FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88  
89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   >>   >|  
meanness, when at home; So eager after food, that they devour From yesterday's stale broth the coarse black bread:-- All this to know is safety to young men. SCENE V. _PYTHIAS, PARMENO._ PYTH. (_behind_). 'Faith, Sirrah, I'll be handsomely revenged For all you've done and said. You shall not boast Your tricks on us without due punishment. (_Aloud, coming forward._) Oh Heav'ns! oh dreadful deed! oh hapless youth! Oh wicked Parmeno, that brought him here! PAR. What now? PYTH. It mov'd me so. I could not bear To see it: therefore I flew out o' doors. What an example will they make of him! PAR. Oh Jupiter! What tumult can this be? Am I undone, or no?--I'll e'en inquire. Pythias! (_going up._) What now? what is't you rave about? Who's to be made this terrible example? PYTH. Who? most audacious monster! while you meant To play your tricks on us, you have destroyed The youth whom you brought hither for the Eunuch. PAR. How so? and what has happen'd? Prithee tell me! PYTH. Tell you? D'ye know the virgin, that was sent To-day to Thais, is a citizen? Her brother too a man of the first rank? PAR. I did not know it. PYTH. Aye, but so it seems. The poor young spark abus'd the girl; a thing No sooner known, than he, the furious brother---- PAR. Did what? PYTH. First bound him hand and foot---- PAR. How! bound him! PYTH. And now, though Thais begged him not to do it---- PAR. How! what! PYTH. Moreover threatens, he will serve him After the manner of adulterers; A thing I ne'er saw done, and ne'er desire. PAR. How durst he offer at an act so monstrous? PYTH. And why so monstrous? PAR. Is it not most monstrous? Who ever saw a young man seiz'd and bound For rapes and lewdness in a house of harlots? PYTH. I don't know. PAR. Aye; but you must all know this. I tell you, and foretell you, that young spark Is my old master's son. PYTH. Indeed, is he? PAR. And let not Thais suffer any one To do him violence!--But why don't I Rush in myself? PYTH. Ah! take care, Parmeno, What you're about; lest you do him no good, And hurt yourself: for they imagine you, Whatever has been done, the cause of all. PAR. What shall I do then, wretch? what undertake? --Oh! yonder's my old master, just return'd To town. Shall I tell him, or no?--I' faith I'll tell him, though I am well convinc'd it will Bring me into a scrape; a heavy one: And yet It must be done to help poor Chaerea.
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88  
89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

monstrous

 

brought

 

Parmeno

 
brother
 

tricks

 

master

 

convinc

 
Moreover
 

threatens

 

begged


scrape

 

Chaerea

 
furious
 

sooner

 

harlots

 
wretch
 

lewdness

 

Indeed

 

foretell

 

imagine


Whatever
 

violence

 
desire
 

return

 

adulterers

 

undertake

 

suffer

 

yonder

 
manner
 

Sirrah


handsomely
 

revenged

 

punishment

 

hapless

 
wicked
 

dreadful

 

coming

 

forward

 
devour
 

yesterday


meanness

 

PYTHIAS

 

PARMENO

 

safety

 
coarse
 

Eunuch

 

happen

 

destroyed

 
Prithee
 

citizen