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HALISCA
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But still he looks for it in vain.
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LAMPADISCUS
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But, by my faith, good woman, in no matter does this certain man give his pains for nothing.
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PHANOSTRATA
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Lend me your conversation: it will now be for your own advantage. We confess that we have got the casket.
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HALISCA
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Then may Salvation preserve you; where is it now?
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PHANOSTRATA
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See, here it is, safe. But I wish to discourse with you upon a matter of importance to myself; I take you as a sharer with me in my own preservation.
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HALISCA
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What matter is this, or who are you?
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PHANOSTRATA
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I am the mother of her who had these things with her, when exposed.
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HALISCA
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Do you live here then?
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PHANOSTRATA
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You are a diviner. But, prithee, good woman, do lay aside all mystification, and to the point; tell me at once, whence did you get these trinkets?
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HALISCA
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This daughter of my mistress had them.
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LAMPADISCUS
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You tell a falsehood; for my own mistress’s daughter had them, not yours.
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PHANOSTRATA
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Don’t interrupt.
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LAMPADISCUS
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I’ll be mum.
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PHANOSTRATA
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Good woman, go on speaking. Where is she who had them?
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HALISCA
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Here, next door.
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PHANOSTRATA
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By the powers, surely the son-in-law of my husband is living there.
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LAMPADISCUS
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Surely—
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PHANOSTRATA
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Interrupting again? (To HALISCA.) Go on relating it. How many years old is she said to be?
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HALISCA
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Seventeen.
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PHANOSTRATA
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She is my own daughter then!
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LAMPADISCUS
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’Tis she, as the number of her years has proved.
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HALISCA
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What you are seeking, you have found; I now seek what’s mine.
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LAMPADISCUS
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Why, faith, they’ve found what’s their own, I’ll seek for number three For number three: Quaero tertiam. Literally, I seek a third. This he says by way of joke; as one has been looking for her daughter another for the casket, he must look for something as well, a mistress, to wit..
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PHANOSTRATA
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My daughter, the object which I was seeking, I have discovered.
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HALISCA
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It’s proper to keep in safety what has been entrusted in confidence, lest a kindness should turn out a detriment to the well-deserving. This fosterling of ours is assuredly your daughter,
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and my mistress is about to restore you your own, and for that purpose has she come from her house. But, prithee,
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enquire of her own self; I am but a servant.
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PHANOSTRATA
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You ask what’s just.
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HALISCA
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To her rather do I choose this obligation to belong. But I beg that you’ll restore me that casket.
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PHANOSTRATA
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What’s to be done, Lampadio?
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LAMPADISCUS
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What’s your own, keep as your own.
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PHANOSTRATA
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But I feel compassion for her.
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LAMPADISCUS
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This I think ought to be done;
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give her the casket, and go in-doors together with her.
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PHANOSTRATA
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I’ll follow your advice. (Giving it to HALISCA.) Take you the casket. Let’s go in-doors. But what’s the name of your mistress?
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HALISCA
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Melaenis.
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PHANOSTRATA
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Go first; I’ll follow you at once.
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DEMIPHO
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What affair is this, that all persons are talking about in the street—that my daughter has been found? They say, too, that LampadioLampadio: Lampadiscus is called here, and in Act IV., Lampadio. This was probably intended as a familiar name, by which the family called him; though some Commentators are of opinion that Lampadio is the real name, and Lampadiscus a diminutive. has been seeking me in the Forum.
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LAMPADISCUS
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Master, whence come you?
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DEMIPHO
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From the Senate.
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LAMPADISCUS
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I rejoice that through my means there is an addition to your children.
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DEMIPHO
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But it don’t please me; I don’t want that I should be having more children by means of another person. But what is the meaning of this?
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LAMPADISCUS
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Make haste, and go in-doors here to the house of your neighbour; you’ll at once recognize your daughter. Your wife’s in-doors there as well. Go quickly.
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DEMIPHO
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I’m resolved that this shall, before all other matters, be attended to.
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The Company of COMEDIANS
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Don’t you wait, Spectators, till they come out to you; no one will come out; they’ll all finish the business indoors; when that shall be done, they’ll lay aside their dress; then, after that,
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he that has done amiss will get a beating Get a beating: It has been already remarked, that as the actors in early times were slaves, it was the custom after the Play was over for the Aediles to order those to be flogged who had not given satisfaction to the Audience.; he that has not done amiss will get some drink. Now as to what’s left, Spectators, for you to do, after the manner of your ancestors, give your applause at the conclusion of the Play.