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Vide, ne mihi verba des ob secro; ne dicas me cibos de disse: Non sat habes, quod amoris to vias omnes doceo; quin ut to, tuamque alam postu less? nae unum (Doemones meos testor) obolum à me sumes quam, nisi mu tuò, idque sub foenore: repone mihi (priusquàm ulteriùs progrediare) in hoc concavu ̄ palmae meae, quas jàm de bes pro comeatu, minas binas: Habebis à me sempèr locum & jocum: said au din'? potum & focum suppeditabis ipse, si placet. Dicis mihi nugas, Optima Tuscidilla, &, Memoriam to colam sempiternam; Said ego non video nummos. Promas igitur tandèm quo solvas, quod promittis tàm saepè. Novi satis fraudulentum esse to carnificem, itaque urgeo tàm sa tisfacias; hoc enim praecavere im me movet. Testor meam muliebrem ho nestatem (quam feci sempèr plurimi) non audivisse me quam, quem cum isto possis comparare. Mihi huic per omniam similem maritum Dij. Sic gestio prae laetitiam, ut vix sim apud me. Vos Venus & Juno matu rate hoc matrimonium. Moritura nihil aegre tulit, nisi quod animam non efflaret in sinum viri illius docti & imcomparabilis. Cum illam vtinàm & ego perijs sem simul: plurimas ego virgins ante hac, & non virgins docui mortem ut contemnerent: Vitam see dixit suam vili pendere, To fata modò servent in columem. Quin etiam noluit ut lugeres. AT quid si frauds has no stras senserit? SIc est, ut dixi, meam Lydia, sir vus hic, inops & pecuniae & ingenii: ille altar sapiens & honorabilis: nè negligas. ME miserum quid hoc por tenti est? Virginem tenel lulam perire tàm subitò, etiàm instanti bus nuptiis? Nonne monstri simile est?
Plot summary
Plot — Pedantius
Crobolus and the schoolmaster Pedantius are rivals. for the love of Lydia. Crobolus asks his servant Pogglostus to bilkk money from Pedantius and his friend Dromodotus. After failing with a hard-luck story, Pogglostus robs them at sword-point. Crobolus wins Lydia’s love by entertaining her to dinner. He is slow to pay his landlady for the meal, but assures her he can easily trick the money out of Pedantius. Through the parasite Tyrophagus, he lets Pedantius know that a former pupil, Leonidas, has secured a position at court, and intends to use his influence to get a royal appointment for his old tutor. On the strength of this, Pedantius is persuaded to loan Leonidas money. Tyrophagus is bringing the cash back to Crobolus when he is robbed by Pogglostus, who doesn’t know that he and his master are in league. Pedantius tries to woo Lydia, but has less success, partly because he does it using academic logic and partly because she has already accepted Crobulus. In any event, whoever wins her will need to pay her avaricious master to manumit her. She feigns interest in him after hearing of his supposed successes at court, and he tries to raise the money by offering to sell his books to the audience. The tailor Gilbert pursues him for payment of his bills, but Pedantius only gives him a string of classical authorities and quotations; Gilbert threatens to sue him. Pedantius sends Lydia money and a ring, but the news comes back that she is dead. She has sent him back his ring, and, with her last breath, told him not to grieve for her, and to leave the country. Assured of her love for him, Pedantius complies and goes into exile. With him out of the way, Crobulus is free to marry Lydia, who is not really dead, using the money he has tricked out of the pedant. |