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Now at any rate you look like a man, and they won’t make fun of you. Ah! if you had not offended me so badly, I would take out that nasty insect you have in your eye for you.

Ah! so that’s what was annoying me so! Look, here’s a ring, just remove the insect, and show it me. By Zeus! it has been hurting my eye this ever so long.

Well, I agree, though your manners are not over and above pleasant. Oh! what a huge great gnat! just look! It’s from Tricorysus, for sure.

A thousand thanks! the creature was digging a regular well in my eye; now it’s gone, my tears flow freely.

I will wipe them for you—bad, naughty man though you are. Now, just one kiss.

No—a kiss, certainly not!

Just one, whether you like it or not.

Oh! those confounded women! how they do cajole us! How true the saying: Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without ’em”! Come, let us