Act, scene

  1     I,     1|                                  Eucl. (within) Out with you,
  2     I,     1|         poor wretch like me,sir?~Eucl. (savagely) To make sure
  3     I,     1|        out of the house for now?~Eucl. I give my reasons to you,
  4     I,     1|          at this rate, I'm sure.~Eucl. (aside) Hear the old criminal
  5     I,     2|  Re-enter Euclio from the house.~Eucl. (aside) At last I can feel
  6     I,     2| emptiness as it is, and cobwebs.~Eucl. It is surprising Providence
  7     I,     2|          matter how near she is.~Eucl. Keep still and go inside. (
  8     I,     2|          m still,sir, I'm going!~Eucl. Mind you lock the door,
  9     1,     2|             Scene 2~Enter Euclio~Eucl. (without seeing Megadorus)
 10     1,     2|        everything to you always!~Eucl. (taking hand gingerly)
 11     1,     2|          well as you could wish?~Eucl. (aside) There's something
 12     1,     2|      Mega. You say you are well?~Eucl. Heavens, no: I feel low,
 13     1,     2|       enough to enjoy life with.~Eucl. (aside,frightened) Oh,
 14     1,     2|       you're saying to yourself?~Eucl. (startled) Just.. how awful
 15     1,     2|        me, if you need anything.~Eucl. (aside) When he agrees
 16     1,     2|    matter that concerns us both.~Eucl. (aside) Oh, God save us!
 17     1,     2|      Mega. Where are you off to?~Eucl. Just a moment!...I'll be
 18     1,     2|   closer-fisted.~Re-enter Euclio~Eucl. (aside) Thank the lord,
 19     1,     2|      questions I'm going to ask.~Eucl.(cautiously) No-no -- that
 20     1,     2|        of my family connections?~Eucl.(grudgingly) Good. ~Mega.
 21     1,     2|          And my sense of honour?~Eucl. Good.~Mega. And my general
 22     1,     2|          And my general conduct?~Eucl. Not bad, not disreputable.~
 23     1,     2|           Mega. You know my age?~Eucl. Getting on, getting on,
 24     1,     2|  certainly have, and I do still.~Eucl. (aside) He's a got a whiff
 25     1,     2|      marriage. Promise you will.~Eucl. (whining) Now, now, Megadorus!
 26     1,     2|         t think of such a thing.~Eucl. Then why are you asking
 27     1,     2|      pleasanter for one another.~Eucl. Now here's the way it strikes
 28     1,     2|          and promise her to me. ~Eucl. But not one penny of dowry
 29     1,     2|        and she has dowry enough.~Eucl. (forcing a laugh) I mention
 30     1,     2|           I understand. Promise.~Eucl. So be it. (aside, starting
 31     1,     2|         Mega. What's the matter?~Eucl. That noise? what was it --
 32     1,     2|        it again.~Re-enter Euclio~Eucl. (to Staphyla within) By
 33     1,     2|    without the slightest reason.~Eucl. Bless my soul! I'm not
 34     1,     2|        am to have your daughter?~Eucl. On the understanding she
 35     1,     2|         Mega. You consent, then?~Eucl. I consent.~Mega. And may
 36     1,     2|          And may God prosper us!~Eucl. Yes,yes, -- and mind you
 37     1,     2|         penny.~Mega. I remember.~Eucl. But I know the way you
 38     1,     2|       having it today, is there?~Eucl. Dear,dear, no! The very
 39     1,     2|          Anything else I can do?~Eucl. Only that. Go along. Good-bye.~
 40     1,     2|       come, look alive! (exeunt)~Eucl. (looking after them) He'
 41     1,     3|        done. This is too sudden.~Eucl. Silence! Off with you!
 42     1,     8|       and a few forlorn flowers.~Eucl. Now I did want to be hearty
 43     1,     8|       one: it won't hold it all.~Eucl. Oh, my God! my God! I'm
 44   III,     2|                          Scene 2~Eucl. (going into street) Come
 45   III,     2|         you yelling for, stupid?~Eucl. Because I am going to report
 46   III,     2|         this instant.~Cong. Why?~Eucl. Well, you carry a knife.~
 47   III,     2|      Cong. And so a cook should.~Eucl. And how about your threatening
 48   III,     2|      through you, I'm thinking. ~Eucl. There isn't a more abandoned
 49   III,     2|         hands on me, you beggar?~Eucl. What's that? You dare ask
 50   III,     2|       for it, or I'm a numskull.~Eucl. Hm! I don't know anything
 51   III,     2|         the wedding, that's all.~Eucl. And how does it concern
 52   III,     2|      That's what I want to know.~Eucl. Yes, and I want to know
 53   III,     2|  hankering for anything you own.~Eucl. (incredulous) I know. You
 54   III,     2|       said that you didn't like?~Eucl. A pretty question, you
 55   III,     3|      with object under his cloak~Eucl (aside) By heaven, wherever
 56   III,     3|       head till it's all cracks!~Eucl. In with you. You were engaged
 57   III,     3|         cook, not to be thumped.~Eucl. Well, go to law about it.
 58   III,     4|                          Scene 4~Eucl. (looking after them) He'
 59   III,     5|          the time I got through.~Eucl. (aside) God bless my soul,
 60   III,     5|        haven't a right to them!"~Eucl. (aside) Ah, he knows 'em,
 61   III,     5|       eternally after something.~Eucl. (aside) I'd hail him, only
 62   III,     6|                          Scene 6~Eucl. Gratified, highly gratified
 63   III,     6|         it.~Mega. Eh? you heard?~Eucl. Every word of it.~Mega. (
 64   III,     6|         your daughter's wedding.~Eucl. (whining) Folks with the
 65   III,     6|        you in what you have now.~Eucl. (turning away with a start) "
 66   III,     6|       secret session over there?~Eucl. (taken aback) I was --
 67   III,     6|         deserve.~Mega. What for?~Eucl. What for, eh? When you'
 68   III,     6|          I sent you a lamb, too.~Eucl. Yes, and a more shearable
 69   III,     6|       how the lamb is shearable.~Eucl. Because it's mere skin
 70   III,     6|        myself to be slaughtered.~Eucl. (dryly) Then you'd best
 71   III,     6|       carouse to-day, you and I.~Eucl. (frightened) None for me,
 72   III,     6|    brought over from my cellars.~Eucl. No,no! I don't care for
 73   III,     6|        drink nothing but water."~Eucl. (aside) I see his game!
 74   III,     6|     sacrifice. (exit into house)~Eucl. (paternally to object under
 75    IV,     2|         without seeing Strobilus~Eucl. (plaintively) Only be sure
 76    IV,     3|      Re-enter Euclio from house.~Eucl. (excitedly) It means something --
 77    IV,     4|       Euclio dragging Strobilus.~Eucl. Come! out,you worm! crawling
 78    IV,     4|        you mean by battering me?~Eucl. (still pummelling him)
 79    IV,     4|       What did I steal from you?~Eucl. (threatingly) You kindly
 80    IV,     4|          Strob. Back? What back?~Eucl. A nice question!~Strob.
 81    IV,     4|        thing from you, honestly.~Eucl. Well, what you took dishonestly,
 82    IV,     4|         Strob. Come, come, what?~Eucl. You shan't get away with
 83    IV,     4|      Strob. What is it you want?~Eucl. Down with it!~Strob. Down
 84    IV,     4|       yourself already, old boy.~Eucl. Down with it, I tell you!
 85    IV,     4|          thing, and that's flat.~Eucl. Show me your hands.~Strob. (
 86    IV,     4|     there they are: have a look.~Eucl. (dryly) I see. Come now,
 87    IV,     4|          you doing me an injury?~Eucl. I am, a hideous injury --
 88    IV,     4|    confess.~Strob. Confess what?~Eucl. What did you carry off
 89    IV,     4|    Likewise if I didn't want to.~Eucl. Come on, shake out your
 90    IV,     4|      doing so) Anything you say.~Eucl. Um! probably under your
 91    IV,     4|        Feel anywhere you please.~Eucl. Ugh! You rascal! How obliging
 92    IV,     4|          obeying) There you are.~Eucl. Now the left one.~Strob. (
 93    IV,     4|          here's the both of 'em.~Eucl. Enough of this searching.
 94    IV,     4|       give it here.~Strob. What?~Eucl. Oh-h! Bosh! You must have
 95    IV,     4|     Strob. I have it? have what?~Eucl. I won't say: you're too
 96    IV,     4|   solitary thing of yours on me.~Eucl. (excitedly) Wait, wait? (
 97    IV,     4|         be everlastingly damned!~Eucl. (aside, dryly) Nice way
 98    IV,     4|          retreating) I am, I am!~Eucl. And kindly see I don't
 99    IV,     6|         Re-enter Euclio with pot~Eucl. I used to fancy Faith,
100    IV,     9|     Scene 9~Enter Euclio frantic~Eucl. (running, wildly back and
101    IV,    10|                         Scene 10~Eucl. (hearing sound of voice
102    IV,    10|         I'm the poor wretch,sir.~Eucl. No,no, I'm the poor wretch,
103    IV,    10|       Keep your courage up, sir.~Eucl. For heaven's sake how can
104    IV,    10|           and I confess it, sir.~Eucl. Hey? What's that?~Lyc.
105    IV,    10|          s that?~Lyc. The truth.~Eucl. How have I ever harmed
106    IV,    10|        of me,sir, and led me on.~Eucl. How is this?~Lyc. I admit
107    IV,    10|          patient and forgive me.~Eucl. How did you dare do it,
108    IV,    10|      happened, I'm sure of that.~Eucl. Yes, and I think it must
109    IV,    10|        Lyc. Don't say that, sir.~Eucl. Then why did you lay hands
110    IV,    10|          drink...and...love,sir.~Eucl. The colossal impudence
111    IV,    10|        you to pardon my madness.~Eucl. I have no patience with
112    IV,    10|            I ask nothing better.~Eucl. (more angry) Hold to it?
113    IV,    10|      yourself,sir, I assure you.~Eucl. I'll march you off to court
114    IV,    10|         Lyc. I? Bring what back?~Eucl. What you stole from me.~
115    IV,    10|         yours? Where from? What?~Eucl. (ironically) God bless
116    IV,    10|         what you're looking for.~Eucl. The pot of gold, I tell
117    IV,    10|          that or did it, either.~Eucl. You deny it?~Lyc. Deny
118    IV,    10|       gold, or what that pot is.~Eucl. The one you took from the
119    IV,    10|       sir, if you're at leisure.~Eucl. Give me your word of honour:
120    IV,    10|          his head) On my honour.~Eucl. And you don't know the
121    IV,    10|      that, either, on my honour.~Eucl. And if you learn who took
122    IV,    10|          inform me?~Lyc. I will.~Eucl. And you won't go shares
123    IV,    10|       shield the thief?~Lyc. No.~Eucl. What if you deceive me?~
124    IV,    10|      with as great God sees fit.~Eucl. That will suffice. All
125    IV,    10| Lyconides: Eunomia is my mother.~Eucl. I know who you are. Now
126    IV,    10|        Lyc. You have a daughter.~Eucl. Yes, yes, at home there!~
127    IV,    10|          my uncle, I understand.~Eucl. Precisely, precisely.~Lyc.
128    IV,    10|        he breaks the engagement.~Eucl. (furious) Breaks the engagement,
129    IV,    10|          grant it may" Say that.~Eucl. (doubtfully) God grant
130    IV,    10|       wronged her, I confess it.~Eucl. Oh, oh,my God! What villainy
131    IV,    10|        isn't just as I tell you.~Eucl. Oh, my life is wrecked,