Perde 2
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I’faith, I have neither time for counsel, nor resources for assistance. But what’s the matter now?
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CHARINUS
To-day you are going to take a wife?
CHARINUS
Pamphilus, if you do that, you behold me this day for the last time.
CHARINUS
Ah me! I dread to tell it; prithee, do you tell it, Byrrhia.
BYRRHIA
He’s in love with your betrothed.
PAMPHILUS
Assuredly he’s not of my way of thinking. Come now, tell me,
have you had any more to do with her, Charinus?
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CHARINUS
Oh Pamphilus, nothing.
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PAMPHILUS
How much I wish you had.
CHARINUS
Now, by our friendship and by my affection, I do beseech you, in the first place, not to marry her.
PAMPHILUS
For my own part I’ll use my endeavors.
CHARINUS
But if that can not be, or if this marriage is agreeable to you—
PAMPHILUS
Agreeable to me?
CHARINUS
Put it off for some days at least, while I go elsewhere, that I may not be witness.
PAMPHILUS
Now listen, once for all:
I think it, Charinus, to be by no means the part of an ingenuous man, when he confers nothing, to expect that it should be considered as an obligation on his part. I am more desirous to avoid this match, than you to gain it.
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