The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Titus Maccius Plautus
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PHIL. O yes, it was my intention so to do. Step aside this way (_to_ TYNDARUS). SLAVE (_to the other_ CAPTIVES). Stand apart from them. TYND. (_to the_ SLAVE). "We are Both greatly obliged to you, by reason of your doing so, since you allow us to obtain what we are desirous of. PHIL. Step here then, at a distance now, if you think fit, that no listeners may be enabled to overhear our discourse, and that this plan of ours mayn't be divulged before them for a stratagem is no stratagem, if you don't plan it with art but _it is_ a very great misfortune if it becomes disclosed. For if you are my master, and I represent myself as your servant, still there's need of foresight, _and_ need of caution, that this may be carried out discreetly and without overlookers, with carefulness and with cautious prudence and diligence. So great is the matter that has been commenced upon; this must not be carried out in any drowsy fashion. TYND. Just as you shall desire me to be, I will be. PHIL. I trust _so_. TYND. For now you see that for your precious life I'm setting at stake my own, _as_ dear _to me_. PHIL. I know it. TYND. But remember to know it when you shall be enjoying that which you wish for; for mostly, the greatest part of mankind follow this fashion; what they wish for, until they obtain it, they are rightminded; but when they have now got it in their power, from |
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