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SCENE I.
Enter, from HEGIO's house, a LAD, servant to HEGIO.May Jove and all the Gods, Ergasilus,
Confound thee and thy belly, with all Parasites,
And all who shall hereafter entertain them!
Storm, tempest, devastation, have just broke
Their way into our house!—I was afraid,
He would have seiz'd me, like an hungry wolf:
I was indeed in a most piteous fright,
He made such horrid grinding with his teeth.—
Soon as he came, he knock'd down the whole larder
With all the meat in't:—then he snatch'd a knife,
And stuck three pigs directly in the throat;—
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And ask'd the cook, whether the salting-pans
With their contents might not be clap'd upon
The fire together all at once:—He has broke
The cellar door down, laid the store-room open.—
Secure him, I beseech you, fellow-servants:—
I'll to my master, tell him he must order
Some more provisions, if he means to have
Any himself:—for, as this fellow manages,
There's nothing left, or nothing will be shortly.
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