Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain
Act Four, Scene Nine
Enter a BOY from the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.
A BOY
to someone within. Don’t you be advising me; I remember my duty; this moment I’ll find him. Wherever on earth, he may chance to be, I’ll search him out; I’ll not be sparing of my pains.
PYRGOPOLINICES
‘Tis I he is looking for, I’ll go and meet this boy.
PYRGOPOLINICES
What two?
A BOY
Mars and Venus.
PYRGOPOLINICES
A sprightly boy.
Do succour one in love. Why do you stay? Why don’t you go in?
PYRGOPOLINICES
Well, I’ll go. Enters the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.
A BOY
There has he entangled himself at once in the toils. Now I will on to the uproar; I hear a tumult within.
- At his post: He alludes to the attitude in which the old gentleman, Periplecomenus, is standing in-doors, ready to sally forth on the Captain the moment he is entrapped. ↵