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ARISTOPHANES' FROGS
Euripides.
Bah, I disdain to give a thought to it!
I'll dash it from his hands in half a minute.
[He racks his memory.
Dionysus.
Well, quote another;—and beware of oil-cans.
Euripides.
"Great Cadmus long ago, Agenor's son,
From Sidon racing, . . ."
Aeschylus.
Found his oil-can gone!
Dionysus.
Oh, this is awful! Buy the thing outright,
Before it messes every blessed prologue!
Euripides.
I buy him off?
Dionysus.
I strongly recommend it.
Euripides.
No; I have many prologues yet to cite
Where he can't find a chink to pour his oil,
"As rapid wheels to Pisa bore him on,
Tantalian Pelops . . ."
Aeschylus.
Found his oil-can gone!
