What does it say? DEMOSTHENES It says here how he must end. NICIAS And how? DEMOSTHENES How? t...
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alone? Dear Demos, do you see this stewed hare which I bring you? CLEON Ah! rascal! you have shame...
lawsuits. CLEON Eh! what! Knights, are you helping them? But, if I am beaten, it is in your cause...
a cock flapping his wings or a bull tossing his horns. DEMOS What, I? AGORACRITUS Then, after he...
At Archedemus poke, Who has not cut his guildsmen yet, though seven years old; Yet up among the de...
DIONYSUS Aye, but he's speaking to the dead, you knave, Who cannot hear us though we call them thr...
Turning him round like a lazy lout, Straight on my mouth deliver a facer, Knocking my ivory choirm...
Unwilling in the Muses' holy field The self-same flowers as Phrynichus to cull. But he from all th...
A holy man! 'Tis now the other's turn. DIONYSUS Hi! Hi! AEACUS Hallo! DIONYSUS Look at those h...
Say what he thinks; the city travails sore. DIONYSUS What does she think herself about him? She l...
AEACUS O heaven and earth! When I do that, I can't contain myself. XANTHIAS Phoebus Apollo! clap...
O bring me fire, and bring me frankincense. I'll pray, or e'er the clash of wits begin, To judge t...
By Cycnuses or Memnons clad in terrible array, With bells upon their horses' heads, the audience ...
are statelier, grander robes than ours. Such was my plan: but when you began, you spoilt and degra...
What an idea! FIRST OLD WOMAN But you were tapping at the door. YOUNG MAN Death would be sweeter...