Dio Monologue from The Frogs

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

male · sarcastic · 1:06 min

For mercy's sake, not till I'm going to vomit. XAN. What! must I bear these burdens, and not make One of the jokes Ameipsias and Lycis And Phrynichus, in every play they write, Put in the mouths of all their burden-bearers? DIO. Don't make them; no! I tell you when I see Their plays, and hear those jokes, I come away More than a twelvemonth older than I went. XAN. O thrice unlucky neck of mine, which now Is getting crushed, yet must not crack its joke! DIO. Now is not this fine pampered insolence When I myself, Dionysus, son of--Pipkin, Toil on afoot, and let this fellow ride, Taking no trouble, and no burden bearing? (XAN: What, don't I bear?) How can you when you're riding? (XAN: Why, I bear these.) How?

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