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T. Maccius Plautus, Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 4 0 Browse Search
T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 2 0 Browse Search
T. Maccius Plautus, Bacchides, or The Twin Sisters (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) 2 0 Browse Search
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T. Maccius Plautus, Aulularia, or The Concealed Treasure (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), act 4, scene 4 (search)
trifling now. STROBILUS What am I to put down? Why don't you mention it, whatever it is, by its own name? By my faith, I really have neither taken nor touched anything. EUCLIO Show me your hands, here. STROBILUS Well, I do show them; see, here they are. Holdinq out his hands. EUCLIO I see them. Come, show me the thirdShow me the third: This passage has been considered as extravagant; but it really does not appear inconsistent with the ridiculous conduct of the wretched Euclio throughout. Thornton supposes that the following passage in the old play of Albumazar, Act III., Sc. 8 (where Trinculo questions Ronca about the purse, which the latter has stolen from him), is an imitation of this passage: Trin.Show me your hand. Ron.Here 'tis. Trin.But where's the other? Ron.Why, here. Trin.But I mean, where's your other hand? Ron.Think you me the giant with an hundred hands? Trin.Give me your right. Ron.My right? Trin.Your left? Ron.My left? Trin.Now both. Ron.There's both, my dear Antonio,