Miles Gloriosus
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Plautus. The Comedies of Plautus, Volume 1. Riley, H. T., translator. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912.
- ’Tis for you to begin.
- aloud. Prithee, did you see him yourself? Aside. don’t spare your voice, so that he may hear.
- aloud. 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.
- to PALAESTRIO. Do you hear what she says?
- to PYRGOPOLINICES. I hear. How delighted she is because she had access to you.
- aloud. O happy woman that you are!
- How I do seem to be loved!
- You are deserving of it.
- aloud. 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.
- aloud. But, i’ faith, ’twas with difficulty I had an opportunity of approaching and beseeching him.