Part 14 (2/2)

How unfortunate I am! O my poor flax!

It's left at home unstript.

LYSISTRATA

So here's another That wishes to go home and strip her flax.

Inside again!

2ND WOMAN

No, by the G.o.ddess of Light, I'll be back as soon as I have flayed it properly.

LYSISTRATA

You'll not flay anything. For if you begin There'll not be one here but has a patch to be flayed.

3RD WOMAN

O holy Eilithyia, stay this birth Till I have left the precincts of the place!

LYSISTRATA

What nonsense is this?

3RD WOMAN

I'll drop it any minute.

LYSISTRATA

Yesterday you weren't with child.

3RD WOMAN

But I am today.

O let me find a midwife, Lysistrata.

O quickly!

LYSISTRATA

Now what story is this you tell?

What is this hard lump here?

3RD WOMAN

It's a male child.

LYSISTRATA

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