Acon and Kepos
A CON
K EPOS ! what brings thee from the market-place?
K EPOS
What drove me from it, rather ask.
A CON
Well, what?
K EPOS
There was a scramble round about my stall,
And two unlucky boys were fighting hard
Which of them should sweep off the fruit; at last
They overturn'd the board: 'twas time to run.
A CON
And were the people then indifferent?
K EPOS
At first they were not; presently they laught
To see a split pomegranate's slippery fruit
Drop from the fingers of the foremost two,
With nothing left between them but hard rind
And deeply-dyed and ever-during stain.
A CON
Children of Hellas! learn your lesson here,
Nor touch pomegranate in the market-place.
K EPOS ! what brings thee from the market-place?
K EPOS
What drove me from it, rather ask.
A CON
Well, what?
K EPOS
There was a scramble round about my stall,
And two unlucky boys were fighting hard
Which of them should sweep off the fruit; at last
They overturn'd the board: 'twas time to run.
A CON
And were the people then indifferent?
K EPOS
At first they were not; presently they laught
To see a split pomegranate's slippery fruit
Drop from the fingers of the foremost two,
With nothing left between them but hard rind
And deeply-dyed and ever-during stain.
A CON
Children of Hellas! learn your lesson here,
Nor touch pomegranate in the market-place.
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