What’s this? Whence comes it?PALAESTRIO From a charming and a handsome lady, one who loves you, and dotes upon your extreme beauty. Her maid just now gave me the ring that I might then give it to you.PYRGOPOLINICES What? Is she free born or a freed woman, made free from a slave by the Praetor’s rodBy the Praetor’s rod: Festucais the same with vindicta, the rod, or wand, which the Praetor used to lay on the head of the slave when he was made free.?PALAESTRIO Pshaw! Should I presume to be the bearer of a message to you from a person once a slave, who cannot sufficiently answer the demands of the free women who are longing for you?PYRGOPOLINICES Is she wife, or is she widow?PALAESTRIO She is both wife and widow.PYRGOPOLINICES In what way is it possible for the same woman to be a wife and a widow?PALAESTRIO Because she is a young woman married to an old man. PYRGOPOLINICES That’s good. PALAESTRIO She is of genteel and charming person.