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The Plays of Roswitha

Part 2 — Scene VIII

Christopher (Christopher Marie) St. John translation

SOLDIERS. Here we are sweating like pigs and what’s the use? Their clothes cling to their bodies like their own skin. What’s more, our chief, who ordered us to strip them, sits there snoring, and there’s no way of waking him. We will go to the Emperor and tell him all that has passed.

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