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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SCENE II.

Enter Pleusidippus at a distance, with three of his Friends.
Pleu. to his Friends]

Well, Gentlemen, I've taken ye off your Bus'ness, and still our searching's to no pur∣pose; for I cou'd n't catch this rascally Bawd at the Haven. But I wou'd n't ha' my carelesness ruin my Hopes; and therefore, my Friends, I'm forc'd to de∣tain ye the longer.—So now I'll visit the Temple o' Venus here, where the Fellow design'd to sacrifice, as he told me.

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Sce. digging]

Upo' my honour, I shall take a new Course wi' this damnable Clay, that has almost kill'd me.

Pleu.

I hear some body's Voice just by.

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