{"id":131,"date":"2020-08-07T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/milesgloriosus\/?post_type=chapter&p=131"},"modified":"2021-01-19T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:30:39","slug":"act-four-scene-six","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/chapter\/act-four-scene-six\/","title":{"raw":"Act Four, Scene Six","rendered":"Act Four, Scene Six"},"content":{"raw":"Enter ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA from the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.<\/i>\r\n\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nin a low voice<\/i>. Mistress, see! the Captain's near.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\nin a low voice<\/i>. Where is he?\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nOnly look to the left. Eye him askance, that he mayn't perceive that we are looking at him.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\nI see him. Troth, now's the time, in our mischief, for us to become supremely mischievous.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\n'Tis for you to begin.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Prithee, did you see him yourself? Aside<\/I>. Don't spare your voice, so that he may hear.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. By my troth, I talked with his own self, at my ease, as long as I pleased, at my leisure, at my own discretion, just as I wished.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. Do you hear what she says?\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. I hear. How delighted she is because she had access to you.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. O happy woman that you are!\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nHow I do seem to be loved!\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nYou are deserving of it.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. By my troth, 'tis passing strange what you say, that you had access to him and prevailed. They say that he is usually addressed, like a king, through letters or messengers.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. But, i' faith, 'twas with difficulty I had an opportunity of approaching and beseeching him.\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. How renowned you are among the fair\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO.<\/i>\u00a0I shall submit, since Venus wills it so.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. By heavens! I return to Venus grateful thanks, and her I do beseech and entreat, that I may win him whom I love and whom I seek to win, and that to me he may prove gentle, and not make a difficulty about what I desire.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. I hope it may be so; although many ladies are seeking to win him for themselves, he disdains them and estranges himself from all but you alone.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Therefore this fear torments me, since he is so disdainful, lest his eyes, when he beholds me, should change his sentiments, and his own gracefulness should at once disdain my form.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. He will not do so; be of good heart.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. How she does slight herself!\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. I fear lest your account may have surpassed my looks.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>I've taken care of this, that you shall be fairer than his expectations.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Troth, if he shall refuse to take me as his wife, by heavens I'll embrace his knees and entreat him! If I shall be unable to prevail on him, in some way or other, I'll put myself to death. I'm quite sure that without him I cannot live.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. I see that I must prevent this woman's death. Shall I accost her?\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nBy no means; for you will be making yourself cheap if you lavish yourself away of your own accord. Let her come spontaneously, seek you, court you, strive to win you. Unless you wish to lose that glory which you have, please have a care what you do. For I know that this was never the lot of any mortal, except two persons, yourself and Phaon of\u00a0<\/span>Lesbos[footnote]Phaon of Lesbos: Sappho, the poetess, was enamoured of Phaon the Lesbian. When he deserted her, she threw herself from the Leucadian promontory or Lover\u2019s Leap, which was supposed to provide a cure for unrequited love. Her death was the consequence. See her Epistle to Phaon, the twenty-first of the Heroides of Ovid.[\/footnote]<\/span>, to be loved so desperately.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. I'll go in-doors[footnote]I\u2019ll go indoors: It must be remembered, that all this time they have pretended not to see Palaestrio or his master. Milphidippa cautioned her mistress only to take a side-glance at him (limis), after which they have, probably turned their backs.[\/footnote]--or, my dear Milphidippa, do you call him out of doors.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Aye; let's wait until some one comes out.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. I can't restrain myself from going il to him.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. The door's fastened. ACROT.\u00a0<\/span>aloud<\/i>. I'll break it in then.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. You are not in your senses.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. If he has ever loved, or if he has wisdom equal to his beauty, whatever I may do through love, he will pardon me by reason of his compassionate feelings.\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. Prithee, do see, how distracted the poor thing is with love.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. 'Tis mutual in us.\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nHush! Don't you let her hear.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Why do you stand stupefied? Why don't you knock?\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Because he is not within whom I want.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. How do you know[footnote]How do you know: In Ritschel\u2019s edition, these words are attributed to Palaestrio. This is clearly a mistake, for Palaestrio has not yet joined in their conversation. He and his master are listening to what they say.[\/footnote]?\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. By my troth, I do know it easily; for my nose would scent him if he were within.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. She is a diviner. Because she is in love with me, Venus has made her prophesy.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. He is somewhere or other close at hand whom I do so long to behold. I'm sure I smell him.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. Troth, now, she really sees better with her nose than with her eyes.\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. She is blind from love.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Prithee, do support me.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Why?\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Lest I should fall.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Why?\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Because I cannot stand; my senses--my senses are sinking so by reason of my eyes.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Heavens! you've seen the Captain.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. I have.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. I don't see him. Where is he?\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. Troth, you would see him if you were in tove.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. I' faith, you don't love him more than I do myself, with your good leave.\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. No doubt all of the women, as soon as each has seen you, are in love with you.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. I don't know whether you have heard it from me or not; I'm the grandson of Venus.\r\n\r\nACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>\r\naloud<\/i>. My dear Milphidippa, prithee do approach and accost him.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. How she does stand in awe of me!\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>. She is coming towards us.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nadvancing<\/i>. I wish to speak with you.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nAnd we with you.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nI have brought my mistress out of the house, as you requested me.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nSo I see.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nRequest her, then, to approach.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nSince you have entreated it, I have prevailed upon my mind not to detest her just like other women.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nI' faith she wouldn't be able to utter a word if she were to come near you; while she was looking at you, her eyes have in the meantime tied her tongue.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nI see that this woman's disorder must be cured.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nSee how terrified she is since she beheld you.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nEven armed men are the same; don't wonder at a woman being so. But what does she wish me to do?\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nYou to come to her house; she wishes to live and to pass her life with you.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nWhat!--I come home to her, when she is a married woman? Her husband is to be stood in fear of.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nWhy,--for your sake, she has turned her husband out of her house.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nHow? How could she do so?\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nThe house was her marriage-portion.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nWas it so?\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nIt was so, on my word.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nBid her go home; I'll be there just now.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nTake care, and don't keep her in expectation; don't torment her feelings.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nNot I, indeed. Do you go then.\r\n\r\nMILPHIDIPPA<\/b>\r\nWe are going.\u00a0<\/span>ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.<\/i>\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nBut what do I see?\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nWhat do you see?\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nSee there, some one is coming, I know not who, but in a sailor's dress.\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nHe is surely wanting us, now; really, it is the shipmaster.\r\n\r\nPYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>\r\nHe's come, I suppose, to fetch her.\r\n\r\nPALAESTRIO<\/b>\r\nI fancy so.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

Enter ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA from the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.<\/i><\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nin a low voice<\/i>. Mistress, see! the Captain’s near.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\nin a low voice<\/i>. Where is he?<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nOnly look to the left. Eye him askance, that he mayn’t perceive that we are looking at him.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\nI see him. Troth, now’s the time, in our mischief, for us to become supremely mischievous.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\n‘Tis for you to begin.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Prithee, did you see him yourself? Aside<\/i>. Don’t spare your voice, so that he may hear.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. By my troth, I talked with his own self, at my ease, as long as I pleased, at my leisure, at my own discretion, just as I wished.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. Do you hear what she says?<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. I hear. How delighted she is because she had access to you.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. O happy woman that you are!<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nHow I do seem to be loved!<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nYou are deserving of it.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. By my troth, ’tis passing strange what you say, that you had access to him and prevailed. They say that he is usually addressed, like a king, through letters or messengers.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. But, i’ faith, ’twas with difficulty I had an opportunity of approaching and beseeching him.<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. How renowned you are among the fair<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO.<\/i>\u00a0I shall submit, since Venus wills it so.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. By heavens! I return to Venus grateful thanks, and her I do beseech and entreat, that I may win him whom I love and whom I seek to win, and that to me he may prove gentle, and not make a difficulty about what I desire.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. I hope it may be so; although many ladies are seeking to win him for themselves, he disdains them and estranges himself from all but you alone.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Therefore this fear torments me, since he is so disdainful, lest his eyes, when he beholds me, should change his sentiments, and his own gracefulness should at once disdain my form.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. He will not do so; be of good heart.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. How she does slight herself!<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. I fear lest your account may have surpassed my looks.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>I’ve taken care of this, that you shall be fairer than his expectations.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Troth, if he shall refuse to take me as his wife, by heavens I’ll embrace his knees and entreat him! If I shall be unable to prevail on him, in some way or other, I’ll put myself to death. I’m quite sure that without him I cannot live.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. I see that I must prevent this woman’s death. Shall I accost her?<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nBy no means; for you will be making yourself cheap if you lavish yourself away of your own accord. Let her come spontaneously, seek you, court you, strive to win you. Unless you wish to lose that glory which you have, please have a care what you do. For I know that this was never the lot of any mortal, except two persons, yourself and Phaon of\u00a0<\/span>Lesbos[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, to be loved so desperately.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. I’ll go in-doors[2]<\/sup><\/a>–or, my dear Milphidippa, do you call him out of doors.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Aye; let’s wait until some one comes out.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. I can’t restrain myself from going il to him.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. The door’s fastened. ACROT.\u00a0<\/span>aloud<\/i>. I’ll break it in then.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. You are not in your senses.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. If he has ever loved, or if he has wisdom equal to his beauty, whatever I may do through love, he will pardon me by reason of his compassionate feelings.<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. Prithee, do see, how distracted the poor thing is with love.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. ‘Tis mutual in us.<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nHush! Don’t you let her hear.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Why do you stand stupefied? Why don’t you knock?<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Because he is not within whom I want.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. How do you know[3]<\/sup><\/a>?<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. By my troth, I do know it easily; for my nose would scent him if he were within.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. She is a diviner. Because she is in love with me, Venus has made her prophesy.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. He is somewhere or other close at hand whom I do so long to behold. I’m sure I smell him.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. Troth, now, she really sees better with her nose than with her eyes.<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. She is blind from love.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Prithee, do support me.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Why?<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Lest I should fall.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Why?<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Because I cannot stand; my senses–my senses are sinking so by reason of my eyes.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Heavens! you’ve seen the Captain.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. I have.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. I don’t see him. Where is he?<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. Troth, you would see him if you were in tove.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. I’ faith, you don’t love him more than I do myself, with your good leave.<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>. No doubt all of the women, as soon as each has seen you, are in love with you.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. I don’t know whether you have heard it from me or not; I’m the grandson of Venus.<\/p>\n

ACROTELEUTIUM<\/b>
\naloud<\/i>. My dear Milphidippa, prithee do approach and accost him.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nto PALAESTRIO<\/i>. How she does stand in awe of me!<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nto PYRGOPOLINICES<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>. She is coming towards us.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nadvancing<\/i>. I wish to speak with you.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nAnd we with you.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nI have brought my mistress out of the house, as you requested me.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nSo I see.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nRequest her, then, to approach.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nSince you have entreated it, I have prevailed upon my mind not to detest her just like other women.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nI’ faith she wouldn’t be able to utter a word if she were to come near you; while she was looking at you, her eyes have in the meantime tied her tongue.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nI see that this woman’s disorder must be cured.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nSee how terrified she is since she beheld you.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nEven armed men are the same; don’t wonder at a woman being so. But what does she wish me to do?<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nYou to come to her house; she wishes to live and to pass her life with you.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nWhat!–I come home to her, when she is a married woman? Her husband is to be stood in fear of.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nWhy,–for your sake, she has turned her husband out of her house.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nHow? How could she do so?<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nThe house was her marriage-portion.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nWas it so?<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nIt was so, on my word.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nBid her go home; I’ll be there just now.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nTake care, and don’t keep her in expectation; don’t torment her feelings.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nNot I, indeed. Do you go then.<\/p>\n

MILPHIDIPPA<\/b>
\nWe are going.\u00a0<\/span>ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.<\/i><\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nBut what do I see?<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nWhat do you see?<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nSee there, some one is coming, I know not who, but in a sailor’s dress.<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nHe is surely wanting us, now; really, it is the shipmaster.<\/p>\n

PYRGOPOLINICES<\/b>
\nHe’s come, I suppose, to fetch her.<\/p>\n

PALAESTRIO<\/b>
\nI fancy so.<\/p>\n

  1. Phaon of Lesbos: Sappho, the poetess, was enamoured of Phaon the Lesbian. When he deserted her, she threw herself from the Leucadian promontory or Lover\u2019s Leap, which was supposed to provide a cure for unrequited love. Her death was the consequence. See her Epistle to Phaon, the twenty-first of the Heroides of Ovid. ↵<\/a><\/li>
  2. I\u2019ll go indoors: It must be remembered, that all this time they have pretended not to see Palaestrio or his master. Milphidippa cautioned her mistress only to take a side-glance at him (limis), after which they have, probably turned their backs. ↵<\/a><\/li>
  3. How do you know: In Ritschel\u2019s edition, these words are attributed to Palaestrio. This is clearly a mistake, for Palaestrio has not yet joined in their conversation. He and his master are listening to what they say. ↵<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"menu_order":17,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-131","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/131\/revisions\/243"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/131\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}