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Hecyra; The Mother-In-Law

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1. 5.4.865c

   Nor is there need, in fact; therefore keep it a secret: I don’t wish it to be the case here as it is in the Comedies, where every thing is known to every body. Here, those’ who ought to know, know already; but those who ought not to know, shall neither hear of it nor know it.

2. 5.4.869

   Nay more, I will give you a proof why you may suppose that this may be the more easily concealed.

3. 5.4.870

   Myrrhina has told Phidippus to this effect—that she has given credit to my oath, and that, in consequence, in her eyes you are exculpated.

4. 5.4.871b

   Most excellent; and I trust that this matter will turn out according to our wishes.

5. 5.4.873

   Master, may I not be allowed to know from you what is the good that I have done to-day, or what it is you are talking about?

6. 5.4.874b

   You may not.

7. 5.4.874c

   Still I suspect.

8. 5.4.875

   I restore him, when dead, from the shades below. In what way?

9. 5.4.875b

   You don’t know, Parmeno, how much you have benefited me to-day, and from what troubles you have extricated me.

10. 5.4.877

    Nay, but indeed I do know: and I did not do it without design.

11. 5.4.877b

    I know that well enough (ironically).

12. 5.4.878

    Could Parmeno, from negligence, omit any thing that ought to be done?

13. 5.4.879

    Follow me in, Parmeno.

14. 5.4.879b

    I’ll follow; for my part, I have done more good to-day,

15. 5.4.880

    without knowing it, than ever I did, knowingly, in all my life.

16. 5.4.880b

    Grant us your applause.

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