STALINO: (starting.)Hah!
Lysidamvs:Hém.
PARDALISCA:A sword—
Pardalisca:Gladium—
STALINO:What about that sword?
Lysidamvs:Quid eúm gladium?
PARDALISCA:She has got one.
Pardalisca:Habet.
STALINO:Ah! wretch that I am! Why has she got it?
Lysidamvs:Eí misero mihi, cúr eum habet?
PARDALISCA:She is pursuing them all at home all over the house, and she won’t allow any person to approach her; and so, all, hiding in chests and under beds,are mute with fear.
Pardalisca:Inséctatur ómnis domí per aedis,nec quémquam prope ád se sínit adire:ita ómnes sub árcis, sub léctis laténtesmetú mussitánt.
STALINO:I’m murdered and ruined outright! What malady is this that has so suddenly befallen her?
Lysidamvs:Occidi átque intérii.quid ílli obiéctumst malí tam repénte?
PARDALISCA:She is mad.
Pardalisca:Insánit.
STALINO:I do think that I am the most unfortunate of men!
Lysidamvs:Sceléstissimum me esse crédo.
PARDALISCA:Aye, and if you were to know the speeches she uttered to-day.
Pardalisca:Immó si sciás dicta quaé dixit hódie—
STALINO:I long to know about what she said.
Lysidamvs:Istúc expetó scire. quíd dixit?
PARDALISCA:Listen.
Pardalisca:Aúdi.
By all the Gods and Goddesses she swore that she would murder the person with whom she should bed.
per ómnis deós et deás deierávit,occísurum eum hác nocte quícum cubáret.
STALINO:Will she murder me?
Lysidamvs:Men óccidet?
PARDALISCA:Does that bear reference to yourself in any way?
Pardalisca:Án quippiam ád te attinét?
STALINO:Pshaw!
Lysidamvs:Vah.
PARDALISCA:What business have you with her?
Pardalisca:Quid cúm ea negóti tibíst?
STALINO:I made a mistake; him, the bailiff, I meant to say.
Lysidamvs:Peccavi:illúc diceré, vilicúm, volébam.
PARDALISCA:It’s on purpose that you are turning aside from the high road into bye-paths.
Pardalisca:Sciéns de via ín semitám degrédere.
STALINO:Does she threaten anything against myself?
Lysidamvs:Numquíd mihi minátur?
PARDALISCA:She is hostile to you individually more than any person.
Pardalisca:Tibi ínfesta solistplús quam cuiquam.
STALINO:For what reason?
Lysidamvs:Quam ob rem?
PARDALISCA:Because you have given her as a wife to Olympio; she says that she’ll neither suffer your life, nor her own, nor that of her husband,to be prolonged until the morrow. I have been sent hither to tell you this, that you might beware of her.
Pardalisca:Quia se dés uxorem Olýmpioni,neque se tuam nec se suam neque viri vitam sinere incrástinum protólli: id huc míssa sum tibi ut dícerem,áb ea uti caveás tibi.
STALINO: (aside.)By my troth, to my misery I’m quite undone!
Lysidamvs:Perii hércle egó miser.Pardalisca:Dígnus ⟨es⟩.
There neither is nor ever was any old man in love so wretched as I.PARDALISCA: (aside, to the AUDIENCE.)Don’t I play him off cleverly? For everything that I’ve been telling him as taking place, I’ve been telling him falsely. My mistress and she who lives next door have concocted this scheme. I’ve been sent to fool him.
Lysidamvs:Neque ést neque fuít me senéx quisquam amátoradaéque misér.Pardalisca:Ludo ego húnc facete;nam quaé facta díxi omnia huíc falsa díxi:era átque haec dolum éx proxumo húnc protulérunt,ego húnc missa súm ludere.
STALINO:Hark you, Pardalisca!
Lysidamvs:Heús Pardalísca.
PARDALISCA:What is it?
Pardalisca:Quid ést?
STALINO:There is —
Lysidamvs:Est—
PARDALISCA:What?
Pardalisca:Quid?
STALINO:There is something that I want to enquire of you about.
Lysidamvs:Ést quod volo éxquirere éx te.
PARDALISCA:You are causing me delay.
Pardalisca:Moram óffers mihi.
STALINO:Why, you are causing me sorrow. But has Casina got that sword even still?
Lysidamvs:Át tu mihi óffers maerórem.sed étiamne habét nunc Cásina gladium?
PARDALISCA:She has; but two of them.
Pardalisca:Habét, sed duós.
STALINO:Why two?
Lysidamvs:Quid, duós?
PARDALISCA:She says that this very day she’ll murder you with the one, the bailiff with the other.
Pardalisca:Alteró teoccísurum aít, alteró vilicum hódie.
STALINO:I am now the most utterly murdered of all people that do exist.
Lysidamvs:Occísissimús sum omniúm qui vivont.
I’ll put on me a coat of mail; I think that’s the best. What did my wife do? Didn’t she go and take them away from her?
lorícam induám mi optumum ésse opinor.quid úxor mea? nón adiit átque ademit?
PARDALISCA:No person dares go near her.
Pardalisca:Nemo aúdet prope áccedere.
STALINO:She should have prevailed on her.
Lysidamvs:Éxoret.
PARDALISCA:She is entreating her. She declares that assuredly she will lay them down on no other terms, unless she understands that she shall not be given to the bailiff.
Pardalisca:Órat:negát ponere álio modo úllo profécto,nisí se sciát vilicó non datum íri.
STALINO:But whether she likes it or no, because she refuses, she shall marry him this day. For why shouldn’t I carry this out that I’ve begun, for her to marry me?—that, indeed, I didn’t intend to say—but, our bailiff?
Lysidamvs:Atque íngratiís, quia non vólt, nubet hódie.nam quór non ego íd perpetrém quod coépi,ut núbat mihi? íllud quidém volebam,nostró vilico.
PARDALISCA:You’re making your mistakes pretty often.
Pardalisca:Saepícule peccas.
STALINO:It’s alarm that impedes my words. But, prithee,do tell my wife, that I entreat her to prevail upon her to put down the sword, and allow me to return in-doors.
Lysidamvs:Timór praepedít verba. vérum, obsecró te,dic méd uxorem órare ut éxoret íllam,gládium ut ponat ét redire me íntro ut liceat.
PARDALISCA:I’ll tell her.
Pardalisca:Núntiabo.
STALINO:And do you entreat her.
Lysidamvs:Ét tu orato.
PARDALISCA:And I’ll entreat her.
Pardalisca:Et ego órabo.
STALINO:And in soft language, in your usual way. But do you hear me? If you manage this, I’ll give you a pair of shoes and a gold ring for your finger, and plenty of nice things.
Lysidamvs:At blande órato, ut solés. sed audin?si efféxis hoc, soleás tibi dabo, et ánulum in digitum aúreum et bona plúruma.
PARDALISCA:I’ll do my best.
Pardalisca:Operám dabo.
STALINO:Take care and prevail.
Lysidamvs:Face ut ímpetres.
PARDALISCA:Now then I’ll be off; unless you detain me for anything.
Pardalisca:Eo núnciam, nisi quíppiamremoráre me.
STALINO:Be off, and take care.PARDALISCA: (aside.)Look, his assistant is returning, at last, with the provisions; he’s bringing a train after him. (She goes into the house.)(Enter OLYMPIO, a COOK, and his ASSISTANTS, with provisions.)OLYMPIO: (to the COOK.)
Lysidamvs:Abi et cúra.redit éccum tandem opsónatu meus ádiutor, pompám ducit.
See, you thief, that you lead on your briars beneath their banners.A COOK:But how are they briars?
Olympio:Vide, fúr, sentis súb signis ducás.Citrio:Qui vero hi súnt sentis?
OLYMPIO:Because that which they have touched, they instantly seize hold of; if you go to snatch it from them, they instantly rend it; so, wherever they come, wherever they are, with a twofold loss do they mulct their masters.
Olympio:Quia quód tetigere, ilíco rapiunt, si eás ereptum, ilíco scindunt:ita quóquo adveniunt, úbiubi sunt, duplicí damno dominós multant.
A COOK:Heyday, indeed!OLYMPIO:Well, well! This way I’m delaying to go meet my master with a magnificent, patrician, and patronizing air. (He struts along.)
Citrio:Heia.Olympio:Áttat. cesso mágnufice patriciéque amicirier átque ita ero meo ire ádvorsum?
STALINO:My good man, save you.
Lysidamvs:Bone vír, salve.
OLYMPIO:I admit that so I am.
Olympio:Fateór.
STALINO:How goes it?
Lysidamvs:Quid fit?
OLYMPIO:You are in love, but I’m hungering and thirsting.
Olympio:Tu amás: ego ésurio et sitio.
STALINO:You have come capitally provided.
Lysidamvs:Lepide éxcuratus incéssisti.
OLYMPIO:Pooh! pooh!(Goes towards the door.)
Olympio:Aha, hodie …
STALINO:But stop you, although you do hold me in contempt—
Lysidamvs:Mane véro, quamquam fástidis.
OLYMPIO:O dear, O dear! your converse has a bad smell to me. (Moving away.)
Olympio:Fu fú, fetet tuos míhi sermo.
STALINO:What’s the matter?
Lysidamvs:Quae rés?
OLYMPIO: (pointing to the baskets of provisions.)That’s the matter.STALINO:Will you not stop there?OLYMPIO:Why, really, you are causing me ennui.
Olympio:Haec res. etiámne adstas? enim véro πράγματά μοι παρέχεις.
STALINO:I shall be giving you a grand coup, I fancy, if you don’t stand still forthwith. (Catches hold of him.)
Lysidamvs:Dabo tibi μέγα κακόν,ut ego opinor, nisi resistis.
OLYMPIO:O mon Dieu! Can’t you get away from me, unless you would like me to be sick just now?
Olympio:ὦ Ζεῦ,potin a me abeas, nisi me vis vomere hodie?
STALINO:Do stop a bit.
Lysidamvs:Máne.
OLYMPIO:How’s this? (Staring at him.) What person’s this?
Olympio:Quid est? quis hic ést homo?
STALINO:I’m your master.
Lysidamvs:Erus súm.
OLYMPIO:What master?
Olympio:Quis erus?
STALINO:He whose slave you are.
Lysidamvs:Cuius tú servo'sservus es.
OLYMPIO:I, a slave?
Olympio:Servós ego?
STALINO:Aye, and mine.
Lysidamvs:Atqué meus.
OLYMPIO:Am I not a free man? Remember! remember!
Olympio:Non súm ego líber?meménto, meménto.
STALINO:Stop and stay you there!(Catches hold of him.)
Lysidamvs:Mane átque asta.
OLYMPIO:Let me alone.
Olympio:Omítte.
STALINO:I am your slave.
Lysidamvs:Servós sum tuós.
OLYMPIO:That’s very good.
Olympio:Optumést.
STALINO:My dear little Olympio, my father, my patron, I do beg of you—
Lysidamvs:Opsecró te,Olýmpisce mí, mi patér, mi patróne.
OLYMPIO:Well, you certainly are in your senses.
Olympio:Em,sapis sáne.
STALINO:Of course I am your slave.
Lysidamvs:Tuos sum équidem.
OLYMPIO:What need have I of so worthless a slave?
Olympio:Quid mi ópust servo tam néquam?
STALINO:Well now, how soon are you going to provide me some amusement?
Lysidamvs:Quid núnc? quam mox recreás me?
OLYMPIO:If the dinner were but drest.
Olympio:Cená modo si sit cócta.
STALINO:Then let them be off this instant in-doors.(To the COOK and his ASSISTANTS.)Go you into the house and despatch with all haste.
Lysidamvs:Hisce érgo abeant.Olympio:Properé cito intró ite ét cito deproperáte.
I’ll come in just now. Have the dinner charmingly sauced up for me; I want to have a charming meal. I really don’t care, now, to be eating in the style of your sumptuous foreigners. Be off, will you; but for the present, however, I take up my abode here.(The COOK and his ASSISTANTS go into the house.)OLYMPIO:Is there anything that detains you here?
ego iam íntus ero, facite cenam mihi ut ebria sit.séd lepide nitidéque volo, níl moror barbaricó bliteo.stasne etiam? i sis, ego hic habeo. numquid est ceterum quod morae sit?
STALINO:The servant-maid says that Casina has got a sword in-doors, to deprive you and me of life with it.
Lysidamvs:Gladiúm Casinam intus habére ait, qui me átque te intérimat.
OLYMPIO:I understand it. Just let her alone with it. They are imposing on you: I know these worthless baggages. However, do you now go into the house with me.
Olympio:Scio. síc sine habére;nugás agunt: nóviego illás malas mérces.quin tu í modo mécumdomum.
STALINO:But, i’ faith, I’m fearful of mischief:
Lysidamvs:At pól malum métuo.
only do you go. Reconnoitre, first, what’s going on within.
i tú modo, perspicitó prius quid íntus agátur.
OLYMPIO:My life’s as dear to me as yours is to you.
Olympio:Tam míhi mea vítaquam túa tibi cárast.
STALINO:But only do go now.OLYMPIO:If you’ll go yourself, I’ll go in with you.(They go into the house.) (Enter PARDALISCA, from the house, laughing aloud.)
verum í modo.Lysidamvs:Si tú iubes, em íbitur tecum.
PARDALISCA: (to herself.)Upon my faith, I do not believe that at Nemea, nor do I think that at Olympia,or anywhere else, there ever where such funny games as these ridiculous games that are going on in-doors here with our old gentleman and our bailiff Olympio. In-doors, all over the house, all are in a bustle; the old man is bawling away in the kitchen, and urging on the cooks.
Pardalisca:Nec pol ego Nemeae credo neque ego Olympiaeneque usquam ludos tam festivos fieriquam hic intus fiunt ludi ludificabilesseni nóstro et nostro Olympioni vilico.omnes festinant intus totis aedibus,senex ín culina clamat, hortatur coquos:
“Why don’t you go to work at once? Why don’t you serve up, if you are going to serve up? Make haste; the dinner ought to have been cooked by this.” And then this bailiff is strutting about with his chaplet, clothed in white and finely rigged out. And then these women are dressing up the armour-bearer in the bedroom,to give him to be married to our bailiff in place of Casina; but the artful baggages very cleverly conceal what the upshot of this is really to be. Then too, in a manner quite worthy of them, the cooks are very cleverly doing their best to the end that the old gentleman mayn’t get his dinner. They are upsetting the pots, and putting out the fire with the water.
“quin agitis hodie? quin datis, si quid datis?properate, cenam iam esse coctam oportuit.”vilicus is autem cum corona, candidevestitus, lautus exornatusque ambulat.illae autem armigerum in cubiculo exornant duae,quem dent pro Casina nuptum nostro vilico.sed nimium lepide dissimulant, quasi nil sciantfore huius quod futurumst; digne autem coquinimis lépide ei rei dant operam, ne cenet senex,aulas pervortunt, ignem restingunt aqua:
At the request of these ladies they are so doing; they, too, are determined to bundle the old fellow dinnerless out of doors, that they by themselves may blow out their own stomachs. I know these female gluttons; a merchant-ship full of victuals they can devour. But the door is opening.(Enter STALINO, from the house.)STALINO: (speaking to CLEOSTRATA, within.)
illarum oratu faciunt; illae autem senemcupiunt extrudere incenatum ex aedibus,ut ipsae solae ventres distendant suos.novi ego illas ambestrices: corbitam cibicomesse possunt. sed aperitur ostium.
If you are wise, wife, you’ll dine, after all, when the dinner’s cooked. I shall dine in the country, for I’m desirous to attend the new-made husband and the newly-made bride into the country (I know the mischievous habits of persons), that no one may carry her off. Do you people indulge your appetite.
Lysidamvs:Si sapitis, uxor, vos tamen cenabitis,cena ubi erit cocta; égo ruri cenavero.nam novom maritum ét novam nuptam volorus prosequi, novi hominum mores maleficos,ne quis eam abripiat. facite vostro animo volup.
But do make haste and send him and her out immediately, that at least we may get there in daylight. I shall be here tomorrow; to-morrow, wife, I’ll be having a banquet still.PARDALISCA: (aside.)
sed properate istum atque istam actutum emittere,tandem ut † veniamus luci; égo cras hic ero.cras habuero, uxor, ego tamen convivium.
’Tis as I said it would be; the women are packing the old fellow dinnerless out of doors.STALINO: (to PARDALISCA.)What are you doing here?
Pardalisca:Fit quod futurum dixi: incenatum senemforas extrudunt mulieres.Lysidamvs:Quid tu hic agis?
PARDALISCA:I’m going whither she sent me.
Pardalisca:Ego eo quo me ipsa misit.
STALINO:Really?
Lysidamvs:Veron?
PARDALISCA:Seriously.
Pardalisca:Serio.
STALINO:What are you looking for here?
Lysidamvs:Quid hic speculare?
PARDALISCA:Really I’m looking for nothing at all.
Pardalisca:Nil equidem speculor.
STALINO:Be off; you are loitering here; the others are bustling about in-doors.
Lysidamvs:Abi:tu hic cunctas, intus alii festinant.
PARDALISCA:I’m off.
Pardalisca:Eo.—
STALINO:Be off, then, will you, away from here, you jade of jades. (PARDALISCA goes into the house.) Is she gone then? I may now say here anything I please.
Lysidamvs:Abi hinc sis ergo, pessumarum pessuma.iamne abiit illaec? dicere hic quidvis licet.
He that’s in love, i’ faith, even if he is hungry, isn’t hungry at all. But see, the bailiff, my associate, companion, and husband-in-copartnership, is coming out of doors with wreath and torch.(Enter OLYMPIO, dressed in white, with a wreath on his head, and a torch in his hand, accompanied by MUSICIANS)OLYMPIO: (to one of the MUSICIANS.)
qui amat, tamen hercle, si esurit, nullum esurit.sed eccúm progreditur cum corona et lampademeus socius, compar, commaritus vilicus.
Come, piper, while they are escorting the new-made bride out of doors, make the whole of this street resound with a sweet wedding-tune.(He sings aloud.)
Olympio:Áge tibicen, dum íllam educunt húc novam nuptám foras,suavi cantu concelebra omnem hanc plateam hymenaeo.
Io Hymen hymenaee! Io Hymen!STALINO: (accosting him.)
hymen hymenaee o hymen.
How fare you, my preserver?OLYMPIO:I’m very hungry, faith; and, in fact, I’m not thirsty a little.
Lysidamvs:Quid agis, mea salus?Olympio:Esurio hercle, atque adeo hau salubriter.
STALINO:But I’m in love.
Lysidamvs:At ego amó.
OLYMPIO:Still, upon my faith, love, I shan’t be making any trial of you. For some time past my inside has been grumbling with emptiness.
Olympio:At ego hercle nihili facio. tibi amor pro cibost,mihi ieiunitate iam dudum intestina murmurant.
STALINO:But why is she now delaying so long in-doors, just as though on purpose?
Lysidamvs:Nam quid illaéc nunc tam diu intus remorantur remeligines?
The greater the haste I’m in, in so much the less is she.
quasi ob industriam, quanto ego plus propero, procedit minus.
OLYMPIO:What if I were even to trill an hymeneal lay?
Olympio:Quid si etiam suffundam hymenaeum, si qui citius prodeant?
STALINO:I agree to that; and I’ll help you at these our common nuptials.OLYMPIO: (STALINO joining, they sing.)
Lysidamvs:Censeo, et ego te adiutabo in nuptiis communibus.
Hymen hymenaee! Io Hymen!STALINO:Upon my faith, I’m dreadfully done up; one may burst one’s self with singing this hymeneal lay; if I do burst this way, I can’t burst any other, that I may make sure of.
Lysidamvs Olympio:Hymen hymenaee o hymen.Lysidamvs:Perii hercle ego miser, dirumpi hymenaeum cantando licet:illo morbo quo dirumpi cupio, non est copia.
OLYMPIO:Upon my faith, for sure, if you were a horse, you’d never be broken in.
Olympio:Edepol ne tu, sí equos esses, esses indomabilis.
STALINO:On what grounds?
Lysidamvs:Quo argumento?
OLYMPIO:You are too hard-mouthed.
Olympio:Nimis tenax es.
STALINO:Have you ever found me so?
Lysidamvs:Num me expertu'sexpertus esuspiam?
OLYMPIO:The Gods forbid! But the door makes a noise; they are coming out.
Olympio:Di melius faciant. sed crepuit ostium, exitur foras.
STALINO:I’ troth, the Gods do will me to be preserved at last. I already smell Casina at a distance. (They move to a distance.)(Enter, from the house, two FEMALE SERVANTS leading CHALINUS, veiled and dressed in women’s clothes, as CASINA.)TWO MAID-SERVANTS:Move on, and raise your feet a little over the threshold, newly-married bride; prosperously commence this journey, that you may always be alive for your husband, that you may be his superior in power, and the conqueror, and that your rule may gain the upper hand. Let your husband find you in clothes; you plunder your husband;
Lysidamvs:Di hercle me cupiunt servatum. iam oboluit Casinus procul.Pardalisca:Sensim supera tolle limen pedes, mea nova nupta;sospes iter incipe hoc, uti viro tuosémper sis superstes,tuaque út potior polléntia sit vincásque virum victríxque sies,tua vóx superet tuomque imperium: vir te vestiat, tu virum despolies.
by night and day to be tricking your husband, prithee, do remember.OLYMPIO: (to STALINO.)Upon my faith, at her downright peril, the instant she offends me ever so little!
noctúque et diu ut viro súbdola sis,ópsecro, memento.Olympio:Malo máxumo suo hercle ílico, ubi tántillum peccássit.
STALINO:Hold your tongue.
Lysidamvs:Tace.
OLYMPIO:I shall not hold my tongue.
Olympio:Nón taceo.
STALINO:What’s the matter
Lysidamvs:Quae rés?
OLYMPIO:These wicked jades are wickedly teaching her wicked lessons.
Olympio:Mala malaé male monstrat.
STALINO:Instead of being all ready, they’ll be bringing this matter all into confusion for me. They are striving at that, wishing for it, that they may have it all undone.
Lysidamvs:Faciés tu hanc rém mi ex paráta imparátam.id quaérunt volúnt, haec ut ínfecta fáciant.
TWO MAID-SERVANTS:Come, Olympio, as soon as you please, receive this wife of yours from us.(They present CHALINUS to him.)
Pardalisca:Age Olýmpio, quando vís, uxoremáccipe hanc ab nobis.
OLYMPIO:Hand her to me then, if you are going to hand her to me at all to-day.(They hand CHALINUS to him.)STALINO: (to the FEMALE SERVANTS.)
Olympio:Date érgo, datúrae si umquam éstis hodie.
Be off in-doors.TWO MAID-SERVANTS:Prithee, do deal gently with her who is so young and inexperienced.STALINO:It shall be so.Farewell; be off now.
Lysidamvs:Abíte intro.Pardalisca:Amábo, integrae átque imperítae huicimpército.Olympio:Futurum est.
TWO MAID-SERVANTS:Farewell.(They go into the house.)
Pardalisca:Valéte.Olympio:Ite iám.Lysidamvs:Ite.Pardalisca:Iám valete.
STALINO:Is my wife now gone?
Lysidamvs:Iamne ábscessit úxor?
OLYMPIO:She’s in the house; don’t be afraid.
Olympio:Domíst, ne time.
STALINO:Hurra! Now, faith, I’m free at last. (Addressing himself to CHALINUS as CASINA.) My sweetheart, my spring-flower, my little honey!(Embraces him.)
Lysidamvs:Eúax,nunc pól demum ego sum líber.meúm corculúm, melculúm, verculum.
OLYMPIO:But, hark you! you’ll beware, if you are wise, of some mishap: she’s mine.
Olympio:Heús tu,malo, sí sapies, cavébis;meást haec.
STALINO:I know that; but mine’s the first enjoyment.OLYMPIO: (holding him the torch.)
Lysidamvs:Sció, sed meus fructus est prior.
Hold this torch for me.STALINO:Why, no, I’ll hold her in my arms in preference. All-powerful Venus, a happy existence hast thou given me in giving me the possession of her! A dear little body! a dear little honey! (Hugs CHALINUS, who pretends to struggle.)
Olympio:Tene hánc lampadem.Lysidamvs:Ímmo ego hánc tenebo.Venus múltipotens, bona múlta mihidedísti, huius cúm copiám mihi dedísti.
OLYMPIO: (shouting aloud.)O my dear little wife! (Jumps about on one leg.)
Olympio:Ocorpúsculum malaculum,mea uxórcula. quae res?
STALINO:What’s the matter?
Lysidamvs:Quid est?
OLYMPIO:She has trod upon my toes.
Olympio:Ínstitit plantamquasi lúca bos.
STALINO: (aside.)I’ll compliment her, as it were. A mist is not so soft as is— her breast.(Pulls CHALINUS about.)
Lysidamvs:Tacé sis,nebula haúd est mollis aeque atque huius pectus est.
A pretty little bosom, upon my faith. (CHALINUS gives him a thrust with his elbow, on which he roars out.) Woe to unfortunate me!
Olympio:Edepol papillam bellulam—ei misero mihi.
OLYMPIO:What’s the matter?STALINO:She struck me in the breast with her elbow.
Lysidamvs:Quid est?Olympio:Péctus mi icit non cubito, verum ariete.
OLYMPIO:Why then, pray, do you maul her about? But she does not do so to me, who touch her gently.(CHALINUS gives him a poke with his elbow.)
Lysidamvs:Quid tu ergo hanc, quaeso, tractas tam dura manu?at mihi, qui belle hanc tracto, non bellum facit.
O me!STALINO:What’s the matter?
Olympio:Vah.Lysidamvs:Quid negotist?
OLYMPIO:Prithee, how robust she is! she has almost laid me flat with her elbow.
Olympio:Opsecro, ut valentulast,paene exposivit cubito.
STALINO:She wishes, then, to go to bed.
Lysidamvs:Cubitum ergo ire volt.
OLYMPIO:Nay but, why don’t we be off?
Olympio:Quin imus ergo?
STALINO: (taking hold of CHALINUS.)My pretty, pretty little dear!(They go into the house of ALCESIMUS.) (Enter MYRRHINA and PARADALISCA, from the house of STALINO.)
Lysidamvs:I, belle belliatula.—
MYRRHINA:Having been well and handsomely entertained indoors, we’ve come out here in the street to see the wedding-sports.
Myrrhina:Accéptae bene ét commode éximus íntusludós visere húc in viam nuptiális.numquam écastor úllo dié risi adaéque,neque hóc quod relícuom est plus rísuram opínor.
I’d like to know how Chalinus gets on—the newly-married bride with her new-made husband.Never, upon my faith, any day did I laugh so much, nor in the time that’s to come do I think I shall laugh more;
Pardalisca:Lúbet Chalinum quíd agat scire, nóvom nuptum cum nóvo marito.
and no poet ever did con trive a more artful plot than this was skilfully contrived by us.
Myrrhina:Nec fállaciam ástutiórem ullus fécitpoéta, atque ut haéc est fabré facta ab nóbis.
I’d now very much like the old fellow to come out, with his face well battered, than whom there is not a more wicked old man alive.
Cleostrata:Optúnso ore núnc pervelím progredíriseném, quo senéx nequiór nullus vívit.
Not even him do I deem to be more wicked who finds the room for him. Now, Pardalisca, do you be guard here (pointing to the door of her house); that whoever comes out from here, you may have some sport with him.
ne illum quidemnéquiorem árbitror ésse, qui locumpraébet illí … ⟨té⟩ nunc praesidemvolo híc, Pardalísca, esse, qui hínc exeateum ut lúdibrio hábeas.
PARDALISCA:I’ll do it with pleasure, and in my usual way.
Pardalisca:Libens fecero et solens.
MYRRHINA:Observe from here everything that’s going on indoors.
Myrrhina:… spectato: hinc omnia, intus quid agant …
PARDALISCA:Prithee, get behind me.
Pardalisca:… pone me, amabo.
MYRRHINA:You have liberty, too, to say freely and boldly to him anything you like.
Myrrhina:Et ibi audacius licetquaé velis líbere próloqui.
PARDALISCA: (in a low voice.)Be quiet; your door makes a noise. (They hide themselves.)(Enter OLYMPIO, in great alarm, from the house of ALCESIMUS.)OLYMPIO: (bawling aloud.)
Pardalisca:Tace,vostrá foris crépuit.
Neither where to fly to, nor where to conceal myself, nor how to hide this disgrace, do I know; so much have my master and myself been supereminently disgraced at these nuptials of ours. I’m now so ashamed, and now so afraid, and so ridiculous are we both. But, a simpleton, I’m now doing what’s new to me: I’m ashamed at that which has never shamed me before. (To the AUDIENCE.) Lend me your attention, while I repeat my exploits; it’s worth your while to catch them with your ears;so ridiculous to be heard, to be repeated, are these mishaps which I have met with in the house. [When straightway I had led my new-made bride into the room, I fastened the bolt; but, however, the gloom there was just like the night. I placed, I propped things against the door; I struggled hard that before the old fellow … with my bride.
Olympio:Neque quó fugiam neque ubí lateam neque hoc dédecus quo modo célemscio, tántum erus atque ego flágitio superávimus nuptiis nóstris,ita núnc pudeo atque ita núnc paveo atque ita inrídiculo sumus ámbo.sed ego ínsipiens nova núnc facio: pudet quém prius non puditum úmquamst.operám date, dum mea fácta itero: est operaé pretium auribus áccipere,ita rídicula auditu, íteratu ea súnt quae ego intus túrbavi.ubi intro hánc novam nuptam déduxi, rectá via in conclave ábduxi.sed ténebrae ibi erant tamquam ín puteo; dum sénex abest “decumbe” ínquam.cónloco fúlcio móllio blándior,út prior quám senex núp⟨tias pérpetrem⟩.
Then I began to be slow in my proceedings, for I looked behind me every now and then, lest the old fellow should break in …, a kiss, that provocative to lust, I asked of her first. She pushed back my hand, and allowed me not to give her a kiss in a quiet way.But then the more anxious was I, the more desirous to assert my privilege with Casina, and I longed to do the old fellow out of that task. The door I blocked up, so that the old man might not over-power me. (from the house.)MYRRHINA: (apart to CLEOSTRATA.)
tárdus esse ílico coépi, quoniam …respecto identidem, ne senex …inlecebram stupri principio eam savium posco,réppulit míhi manum, néque enim dare sibi sávium me sivit.enim iám magis adproperó, magis iam libet ín Casinam inruere …cupio íllam operam seni súrripere, forem óbdo, ne senex me ópprimeret.
Come now, you accost him. (Pointing to OLYMPIO.)CLEOSTRATA: (accosting OLYMPIO.)Where is your newly-made bride?
Myrrhina:Ágedum, tuadi hunc.Cleostrata:Ópsecro, ubi túa nova núptast?
OLYMPIO: (aside.)By heavens, I’m utterly undone; the thing’s all out.
Olympio:Perii hércle ego, manifésta res.
CLEOSTRATA: (overhearing him.)It’s right, then, that you should relate the whole affair as it happened. What’s going on in-doors? How fares Casina? Is she quite obsequious to your will?
Cleostrata:Omnem órdine remfatéri ergo aequom est. quíd intus agitur? quíd agit Casina?satin mórigera est?
OLYMPIO:I’m ashamed to tell it.
Olympio:Pudet dícere.
CLEOSTRATA:Relate it in its order just as you proceeded.
Cleostrata:Memora órdine, ut occéperas.
OLYMPIO:Upon my faith, I am ashamed.
Olympio:Pudet hércle.
CLEOSTRATA:Proceed boldly. After you went to bed, I want you to tell what took place after that.
Cleostrata:Age audacter …⟨post⟩quám decubuisti, índe volo memoráre quid est factum …
OLYMPIO:But it’s a disgraceful matter.
Olympio:… flagitium est.
CLEOSTRATA:I’ll take care that those who hear it shall be on their guard as to mentioning it.
Cleostrata:Cavebunt qui audierint. faciant …
OLYMPIO:That’s the principal thing.
Olympio:… hoc magnus est.
CLEOSTRATA:You kill me with weariness. Why don’t you proceed?
Cleostrata:Perdis. quin tu pergis?
OLYMPIO:—Ubi … us subtus porro …quid.
Olympio:Vbi… us suptus porro …Cleostrata:Quid?
OLYMPIO:Babae!
Olympio:Babae.
CLEOSTRATA:Quid?
Cleostrata:Quid?
OLYMPIO:Papae!
Olympio:Papae.
… quid est?OLYMPIO:Oh, erat maximum. Gladium ne haberet metui; id quaerere occœpi. Dum, gladiumne habeat, quaero, arripio capulum.
Cleostrata:… est?Olympio:Oh, erat maximum.… ⟨ferrum ne⟩ haberet metui: id quaerere occepi …dum gladium quaero, … ne habeat, arripio capulum.
Sed, quom cogito, non habuit gladium; nam id esset frigidius.
séd cum cogitó, non habuit gládium, nam esset frígidus.
CLEOSTRATA:Eloquere.
Cleostrata:Éloquere.
OLYMPIO:At pudet.
Olympio:At pudét.
CLEOSTRATA:Num radix fuit?
Cleostrata:Num radix fúit,
OLYMPIO:Non fuit.
Olympio:Non fuít.
CLEOSTRATA:Num cucumis?
Cleostrata:Num cucumis?
OLYMPIO:Profecto hercle non fuit quidquam olerum; Nisi quidquid erat, calamitas profecto attigerat nunquam. Ita, quidquid erat, grande erat.
Olympio:Profecto hercle … non fuit quicquam holerum,nisí, quidquid erat, cálamitas profécto attigerat númquam.íta, quidquid erat, grande erat.
MYRRHINA:Quid fit denique? Edisserta.
Myrrhina:Quíd fit denique? edisserta.
OLYMPIO:—sepit veste id, quî estis. Ubi illum saltum video obseptum; Rogo, ut altero sinat ire. Ita, quidquid erat, grande erat. Tollo ut obvortam cubitissim … Ullum mutire …Surge, ut ineam in … Atque illam in …
Olympio:Vbi appello Casinam, †inquit“amábo, mea uxórcula, cur vírum tuom sic me spérnis?nimis tú quidem hercle imméritomeó mi haec facís, quia mihí te expetívi.”ílla haud verbum fácit et saepit véste id qui estis ⟨múlieres⟩.úbi illum saltum vídeo opsaeptum, rógo ut alteró sinat ire.volo, ut obvertam, cubitis im …ullum muttit e …surgo, ut in eam in …atque illam in …
MYRRHINA:Perlepide narrat …
Myrrhina:Perlepide narrat …
OLYMPIO:When I addressed Casina, “Casina,” said I, “my dear wife, why do you slight your husband in this fashion? Really, upon my faith, you do this quite without my deserving it, inasmuch as I have given you the preference as my wife.”She answered not a word.When I attempted a kiss, a beard pricked my lips just like briars.Forthwith, as I was upon my knees, she struck my head with her feet. I tumbled headlong from the bed; she leapt down upon me and punched my face. From there in silence out of doors I came in this guise; by your leaves I say it; may the old fellow drink of the same cup that I have been drinking of.
Olympio:Savium …itá quasi saetis lábra mihi compúngit barba,contínuo in genua ut ástiti, pectús mihi pedibus pércutit.decído de lecto praécipes: subsílit, optundit ós mihi.indé foras tacitus prófugiens exeo hóc ornatu quó vides,ut sénex hoc eodem póculo, quo egó bibi, biberet.
CLEOSTRATA:Most excellent. But where’s your cloak?
Cleostrata:Óptume est.séd ubi est palliolúm tuom?
OLYMPIO: (pointing to the house of ALCESIMUS.)I left it here in-doors.
Olympio:Hic íntus relíqui.
CLEOSTRATA:Well now; hasn’t a very nice trick been played you?
Cleostrata:Quid núnc? satin lepide adita est vobís manus?
OLYMPIO:Yes, and deservedly. Hush! the door makes a noise. What, is she following me, I wonder? (They go to a distance.)(Enter STALINO, in haste, from the house of ALCESIMUS.)STALINO: (aloud to himself.)
Olympio:Mérito.séd concrepuerúnt fores. num illa mé nunc séquitur?
I’m branded with the greatest disgrace, nor what, under my circumstances to do, do I know. Nor yet how to look my wife in the face; so utterly undone am I! All my misdeeds are discovered.In every way, to my confusion, I am ruined! So clearly am I hooked fast by the jaws! nor know I in what way to clear myself before my wife; wretch that I am, to have been stripped of my cloak! … These clandestine nuptials are all discovered.
Lysidamvs:Máxumo ego ardeo flágitio néc quid agam meis rébus scio,néc meam ut uxorem áspiciam cóntra oculis, ita dísperii;⟨óm⟩nia palam súnt probra,ómnibus modis óccidi miser.… ita mánufesto faucíbus teneor… ⟨nec⟩ quibus modis purgem scio me meae uxori.… ⟨at⟩que expálliatus súm miser,… ⟨cla⟩ndestinae núptiae.
… I judge it best for me … She taught my wife … the way … But who is there, what person would be ready to undertake this officefor me? What now to do I know not, except to imitate worthless slaves, and fly from the house; for there’s no safety for my shoulder-blades if I return home. I may tell lies there; i’ faith, I shall get a basting, though much against my will, although I have earned my punishment.
… censeo… mihi optumum est.… intro ad uxorem meamsúfferamque eí meum térgum ob iniúriam.séd ecquis est quí homo munús velit fúngierpró me? quid núnc agam néscio, nisi ut ímprobosfamulos imiter ac domo fugiam.nam salus nulla est scapulis, si domum redeo.… nugas istic dicere licet. vapulo hercle ego invitus tamenetsi malum merui.
I’ll at once betake myself in this direction in flight.(He begins to run.)OLYMPIO: (coming forward with the others.)Hallo there! Stop, this instant, you amorous one!STALINO: (to himself.)I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear.(Runs on.] (Enter CHALINUS, from the house of ALCESIMUS, dressed in woman’s clothes.)
hac dabo protinam ⟨me⟩ et fugiam.Chalinvs:Heus, sta ílico, amátor.Lysidamvs:Óccidi, revocór: quasi non aúdiam, abíbo.
CHALINUS:Where are you, you who imitate the morals of the Massilians? Now, if you wish to be taking liberties with me, is a good opportunity[… at your risk. By my troth, you are undone. Come, only step this way. … Now I fancy that when a witness out of … I’ll find … thus out of the street I order … a murmur I …
Chalinvs:Úbi tu es, qui cólere mores Mássilienses póstulas?nunc tu si vis subigitare me, probast occasio.redi sis in cubiculum; periisti hercle. age, accede huc modo.nunc ego tecum aequom arbitrum extra considium captavero.
STALINO:Now am I in extreme danger, between the stone and the sacrifice, nor know I which way to fly … The wolf-dogs … it was …CHALINUS:I’ faith, I do think … old there now like new.]
Lysidamvs:Perii, fusti defloccabit iam illic homo lumbos meos.hac iter faciundumst, nam illac lumbifragiumst obviam.Cleostrata:Iubeo te salvere, amator.
STALINO: (turning about.)
Lysidamvs:Ecce autem uxor obviamst:[nunc ego intér sacrum saxumque sum nec quo fugiam scio.]hac lupi, hac canes: lupina scaeva fusti rem gerit;hercle opinor permutabo ego illuc nunc verbum vetus:
I’ll go this way. I trust that the omen of a bitch’s barking will prove the better.CLEOSTRATA:What are you doing, my husband, my good man? Whence come you in this guise?
hac ibo, caninam scaevam spero meliorem fore.Myrrhina:Quid agis, dismarite?Cleostrata:Mi vir, unde hoc ornatu advenis?
What have you done with your walking-stick, or how disposed of the cloak you had?
quid fecisti scipione aut quod habuisti pallium?
TWO MAID-SERVANTS:While he was playing his loving pranks with Casina, he lost it, I fancy.STALINO: (aside.)
Myrrhina:In adulterio, dum moechissat Casinam, credo perdidit.
Utterly undone!CHALINUS: (coming up to STALINO.)Shall we go to bed again? I am Casina.
Lysidamvs:Occidi.Chalinvs:Etiamne imus cubitum? Casina sum.
STALINO:Away with you to utter perdition!
Lysidamvs:I in malam crucem.
CHALINUS:Don’t you love me?
Chalinvs:Non amas me?
CLEOSTRATA:Nay, but answer me; what has become of your cloak?STALINO: (running about, exclaiming.)
Cleostrata:Quin responde, tuo quid factum est pallio?
[Upon my faith, wife, the Bacchantes!Bacchantes!Bacchantes!TWO MAID-SERVANTS:He’s making pretence on purposefor, upon my word, no Bacchantes are exhibiting at the present time.STALINO:I forgot that. But still, the Bacchantes!—CLEOSTRATA:How, the Bacchantes?Why, that cannot be.TWO MAID-SERVANTS:By my troth, you are in a fright.STALINO:What I?CLEOSTRATA: (to the SERVANT.)I’ faith, do tell no lies, for it’s quite clear. … ]OLYMPIO:[… who even made a notorius man of me with his flagrant acts.]
Lysidamvs:Bacchae hercle, uxor—Cleostrata:Bacchae?Lysidamvs:Bacchae hercle, uxor—Myrrhina:Nugatur sciens,nam ecastor nunc Bacchae nullae ludunt.Lysidamvs:Oblitus fui,sed tamén Bacchae—Cleostrata:Quid, Bacchae?Lysidamvs:Sin id fieri non potest—Cleostrata:Times ecastor.Lysidamvs:Egone?Cleostrata:Mentire hercle. nam palles male.ṇ … quid me ṿẹ … ụṣ … am me rog̣ạs?… ṃạḷẹ ṛ … mihi… g̣̣ṛatulor.… q̣ụ … ṣẹṇexḥọ … ọṇ … ụ… ụṇc̣ cạsiṇụst | — |quị ḥịc̣ … lem frus … ṛạm … ḍịs(Olympio):qui étiam me miserum famosum fecit flagitiis suis.
STALINO:Won’t you hold your tongue?
Lysidamvs:Non taces?
OLYMPIO:I’ troth, I certainly shall not hold my tongue; for with the greatest earnestness you begged me to ask for Casina as my wife.
Olympio:Non herle vero taceo. nam tu maxumome opsecravisti opere, Casinam ut poscerem uxorem mihitúi amoris causa.
STALINO:That I didon account of my love for you.CLEOSTRATA:I’ faith, of her rather. (Turning to CHALINUS.)He’d have been making an attack upon you, in fact.
Lysidamvs:Ego istuc feci?Olympio:Immo Hector Iliuste quidem oppresset.
STALINO:I been doing these things that you mention?
Lysidamvs:Feci égo istaec dicta quae vos dicitis?
CLEOSTRATA:And do you ask me that?
Cleostrata:Rogitas etiam?
STALINO:If indeed I have done so, I’ve been doing wrong.
Lysidamvs:Si quidem hercle feci, feci nequiter.
CLEOSTRATA:Just come back in-doors here; I’ll remind you, if you have forgotten anything.
Cleostrata:Redi modo huc intro: monebo, si qui meministi minus.
STALINO:Troth, I think, I’ll believe you in preference as to what you say.
Lysidamvs:Hercle, opinor, potius vobis credam quod vos dicitis.
But, wife, do grant pardon to your husband for this; Myrrhina, do entreat Cleostrata! If ever, from this time forward, I love Casina, or even think of it, should I love her, I say, should I ever hereafter, in fact, be guilty of such a thing, there’s no reason, wife, why you shouldn’t lash me with twigs as I hang up by the arms.
sed, uxor, da viro ⟨tuo⟩ hanc veniam. Myrrhina, ora Cleostratam;si umquam posthac aut amasso Casinam aut occepso modo,ne ut eam amasso, sí ego umquam adeo posthac tale admiseronulla causast, quin pendentem me, uxor, virgis verberes.
MYRRHINA:On my word, I do think that forgiveness may be granted for this.
Myrrhina:Censeo ecastor veniam hanc dandam.
CLEOSTRATA: (to MYRRHINA.)I’ll do as you request me.(To STALINO.)
Cleostrata:Faciam ut iubes.
On this account with the less difficulty do I now grant you this pardon, that, from being a long one, we mayn’t be making this Play still longer.
propter eam rem hanc tibi nunc veniam minus gravate prospero,hanc ex longa longiorem ne faciamus fabulam.
STALINO:You are not angry?
Lysidamvs:Non irata es?
CLEOSTRATA:I am not angry.
Cleostrata:Non sum irata.
STALINO:Am I to trust your word?
Lysidamvs:Tuaen fidei credo?
CLEOSTRATA:You may my word.
Cleostrata:Meae.
STALINO:No person ever did have a more amiable wife than I’ve got.
Lysidamvs:Lepidiorem uxorem nemo quisquam quam ego habeo hanc habet.
CHALINUS:Keep to her, then.CLEOSTRATA: (to CHALINUS.)Come you, give him back his walking-stick and cloak.
Cleostrata:Age tu, redde huic scipionem et pallium.
CHALINUS: (taking them from behind him, where he had held them.)Take them, if you wish.
Chalinvs:Tene, si lubet.
Upon my faith, a great injustice has really been most egregiously done me; I’ve been married to two husbands; neither has behaved to me as to a new-made bride.
mihi quidem edepol insignite factast magna iniuria:duobus nupsi, neuter fecit quod novae nuptae solet.
The PLAYERS.:Spectators, what’s to be done within, we’ll tell you here. This Casina will be discovered to be the daughter of this person next door, and she’ll be married to Euthynicus, our master’s son.
Spectatores, quod futurumst intus, id memorabimus.haec Casina huius reperietur filia esse ex proxumoeaque nubet Euthynico nostro erili filio.
Now it’s only fair that with your deserving hands you should give us deserved applause. He who does so, may he always keep his mistress without the knowledge of his wife. But he who doesn’t with his hands clap as loud as he can, in place of a mistress, may a he-goat, soused in bilge-water, be palmed off upon him.
nunc vos aequomst manibus meritis meritam mercedem dare:qui faxit, clam uxorem ducet semper scortum quod volet;verum qui non manibus clare, quantum poterit, plauserit,ei pro scorto supponetur hircus unctus nautea.