{"id":142,"date":"2020-08-07T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/milesgloriosus\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=142"},"modified":"2021-01-18T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:23:28","slug":"act-four-scene-eight","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/chapter\/act-four-scene-eight\/","title":{"raw":"Act Four, Scene Eight","rendered":"Act Four, Scene Eight"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"text\">\r\n\r\n<em>Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN'S house.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\n<em>to PHILOCOMASIUM.<\/em> Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nWhat can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nSee, there's the man that has come from your mother and sister.<em> (pointing to PLEUSICLES.)<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nI see him.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nPalaestrio, do you hear?\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nWhat is your pleasure?\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nAren't you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\nHealth to you, Philocomasium.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nAnd health to you.\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\nYour mother and sister bade me give their love to you.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nHeaven prosper them.\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\nThey beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother's eyes had been well, she would have come[footnote]She would have come: Thornton justly observes that this excuse for the pretended mother not making her appearance is fair enough, but there is no reason alleged why the sister should not come, except that we may suppose that she stays to nurse and comfort her sick parent.[\/footnote] together with me.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nI'll go; although I do it with regret-duty compels me.\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\nYou act wisely.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nIf she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nI am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind.\u00a0Pretends to cry.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nDon't weep.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nI can't help it when I look upon you.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nBe of good courage.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nI know what pain it is to me.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nI really don't wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant--as I look at him, weep because we are parting pretends to cry, so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nPrithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nBy all means\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\n<em>embracing him.<\/em> O my eyes! O my life!\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nDo hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall.\u00a0He takes hold of her, and she pretends to faint.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nWhat means this?\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nBecause, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nRun in and fetch some water.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nI want no water, but I had rather you would keep at a distance. Prithee, don't you interfere till she comes to.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\n<em>observing PLEUSICLES, who is holding PHILOCOMASIUM in his arm.\u00a0<\/em>They have their heads too closely in contact between them; I don't like it; he is soldering his lips[footnote]He is soldering his lips: \u201cFerruminat\u201d is a strong expression here; it literally means to weld iron with iron. hammering it in a red-hot state[\/footnote] to hers. What the plague are you about?\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\nI was trying whether she was breathing or not.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nYou ought to have applied your ear then.\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\nIf you had rather, I'll let her go.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nNo, I don't care; do you support her.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nTo my misery, I'm quite distracted.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nGo and bring here from in-doors all the things that I have given her.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nAnd even now, household God, do I salute thee before I depart; my fellow-servants, both male and female, all farewell, and happy may you live; prithee, though absent, among yourselves bestow your blessings upon me as well.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nCome, Palaestrio, be of good courage.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nAlas! alas! I cannot but weep since from you I must depart.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nBear it with patience.\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\n<em>feigning to recover.<\/em> Ha! how's this? What means it? Hail, O light!\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\nAre you recovered now?\r\n\r\n<strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong>\r\nPrithee, what person am I embracing? I'm undone. Am I myself?\r\n\r\n<strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong>\r\n<em>in a low voice.<\/em> Fear not, my delight.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nWhat means all this?\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nJust now she swooned away here. * * * * * * I fear and dread that this, at last, may take place[footnote]May take place: Palaestrio cannot help exclaiming against the indiscreet conduct of the lovers. The Captain overhears him, and asks him what is the matter. He adroitly turns it off, by saying, \u201cthat if thus openly \u2014- the goods and furniture are carried through the city, he very much fears that his, master will be censured for his extreme prodigality.\u201d[\/footnote] too openly.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nWhat is that you say?\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nI fear that someone may turn it to your discredit, while all these things are being carried after us through the city.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nI have given away my own property, and not theirs. I care but little for other people. Be off then, go with the blessing of the Gods.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\n'Tis for your sake I say it.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nI believe you.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nAnd now farewell!\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nAnd heartily farewell to you!\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\n<em>to PLEUSICLES and PHILOCOMASIUM as they leave.\u00a0<\/em>Go you quickly on; I'll overtake you directly; I wish to speak a few words with my master.\u00a0<em>To PYRGOPOLINICES.\u00a0<\/em>Although you have ever deemed others more faithful to yourself than me, still do I owe you many thanks for all things; and if such were your feelings, I would rather be a slave to you by far than be the freedman of another.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nBe of good courage.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nAh me! When it comes in my mind, how my manners must be changed, how womanish manners must be learnt, and the military ones forgotten!\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nTake care and be honest.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nI can be so no longer; I have lost all inclination[footnote]Lost all inclination: A pun is thought to be intended here on the word \u201clubidnem,\u201d but of so wretched a nature that it is not worth any further allusion to it.[\/footnote].\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nGo, follow them; don't linger.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nFare you right well.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nAnd heartily fare you well.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nPrithee, do remember me; if perchance I should happen to be made free, I'll send the news to you; don't you forsake me[footnote]Don\u2019t you forsake me: He hypocritically entreats his master not to desert him in need, should he be made free, and be thereby thrown entirely upon his own resources.[\/footnote].\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nThat is not my habit.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nConsider every now and then how faithful I have been to you. If you do that, then at last you'll know who is honest towards you and who dishonest.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nI know it; I have often found that true, as well before as to-day in especial.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nDo you know it? Aye, and this day I'll make you hereafter say still more how true it is.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nI can hardly refrain from bidding you to stay.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nTake you care how[footnote]Take you care how: There is considerable drollery in his anxiety lest his master should suddenly change his mind and refuse to let him go. His situation would, indeed, under such circumstances have proved an unfortunate one.[\/footnote] you do that. They may say that you are a liar and not truthful, that you have no honor; they may say that no one of your slaves is trustworthy except my-self. If, indeed, I thought you could do it with honor, I should advise you. But it cannot be; take care how you do so.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nBe off; I'll be content then, whatever happens.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nThen, fare you well.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\n'Twere better you should go with a good heart.\r\n\r\n<strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong>\r\nStill, once more, farewell.\u00a0Exit.\r\n\r\n<strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong>\r\nBefore this affair, I had always thought that he was a most rascally servant; still, I find that he is faithful to me. When I consider with myself, I have done unwisely in parting with him. I'll go hence at once now to my love here: the door, too, I perceive, makes a noise there.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"text\">\n<p><em>Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN&#8217;S house.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>to PHILOCOMASIUM.<\/em> Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nSee, there&#8217;s the man that has come from your mother and sister.<em> (pointing to PLEUSICLES.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nI see him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nPalaestrio, do you hear?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is your pleasure?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nAren&#8217;t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\nHealth to you, Philocomasium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd health to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\nYour mother and sister bade me give their love to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nHeaven prosper them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\nThey beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother&#8217;s eyes had been well, she would have come<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"She would have come: Thornton justly observes that this excuse for the pretended mother not making her appearance is fair enough, but there is no reason alleged why the sister should not come, except that we may suppose that she stays to nurse and comfort her sick parent.\" id=\"return-footnote-142-1\" href=\"#footnote-142-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a> together with me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll go; although I do it with regret-duty compels me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\nYou act wisely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nIf she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nI am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind.\u00a0Pretends to cry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t weep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t help it when I look upon you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nBe of good courage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nI know what pain it is to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nI really don&#8217;t wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant&#8211;as I look at him, weep because we are parting pretends to cry, so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nPrithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nBy all means<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>embracing him.<\/em> O my eyes! O my life!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nDo hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall.\u00a0He takes hold of her, and she pretends to faint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat means this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nBecause, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nRun in and fetch some water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nI want no water, but I had rather you would keep at a distance. Prithee, don&#8217;t you interfere till she comes to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>observing PLEUSICLES, who is holding PHILOCOMASIUM in his arm.\u00a0<\/em>They have their heads too closely in contact between them; I don&#8217;t like it; he is soldering his lips<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"He is soldering his lips: \u201cFerruminat\u201d is a strong expression here; it literally means to weld iron with iron. hammering it in a red-hot state\" id=\"return-footnote-142-2\" href=\"#footnote-142-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a> to hers. What the plague are you about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\nI was trying whether she was breathing or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nYou ought to have applied your ear then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you had rather, I&#8217;ll let her go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, I don&#8217;t care; do you support her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nTo my misery, I&#8217;m quite distracted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nGo and bring here from in-doors all the things that I have given her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd even now, household God, do I salute thee before I depart; my fellow-servants, both male and female, all farewell, and happy may you live; prithee, though absent, among yourselves bestow your blessings upon me as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nCome, Palaestrio, be of good courage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nAlas! alas! I cannot but weep since from you I must depart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nBear it with patience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>feigning to recover.<\/em> Ha! how&#8217;s this? What means it? Hail, O light!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\nAre you recovered now?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHILOCOMASIUM<\/strong><br \/>\nPrithee, what person am I embracing? I&#8217;m undone. Am I myself?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEUSICLES<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>in a low voice.<\/em> Fear not, my delight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat means all this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nJust now she swooned away here. * * * * * * I fear and dread that this, at last, may take place<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"May take place: Palaestrio cannot help exclaiming against the indiscreet conduct of the lovers. The Captain overhears him, and asks him what is the matter. He adroitly turns it off, by saying, \u201cthat if thus openly \u2014- the goods and furniture are carried through the city, he very much fears that his, master will be censured for his extreme prodigality.\u201d\" id=\"return-footnote-142-3\" href=\"#footnote-142-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a> too openly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is that you say?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nI fear that someone may turn it to your discredit, while all these things are being carried after us through the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nI have given away my own property, and not theirs. I care but little for other people. Be off then, go with the blessing of the Gods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8216;Tis for your sake I say it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nI believe you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd now farewell!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd heartily farewell to you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>to PLEUSICLES and PHILOCOMASIUM as they leave.\u00a0<\/em>Go you quickly on; I&#8217;ll overtake you directly; I wish to speak a few words with my master.\u00a0<em>To PYRGOPOLINICES.\u00a0<\/em>Although you have ever deemed others more faithful to yourself than me, still do I owe you many thanks for all things; and if such were your feelings, I would rather be a slave to you by far than be the freedman of another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nBe of good courage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nAh me! When it comes in my mind, how my manners must be changed, how womanish manners must be learnt, and the military ones forgotten!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nTake care and be honest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nI can be so no longer; I have lost all inclination<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Lost all inclination: A pun is thought to be intended here on the word \u201clubidnem,\u201d but of so wretched a nature that it is not worth any further allusion to it.\" id=\"return-footnote-142-4\" href=\"#footnote-142-4\" aria-label=\"Footnote 4\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[4]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nGo, follow them; don&#8217;t linger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nFare you right well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd heartily fare you well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nPrithee, do remember me; if perchance I should happen to be made free, I&#8217;ll send the news to you; don&#8217;t you forsake me<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Don\u2019t you forsake me: He hypocritically entreats his master not to desert him in need, should he be made free, and be thereby thrown entirely upon his own resources.\" id=\"return-footnote-142-5\" href=\"#footnote-142-5\" aria-label=\"Footnote 5\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[5]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nThat is not my habit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nConsider every now and then how faithful I have been to you. If you do that, then at last you&#8217;ll know who is honest towards you and who dishonest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nI know it; I have often found that true, as well before as to-day in especial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you know it? Aye, and this day I&#8217;ll make you hereafter say still more how true it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nI can hardly refrain from bidding you to stay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nTake you care how<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Take you care how: There is considerable drollery in his anxiety lest his master should suddenly change his mind and refuse to let him go. His situation would, indeed, under such circumstances have proved an unfortunate one.\" id=\"return-footnote-142-6\" href=\"#footnote-142-6\" aria-label=\"Footnote 6\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[6]<\/sup><\/a> you do that. They may say that you are a liar and not truthful, that you have no honor; they may say that no one of your slaves is trustworthy except my-self. If, indeed, I thought you could do it with honor, I should advise you. But it cannot be; take care how you do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nBe off; I&#8217;ll be content then, whatever happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nThen, fare you well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8216;Twere better you should go with a good heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PALAESTRIO<\/strong><br \/>\nStill, once more, farewell.\u00a0Exit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PYRGOPOLINICES<\/strong><br \/>\nBefore this affair, I had always thought that he was a most rascally servant; still, I find that he is faithful to me. When I consider with myself, I have done unwisely in parting with him. I&#8217;ll go hence at once now to my love here: the door, too, I perceive, makes a noise there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-142-1\">She would have come: Thornton justly observes that this excuse for the pretended mother not making her appearance is fair enough, but there is no reason alleged why the sister should not come, except that we may suppose that she stays to nurse and comfort her sick parent. <a href=\"#return-footnote-142-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-142-2\">He is soldering his lips: \u201cFerruminat\u201d is a strong expression here; it literally means to weld iron with iron. hammering it in a red-hot state <a href=\"#return-footnote-142-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-142-3\">May take place: Palaestrio cannot help exclaiming against the indiscreet conduct of the lovers. The Captain overhears him, and asks him what is the matter. He adroitly turns it off, by saying, \u201cthat if thus openly \u2014- the goods and furniture are carried through the city, he very much fears that his, master will be censured for his extreme prodigality.\u201d <a href=\"#return-footnote-142-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-142-4\">Lost all inclination: A pun is thought to be intended here on the word \u201clubidnem,\u201d but of so wretched a nature that it is not worth any further allusion to it. <a href=\"#return-footnote-142-4\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 4\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-142-5\">Don\u2019t you forsake me: He hypocritically entreats his master not to desert him in need, should he be made free, and be thereby thrown entirely upon his own resources. <a href=\"#return-footnote-142-5\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 5\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-142-6\">Take you care how: There is considerable drollery in his anxiety lest his master should suddenly change his mind and refuse to let him go. His situation would, indeed, under such circumstances have proved an unfortunate one. <a href=\"#return-footnote-142-6\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 6\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"menu_order":19,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-142","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/142","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":6,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/142\/revisions\/206"}],"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\/142\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/milesgloriosus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}