Ricola

PSEUDOLO
I’ll tear you to pieces with my words. Shameless!

BALLIONE
It’s true.

CALIDORO
Scoundrel!

BALLIONE
Indeed.

PSEUDOLO
Whipping-post back!

BALLIONE
Why not?

CALIDORO
Body-snatcher!

BALLIONE
Exactly.

PSEUDOLO
Gallows-rogue!

BALLIONE
Well said.

CALIDORO
Betrayer of friends!

BALLIONE
In person.

PSEUDOLO
Patricide!

BALLIONE (to Calidoro)
Your turn.

CALIDORO
Sacrilegious one!

BALLIONE
I confess.

PSEUDOLO
Perjurer!

BALLIONE
That’s old.

CALIDORO
Outlaw!

BALLIONE
Not bad.

PSEUDOLO
Corrupter of youth!

BALLIONE
You can say that.

CALIDORO
Thief!

BALLIONE
Bah!

PSEUDOLO
Runaway slave!

BALLIONE
Bah!

CALIDORO
Swindler of the people!

BALLIONE
Agreed.

PSEUDOLO
Cheater!

CALIDORO
Filth!

PSEUDOLO
Pimp!

CALIDORO
Dirtbag!

BALLIONE
Well done, my little singers!

CALIDORO
You surely beat your own father and mother.

BALLIONE
Me? I killed them. Better that than keeping them. Was I wrong?

PSEUDOLO
I think we’re pouring words into a bottomless pit here. Wasted effort.

BALLIONE
Anything else to say to me?

"Pseudolus" -Titus Livius Macchus