Perde 4
[Textpart 1]
That’s nothing to you.
PAMPHILUS
Dear me, what, now at last?
DAVUS
Presently I’ll give you what I’ve hit upon.
[Textpart 2]
Now, wherever he is, I’ll take care that your own Pamphilus shall be found for you, and brought to you by me; do you only, my life, cease to vex yourself.
MYSIS
Who is it? Why, Pamphilus, you do present yourself opportunely to me.
My mistress charged me to beg of you, if you love her, to come to her directly; she says she wishes to see you.
PAMPHILUS
Alas! I am undone; this dilemma grows apace! (To DAVUS.) For me and her, unfortunate persons, now to be tortured this way through your means;
for I am sent for, because she has discovered that my marriage is in preparation.
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CHARINUS
From which, indeed, how easily a respite could have been obtained, if he (pointing to DAVUS.) had kept himself quiet.
DAVUS
Do proceed; if he isn’t sufficiently angry of his own accord, do you irritate him.
MYSIS
Aye faith, that is the case; and for that reason, poor thing, she is now in distress.
PAMPHILUS
Mysis, I swear by all the Gods that I will never forsake her;
not if I were to know that all men would be my enemies in consequence. Her have I chosen for mine; she has fallen to my lot; our feelings are congenial; farewell they, who wish for a separation between us; nothing but Death separates her from me.
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PAMPHILUS
Not the responses of Apollo are more true than this. If it can possibly be contrived that my father may not believe
that this marriage has been broken off through me, I could wish it. But if that can not be, I will do that which is easily effected, for him to believe that through me it has been caused. What do you think of me?
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CHARINUS
That you are as unhappy as myself.
DAVUS
I’m contriving an expedient.
