Speaker 4: from me.
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  Speaker 3: Tis in your own power to prevent that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: If you are in your senses, order her to come back.
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  Speaker 4: It is not my intention, father, I shall study my
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: mother's interests going away.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Whither are you going? Stay? Stay? I tell you whither
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: are you going?
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  Speaker 11: Exit?
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  Speaker 1: Pamphilus, Scene nine, Lacky's and Philippus, what obstinacy is this?
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Did I not tell you, Philippus, that he would take
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: this matter amiss? It was for that reason I entreated
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: you to send your daughter back.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Upon my faith, I did not believe he would be
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: so brutish. Does he now fancy that I shall come
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: beagin to him? If so it is that he chooses
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: to take back his wife, why let him if he
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: is of another mind, let him pay back her portion
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: and take himself off.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Just look at that. Now, you too, are getting obstinate
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: and huffish.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Philippus, speaking with anger.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: You have returned to us in a very ungovernable mood, Pamphilus.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: This anger will depart, though he has some reason for
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: being vexed.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Because you have had a windfall a little money, your
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: minds are elevated.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Are you going to fall out with me too?
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Let him consider and bring me word to day whether
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: he will or will not, that she may belonged to
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: another if she does not to him.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Goes hastily into his own house.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Phidippis, Stay listen to a few words.
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  Speaker 1: Scene ten Lakey's alone.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: He's off. What matters it to me? In fine? Let
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: the manage it between themselves just as they please. Since
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: neither my son nor he pay any regard to me,
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: they care but little for what I say. I'll carry
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: the quarrel to my wife, by who's planning all these
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: things have been brought about and against her. I will
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: vent all the vexation that I feel.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three, actful of Hekkira the Mother in
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• 50:21
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• 50:25
  Speaker 1: org seene one and to Marina from her house.
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: I am undone.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: What am I to do?
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: Which way turn myself in my wretchedness? What handswer am
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: I to give to my husband? For he seems to
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: have heard the voice of a child when crying. So
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: suddenly did he rush into my daughter without saying a word?
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: What if he comes to know that she has been delivered?
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: For what reason?
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: And am I to say? I kept it concealed upon
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: my face?
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: I do not know.
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: But there's the noise at the door. I believe it
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: is himself coming out to me. I'm utterly undone.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Scene too, enter Philippus from the house. Philippus to himself.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: My wife, when she saw me going to my daughter,
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: betook herself out of the house, and look there she is.
• 51:34
  Speaker 11: Addressing her.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: What have you to say, Marina? Hark you do you?
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: I speak?
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: What to me? My husband?
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Am I your husband? Do you consider me a husband
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: or a man? In fact? Four woman, if I had
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: ever appeared to you to be either of these, I
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: should not in this way have been held in derision
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: by your doings.
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: By what doings do you ask.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: The question, is not your daughter brought to bid?
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: Hey?
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Are you silent? By who.
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: Is it proper for a father to be asking such
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: a question? Oh? Second, by whom do you think pray
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: except to buy him to whom she was given in marriage?
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: I believe it, nor indeed is it for a father
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: to think otherwise. But I wonder much what the reason
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: can be for which you so very much wish all
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: of us to be in ignorance of the truths, especially
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: when she has been delivered properly and at the right time,
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: that you should be of a mind so perverse as
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: to prefer that the child should perish, through which you
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: might be sure that hereafter there would be a friendship
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: more lasting between us, rather than that at the expense
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: of your feelings, his wife should continue with him. I
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: suppose this to be their fault, while in reality it
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: lies with you.
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: I am an unhappy creature.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: I wish I were sure that it was so. But
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: now it recurs to my mind what you once said
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: about this matter when we accepted him as our son
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: in law. For you declared that you could not endure
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: your daughter to be married to a person who was
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: attached to a courtesan, and who spent his nights away
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: from home, Marina, aside.
• 54:23
  Speaker 7: Any cause, whatever I had rather should suspected than the
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: right one.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: I knew much sooner than you did, Marina, that he
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: kept a mistress. But this I never considered a crime
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: in young men, for it is natural to them all.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: For e faith, the time will soon come when even
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: he will be disgusted with himself for doing so. But
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: just as you formerly showed yourself, you have never ceased
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: to be the same up to the present time, in
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: order that you might withdraw your daughter from him, and
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: that what I did might not hold good. One thing
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: itself now plainly proves how far you wished it carried out.
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: Do you suppose that I am so wilful that I
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: could have entertained such feelings towards one whose mother I am,
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: if this match had been to our advantage?
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Can you possibly foresee or judge what is to our advantage?
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: You have heard it of someone perhaps who has told
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: you that he has seen him coming from or going
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: to his mistress. What then, if he has done so
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: with discretion? And but occasionally, is it not more kind
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: in us to conceal our knowledge of it than to
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: do our best to be aware of it, in consequence
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: of which he will detest us. For if he could
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: all at once have withdrawn himself from her, with whom
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: he has been intimate for so many years, I should
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: not have deemed him a man or likely to prove
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: a constant husband for our daughter.
• 56:36
  Speaker 7: To have done. About the young man, I pray, and
• 56:39
  Speaker 7: what you say I've been guilty of. Go away, meet
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: him by yourself, Ask him whether he wishes to have
• 56:44
  Speaker 7: her as a wife or not. If so it is
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: that he should say he does wish it, why send
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: her back. But if, on the other hand, he does
• 56:53
  Speaker 7: not wish it, I have taken the best course for
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: my child.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: And suppose he does not wish it. And you, Marina,
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: knew him to be in fault. Still, I was at
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: hand by whose advice it was proper for these matters
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: to be settled. Therefore, I am greatly offended that you
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: have presumed to act thus without my leave. I forbid
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: you to attempt to carry the child anywhere out of
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: this house. But I am very foolish to be expecting
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: her to obey my orders. I'll go indoors and charge
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: the servants to allow it to be carried out.
• 57:47
  Speaker 11: Nowhere goes into the house.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Scene three, Marina alone.
• 57:54
  Speaker 7: Upon my faith, I do believe that there's no woman
• 57:59
  Speaker 7: living more at us than I. For how he would
• 58:02
  Speaker 7: take it if he came to know the real state
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: of the case in faith is not unknown to me
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: when he bears this which is of less consequence with
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: such angry feelings, and I know not in what way
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: his sentiments can possibly be changed. Out of very many misfortunes,
• 58:23
  Speaker 7: this one evil alone had been wanting to me, for
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: him to compel me to rear a child of whom
• 58:30
  Speaker 7: we know not who is the father. For when my
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: daughter was ravished, it was so dark that his person
• 58:39
  Speaker 7: could not be distinguished, nor was anything taken from him
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: on the occasion by which it could be. Afterward discovered
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: who he was, he and leaving her, took away from
• 58:50
  Speaker 7: the girl by force a ring which he had on
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: her finger. I'm afraid, too, of Pamphilis, that he may
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: be unable will any longer to conceal what I have
• 59:02
  Speaker 7: requested when he learns that the child of another is
• 59:07
  Speaker 7: being brought up.
• 59:08
  Speaker 11: As his goes into the house.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Scene for and to Sestrata and pamphileess, it is not
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: unknown to me, my son, that I am suspected by
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: you as the cause of your wife having left our
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: house in consequence of my conduct, although you carefully conceal
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: your knowledge of it. But so may the gods prosper me,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: and so may you answer all my hopes. I have
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: never knowingly deserved that hatred of me should, with reason
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: possess her. And while I thought before that you loved me,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: on that point, you have confirmed my belief for indoors.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Your father has just now related to me in what
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: way you have preferred me to your passion. Now it
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: is my determination to return you the favor that you
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: may understand that with me lies the reward of your affection.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: My Pamphillus, I think that this is expedient both for
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: yourselves and my own reputation. I have finally resolved to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: retire hence into the country with your father, that my
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: presence may not be an obstacle, and that no pretense
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: may remain why your Philomena should not return to you?
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: Pray what sort of resolution is this? Driven away by
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: her folly? Would you be removing from the city to
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: live in the country. You shall not do so, and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: I will not permit Mother, any one who may wish
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: to censure us, to say that this has been done
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: through my perverseness and not your inclination. Besides, I do
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: not wish you, for my sake to forgo your friends
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: and relations and festive days.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: Upon my word, these things afford me no pleasure. Now,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: while my time of life permitted it, I enjoyed them enough.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 11: Satiety of that mode of life has now taken possession
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 11: of me. This is at present my chief concern, that
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 11: the length of my life may prove an annoyance to
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 11: no one, or that he may look forward with impatience
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: to my death. Here I see that, without deserving it,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: I am disliked. It is time for me to retire. Thus,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 11: in the best way I imagine, I shall cut short
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: all grounds of discontent withal I shall both free myself
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 11: from suspicion and shall be pleasing them. Pray let me
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: avoid this reproach which so generally attaches on women to
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: their disadvantage, pamvulous a sord.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: How happy am I in other respects, but not for
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: this one thing alone? In having such a good mother
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: and her for my wife.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 11: Pray my pamphillis can you not, seeing how each woman
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 11: is prevail upon yourself to put up with one matter
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 11: of inconvenience, If everything else is according to your wish,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 11: and such as I take it to be, my son,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 11: do grant me this indulgence and take her.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: Back alas ratcheant me.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 11: And me as well, for this affair does not cause
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 11: me less sorrow than you, my son.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Scene five, And to Lacky's.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: While standing by just here, I have heard wife the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: conversation you have been holding with him. It is true
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: wisdom to be enabled to govern the feelings whenever there
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: is necessity to do at the present moment, what may
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: perhaps in the end be necessary to be done.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 11: Good luck to it its truth.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Retire then into the country there I will bear with you, and.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 11: You with me, I hope.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: So if faith go indoors then and get together the
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: things that are to be taken with you. I have
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: now said it.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 11: I'll do as you desire. Goes into the house.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Father, What do you want, pamphillis.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: My mother go away? By no means?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: Why would you have it so?
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  Speaker 4: Because I am as yet undetermined what I shall do
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: about my wife?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: How is that?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: What should you intend? To do but bring her home.
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  Speaker 4: For my part, I could like and can hardly forbear it.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: But I shall not alter my design. That which is
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: most advantageous I shall pursue. I suppose that they will
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: be better reconciled in consequence if I shall take her back.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: You cannot tell. But it matters nothing to you which
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: they do when she has gone away. Persons of this
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: age are disliked by young people. It is right for
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: us to withdraw from the world in fine we are
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: now a nice by word, we are pamphillis the old
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: man and the old woman. But I see Philippus coming
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: out just at the time. That's accost him.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Scene six, and to Philippus from his house, Philippus speaking
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: at the door to Volumina within.
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  Speaker 3: Upon my faith, I am angry with you too, Philamena,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: extremely so, for on my word, you have acted badly.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: Still there is an excuse for you in this matter.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Your mother forced you to it, but for her there
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: is none.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Lakey's accosting him.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: The depis you meet me at a lucky moment, just
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: at the very time.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 11: What's the matter, Pamphless aside?
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: What answer shall I make them? On what manner?
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 11: Keep the secret Lakey's to Phitippus.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Tell your daughter that Sostrata is going into the country,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: that she may not now be afraid of returning home.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: Alas your wife has been guilty of no fault in
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: this affair. All this mischief has been originated by my wife, Marina.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 11: Pamphless aside, they are changing sides.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: Tis she that causes our disturbances?
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 11: Latches Pamphless aside.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: So long as I don't take her back, let her
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: costs as much disturbance as she pleases.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: I Pamphylus could really wish if it were possible this
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: alliance between us to be lasting. If you are otherwise inclined,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: still take the child.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 11: Pamphless aside.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: He has discovered that she has been brought to bed.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: I'm undone the child?
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: What child?
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: We have had? A grandson born to us? For my
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: daughter was removed from you in a state of pregnancy,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: and yet never before this day did I know that
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: she was pregnant.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: So may the gods prosper me. You bring good tidings,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: and I am glad a child has been born and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: that she is safe. But what kind of woman have
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: you for a wife? Or of what sort of a
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: temper that we should have been kept in ignorance of
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: this so long. I cannot sufficiently express how disgraceful this
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: conduct appears to me.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: This conduct does not vex me less than yourself, Duchess.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: Pamphless aside, even if it had just now been a
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: matter of doubt to me, it is so no longer,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: since the child of another man is to accompany.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Her and Phyllis, there is no room now for deliberation
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: for you in this.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Matter, Pamphless aside, I am undone. Lackeys to Pamphless.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: We were often longing to see the day on which
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: there should be one to call your father. It has
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: come to pass. I return, thanks to the gods.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Pamphless aside, I am fruent.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Take home your wife, and don't oppose my will.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: Father. If you had wished to have children by me,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: or to continue to be my wife, I am quite
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: certain she would not have concealed from me what I
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: find she has concealed now. As I find that her
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: mind is estranged from me, and think that there would
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: be no agreement between us in future, why should I
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: take her back?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: The young woman has done what her mother persuaded her.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: Is that to be wondered at do you suppose you
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: can find any woman who is free from fault? Or
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: is it that men have no failings?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: Do you yourself now consider Lutches and you, Pamphilus, whether
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: it is most advisable for you to leave her or
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: take her back? What your wife may do is not
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: in my control. Under neither circumstance you meet with any
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: difficulty from me. But what are we to do with
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: the child?
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: You do ask an absurd question. Whatever happens, send him
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: back his child, of course, that we may bring it up?
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Is ours, Pamphilus in a low voice.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: A child which the father has abandoned? Am I too rear?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: What was it you said? How not rear? At pamphillis prithee?
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: Are we to expose it in preference? What madness is this? Really?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: I cannot now be silent any longer, for you forced
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: me to say, in.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: His presence, pointing to Philippus, what.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: I would rather not? Do you suppose I am in
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: ignorance of the cause of your tears, or what it
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: is on account of which you are perplexed to this
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: degree In the first place, when you alleged as a
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: reason that on account of your mother you could not
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: have your wife at home. She promised that she would
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: leave the house. Now, since you see this pretext as
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: well taken away from you, because a child has been
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: born without your knowledge, you have got another. You are
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: mistaken if you suppose that I am ignorant of your feelings,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: that at last you might prevailed upon your feelings to
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: take this step. How long a period for loving a
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: mistress did I allow you?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: With?
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: What patience did I bear the expense you were at
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: in keeping her? I remonstrated with you and entreated you
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: to take a wife. I said that it was time,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: by my persuasions you married. What you then did in
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: obedience to me, you did as became you. Now again
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: you have set your fancy upon a mistress, and to
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: gratify her, you do an injury to the other as well.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: For I see plainly you have once more relapsed due
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: to the same course of life what I your own,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: and you act unjustly. Therein you feign false grounds for
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: discord that you may live with her when you have
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: gotten rid of this witness of your actions. Your wife
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: has perceived it too, For what other reason had she
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: for leaving you?
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 11: Philippus to himself.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: It's clear he guess he is right, for that must
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: be it.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: I will give you my oath that none of these
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: is the reason.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: Oh take home your wife, or tell me why you
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: should not.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: It is not the time at present take.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: The child, for surely that is not in fault. I
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: will consider about the mother afterwards.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: Pamphilus a part in every way? I am wretched, and
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: what to do I know? Not so many troubles is
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: my father now besetting wretched me on every side. I'll
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: go away from here, since I avail but little by
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: my presence, For without my consent, I do not believe
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: that they will bring up the child. Especially is on
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: that point my mother in law will second me.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: Exits speedily. Scene seven Lackys and Phiedipus Lakey's to Pamphilus.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Do you run away? What? And give me no distinct answer?
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: To Philippus does he seem to.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: You to be in his senses? Let him alone, Phidippus,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: give me the child. I'll bring it up.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: By all means. No wonder if my wife has taken
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: this amiss. Women are reason, for they do not easily
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: put up with such things. Hence the anger of hers,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: for she herself told me of it. I would not
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: mention this to you in his presence, and at first
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: I did not really, But now it is true, beyond
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: the doubts, for I see that his feelings are altogether
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: adverse to marriage.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: What am I to do, then, Philippus, what advice do
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: you give?
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: What are you to do? I am our opinion that
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: first we ought to go to this mistress of his.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: Let us use entreaties with her, then let us rebuke her,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: and at last let us very seriously threaten her if
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: she gives him any encouragement in the future.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I will do as you.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: Advise, turning to an attendant, Oh.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: There, boy, run to the house of Bacchus. Here our
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: neighbor desire her and my name to come hither, Exit attendant,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: and you, I further entreat to give me your assistance
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: and their well.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: I have already said, and now I say again to
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: the same effect, Matches. I wish this alliance between us
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: to continue, if by any means it possibly may, which
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: I trust will be the case. But should you like
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: me to be with you while you meet her.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Why yes, But first go and get someone as a
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: nurse for the child.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: Exit Phitipus, Scene eight, and to Bacchis attended by her women,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Bacchus to her women.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 8: It is not for nothing that Lackys now desires to
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: speak with me, and in faith, I am not very
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: far from mistaking in making a guess what it is
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 8: he wants me for.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 11: Blakey's to himself.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: I must take care that I don't, through anger, misgaining
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: in this quarter what I otherwise might, and that I
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: don't do anything which hereafter it would have been better
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: I had not done. I'll accost her, accost sir Bacchez.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: Good moral to.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 8: You, Good morrow to you.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Lay troth Now, Bacchus, I suppose you somewhat wonder what
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: can be my reason for sending the lad to fetch
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: you out of doors?
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 8: Upon my faith, I am even in some anxiety as
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 8: well when I reflect what I am lest the name
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 8: of my calling should be to my prejudice for my
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 8: behavior I can easily defend.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: If you speak the truth, you will be no danger
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: woman from me. Or I am now of that age
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: that it is not meet for me to receive forgiveness
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: for a fault. For that reason, do iither more carefully
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: attend to every particular that I may not act with rashness,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: or if you now do or intend to do that
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: which is proper for deserving women to do, it would
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: be unjust for me, in my ignorance, to offer an
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: injury to you, when undeserving of it.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 8: On my word, great is the gratitude that I ought
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 8: to feel toward you for such conduct. For he who
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 8: after committing an injury would excuse himself, would profit me
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 8: but little.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: But what is the matter you admit? My son pamphillis
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: to your house? Ah, Let me speak. Before he was
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: married to this woman I tolerated you are more stay.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: I have not yet said to you what I intended.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: He has now got a wife. Look out for another
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: person more to be depended on while you have time
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: to deliberate. For neither will he be of this mind
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: or his life, nor in faith will you be always
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: of your present age?
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 8: Who is it?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: Says this his mother in law? What that I that
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: you do? And she has taken away her daughter and
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: for that reason has wished secretly to destroy the child
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: that has been born?
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 8: Did I know any other means whereby I might be
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 8: enabled to establish my credit with you? More solemn than
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 8: an oath. I would like ye's assure you of this
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 8: that I have kept Pamphillis at a distance from me
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 8: ever since he took a wife.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: You are very good, But pray, do you know what
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: I would prefer that you should do?
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 8: What tell me?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: Go indoors there, pointing to the house of Philippus.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: To the women, and make the same promise on oath
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: to them. Satisfy their minds and clear yourself from this charge.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 7: I will do.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 8: So, although in faith, if it had been any other
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 8: woman of this calling, she would not have done so.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 8: I am quite sure present herself before a married woman
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 8: for such a purpose. But I do not wish your
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 8: son to be suspected on an unfounded report, nor appear
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 8: inconstant undeservedly to you, to whom he by no means ought,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 8: for he has deserved of me, that, so far as
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 8: I am able, I should do him as service.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Your language has rendered me quite friendly and will disposed
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: toward you. But not only did they think so, I
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: too believed it now that I had found you quite
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: different from what I had expected. Take care that you
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: still continue the same. Make use of my friendship as
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: you please. If otherwise, But I will forbear that you
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: may not hear anything unkind from me. What does one
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: thing I recommend you make trial? What sort of a
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: friend I am? Or what I can affect as such?
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: Rather than what as an enemy?
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: See nine Enter Philippas and a nurse. Philippas to the nurse.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: Nothing at my house will I suffer you to be
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: in want of? But whatever is requisite shall be supployed
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: you in abundance. Still, when you are well fed and
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: well drenched, do take care that the child has enough.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: The nurse goes into his house, Lakey's to Baccis.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: My son's father in law. I see is coming. He
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: is bringing a nurse for the child. Accosting him, Phidippis,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Bargus swears more solemnly, is this she?
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: It is upon my faith. These women don't fear the gods,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: and I don't think that the gods care about them.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Bacchus, pointing to her attendants.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: I will give you up my female servants with my
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 8: full permission, examining them with any tortures you please. The
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 8: business at present is this. I must make his wife
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 8: return home to Pamphillo's. Should I affect that, I shall
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 8: not regret its being reported that I have been the
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 8: only one to do what other courtesans avoid doing.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: We find, Phidippus, that our wives have been unjustly suspected
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: by us in this matter. Let us now try her
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: still further. Or if your wife discovers that she has
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: given credence to a false charge, she will dismiss her resentment.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: But if my son is also angry by reason of
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: the circumstance that his wife has been brought to bed
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: without his knowledge, that is a trifle. His anger on
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: that account will speedily subside assuredly. In this manner, there
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: is nothing so bad as to be deserving of a separation.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: I sincerely wish it may be so.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: Them in her here she is, she herself will satisfy you.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: Why do you tell me these things? Is it because
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: you have not already heard what my feelings are with
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: regard to this matter? Larches, do you only satisfy their minds?
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: Wroth now, Bacchus, I do entreat that what you have
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: promised me you will do.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 8: Would you wish me then to go in about this business.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: Go and satisfy their minds so as to make them
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: believe it.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 8: I'll go, although upon my word I am quite sure
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 8: that my presence will be disagreeable to them, For a
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 8: married woman is the enemy of a mistress when she
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 8: has been separated from her husband.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: But they will be your friends when they know the
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: reason of your coming.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: And I promise that they shall be your friends when
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: they know the fact, for you will release them from
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: their mistake, and yourself at the same time from suspicion.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 7: Wretched me, I.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 8: Am ashamed to meet Philomona. To her attendants, do you
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 8: both follow me into the house?
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: Goes into the house with Phylippus and her attendants.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Lakey's to himself, what is there that I could more
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: wish for than what I see has happened to this woman?
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: To gain favor without loss to myself and to benefit
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: myself at the same time. For if now it is
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: the fact that she has really withdrawn from pamphillis she
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: knows that by that step she has acquired honor and reputation,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: She returns the favor to him, and by the same
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: means attaches us as friends to herself.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 11: Goes into the house and of act for.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Act five of Hekkaira, the mother in Law by Terence
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: translated by Henry Thomas Riley. This is a Liveryvox recording.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: All Liveryvox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit leveryvox dot org. Scene one,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: enter Parmoner moving along with difficulty. Parmoner to himself.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: Upon my faith, My master does assuredly think my labor
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 6: of little value to have sent me for nothing. Where
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 6: I have been sitting the whole day to no purpose,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 6: waiting at the citadel for Kaliedamodes, his landlord at Myconos.
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  Speaker 6: And so whilst sitting there to day like a fool,
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  Speaker 6: as each person came by, I accosted him, young man,
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  Speaker 6: just tell me, pray, are you a Myconian? I am not?
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  Speaker 6: But is your name Kliedimedes? No? Have you any farmer
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  Speaker 6: guest here named Pamphilis? All said no, and I don't
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  Speaker 6: believe there is any such person. At last the faith
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  Speaker 6: I was quite ashamed and went away. But how is
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  Speaker 6: it I see Bacchis coming out of our neighbors. What
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  Speaker 6: business can she have there?
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  Speaker 1: Scene too, and Tobacchus from the house of Philippes.
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  Speaker 8: Parmeno, you make your appearance opportunely run with all speed
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  Speaker 8: to Penphillus.
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  Speaker 6: Why thither say that I entreat.
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  Speaker 8: Him to come to your house? No, to Philomena, what's
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  Speaker 8: the matter? Nothing that concerns you? So cease to make inquiry?
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  Speaker 6: Am I to say nothing else?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, that Marina has recognized that ring as her daughter's,
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  Speaker 8: which he formerly gave me.
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  Speaker 6: I understand is that all that's all?
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  Speaker 8: He will be here directly. He has heard this from you.
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  Speaker 8: But do you linger.
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  Speaker 6: Far from it? Indeed, for I'm not the opportunity given
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  Speaker 6: to me to day, so much with running and walking
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  Speaker 6: about have I wasted the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Day goes into the house of Lakey's Scene three, Bacchus alone.
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  Speaker 8: What great joy have I caused for pamphillis by my
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  Speaker 8: coming to day? How many blessings have I brought him?
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  Speaker 8: And from how many sorrows have I rescued him? A son,
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  Speaker 8: I say for him, when it was nearly perishing, through
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  Speaker 8: the agency of these women and of himself, a wife
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  Speaker 8: whom he thought that he must cast off forever, I
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  Speaker 8: restored to him from the suspicion that he lay under
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  Speaker 8: with his father and Philippus, I have cleared him this ring.
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  Speaker 8: In fact, was the cause of these discoveries being made.
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  Speaker 8: For I remember that about ten months ago, at an
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  Speaker 8: early hour of night, he came running home to my
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  Speaker 8: house out of breath, without a companion, and surcharged with
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  Speaker 8: wine with this ring in his and I felt alarmed. Immediately,
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  Speaker 8: my pamphiless, I said, prithee, my dear, why does breathless?
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  Speaker 8: Or where did you get that ring?
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  Speaker 9: Tell me?
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  Speaker 8: He began to pretend that he was thinking of something else.
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  Speaker 8: When I saw that, I began to suspect, I know
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  Speaker 8: not what, and to press him still more to tell me.
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  Speaker 8: The fellow confessed that he had ravished some female he knew,
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  Speaker 8: not whom, in the street, and said that while she
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  Speaker 8: was struggling, he had taken that ring away from her.
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  Speaker 8: Marina here recognized it just now while I had it
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  Speaker 8: on my finger, she asked, whence it came? I told
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  Speaker 8: her all the story. Hence the discovery has been made
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  Speaker 8: that it was Philomina ravished by him, and that this
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  Speaker 8: new born child is his. I am overjoyed that this
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  Speaker 8: happiness has befallen him through my agency, although other courtesans
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  Speaker 8: would not have similar feelings, nor indeed, is it to
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  Speaker 8: our interest that any lover should find pleasure in matrimony,
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  Speaker 8: but in faith, I never, for the sake of gain,
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  Speaker 8: will give my mind to base actions. So long as
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  Speaker 8: I had the opportunity, I found him to be kind,
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  Speaker 8: easy and good natured. This marriage has fallen out unluckily
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  Speaker 8: for me, that I confess to be the fact. But
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  Speaker 8: upon my word, I do think that I have done
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  Speaker 8: nothing for it to befall me deservedly. It is but
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  Speaker 8: reasonable to endure inconveniences from one from whom I have
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  Speaker 8: received so many benefits.
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  Speaker 1: Scene four, And to Pamphilus and Parmoner from the house
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  Speaker 1: of Lakey's on the other side of the stage once more.
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  Speaker 4: Take care, will you, my dear pon Menno, that you
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  Speaker 4: have brought me a faithful and distinct account, so as
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  Speaker 4: not to allure me for a short time to indulge
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  Speaker 4: in these transient joys.
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  Speaker 6: I've taken care for certain, For certain, huh.
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  Speaker 4: I am quite a god.
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  Speaker 6: If it is so, you'll find it true.
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  Speaker 4: Just stay, will you. I fear that I'm believing one
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  Speaker 4: thing and you are telling another.
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  Speaker 6: I am staying.
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  Speaker 4: I think you said to this effect that Marina had
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  Speaker 4: discovered that Bacchis has her ring. It is the fact
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  Speaker 4: the one I formerly gave to her, and she has
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  Speaker 4: desired you to tell me this is such? The fact
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  Speaker 4: such is so, I tell you, who is there happier
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  Speaker 4: than I, and in fact more full of joyousness? What
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  Speaker 4: am I to present you for these tidings? What?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: I know?
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  Speaker 3: Not?
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  Speaker 4: But I know what?
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  Speaker 6: Why? Nothing? For neither in the tidings nor in myself
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  Speaker 6: do I know of there being any advantage to you?
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  Speaker 4: What am I to suffer you, who have cost me,
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  Speaker 4: when dead, to be restored from the shades to life,
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  Speaker 4: to leave me unrewarded? Oh me too, thankless. But look
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  Speaker 4: I see backs standing before the door. She is waiting
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  Speaker 4: for me. I suppose all the cost her save you, pamphless,
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  Speaker 4: Oh bacchus, Oh my back is my preserver.
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  Speaker 8: It is a fortunate thing and gives me great delight.
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  Speaker 4: By your actions, you give me reason to believe you.
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  Speaker 4: And so much do you retain your former charming qualities,
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  Speaker 4: that wherever you go, the meeting with you, your company,
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  Speaker 4: your conversation always give pleasure.
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  Speaker 8: And you, upon my word, possess your former manners and
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  Speaker 8: disposition so much so that not a single man living
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  Speaker 8: is more engaging than you.
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  Speaker 4: Do you tell me so.
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  Speaker 8: You had reason, Pampherless, for being so fond of your wife,
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  Speaker 8: For never before today did I set eyes upon her
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  Speaker 8: so as to know her. She's it seems a very
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  Speaker 8: gentle person.
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  Speaker 4: Tell the truth.
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  Speaker 8: So may the gods bless me, Pampiless tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Have you as yet told any of these matters to
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  Speaker 4: my father?
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  Speaker 8: Not a word?
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  Speaker 4: Nor is there need? In fact? Therefore keep it a secret.
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  Speaker 4: I don't wish it to be the case here as
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  Speaker 4: it is in the comedies, where everything is known to everybody. Here,
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  Speaker 4: those who ought to know know already, but those who
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  Speaker 4: ought not to know shall neither hear of it nor
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  Speaker 4: know it.
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  Speaker 8: Nay more, I will give you a proof why you
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  Speaker 8: may suppose that this may be the more easily concealed.
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  Speaker 8: Marina has told Philippas to this effect, that she has
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  Speaker 8: given credit to my oath, and that in consequence, in
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  Speaker 8: her eyes you are exculpated most excellent.
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  Speaker 4: And I trust that this matter will turn out according
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  Speaker 4: to our wishes.
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  Speaker 6: Master may not be alw to know from you what
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  Speaker 6: is the good I have done to day, or what
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  Speaker 6: it is you are talking about. You may not still
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  Speaker 6: I suspect I restore him when dead from the shades below.
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  Speaker 4: In what way you don't know, Permenno, how much you
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  Speaker 4: have benefited me to day and from what troubles you
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  Speaker 4: have extricated me.
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  Speaker 6: Nay, but indeed I do know, and I did not
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  Speaker 6: do it without design.
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  Speaker 4: I know that well.
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  Speaker 8: Enough could Parmenau from negligence omid anything that ought to
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  Speaker 8: be done.
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  Speaker 12: Follow me in permeno, I'll follow for my part, Hm,
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  Speaker 12: I have done more good to day without knowing it
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  Speaker 12: than ever I did knowingly in all my life.
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  Speaker 11: Coming forward, grant.
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  Speaker 6: Us your applause.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act five. End of Hecaira, The Mother in
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  Speaker 1: Law by Terence translated by Henry Thomas Arley,