Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.

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Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
Author
Plautus, Titus Maccius.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and T. Child ...,
1694.
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Page 140

Scene the Fourth.

Ibid. l. 17, 18. Without doubt you've an admirable Ser∣vant, &c.] Here begins a very pleasant short Narration of what was done off the Stage; the very Plot and Sub∣ject makes it so, and not the Stile. But the chief De∣sign of it is for a Preparation to make the Seventh, but. especially the Eighth Scene of this Act, more diverting. See more of that Preparation, in the second Remark in the third Scene of the Second Act.

Pag. 106. l. 3, &c. All the while, I did as tho' I was a silly clod-pated Ass, that cou'dn't say Bo to a Goose. Per. You cou'd do no otherwise.] Ego illic me autem sic assimu∣labam quasi stolidum, cum bardum me faeciebam. Per. Imo ita decet. This, Imo ita decet, is an equivocal An∣swer to the foregoing Sentence; as is, You cou'd do no otherwise, the same; it being taken either in a good or bad Sense. This is very pleasant when rightly ap∣prehended.

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