Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
And it will be given you presently.
BACCHIS
Just when you please; do I press you ?
SYRUS
But do you know what you are to do, pray?
SYRUS
You must now go over to the house of Menedemus, and your equipage
must be taken over thither.
740
BACCHIS
What scheme are you upon, you rascal?
740
SYRUS
What, I? Coining money to give you.
740
BACCHIS
Do you think me a proper person for you to play upon?
SYRUS
It’s not without a purpose.
BACCHIS
Why, have I any business then with you here?
SYRUS
O no; I’m only going to give you what’s your own.
BACCHIS
Then let’s be going.Let’s be going: Colman here remarks to the following effect: There is some difficulty in this and the next speech in the original, and the Commentators have been puzzled to make sense of them. It seems to me that the Poet’s intention is no more than this: Bacchis expresses some reluctance to act under the direction of Syrus, but is at length prevailed on, finding that he can by those means contrive to pay her the money which he has promised her.
SYRUS
Follow this way. (Goes to the door of MENEDIEMUS, and calls.) Ho there! Dromo.
DROMO
Who is it wants me?
SYRUS
Take over all the attendants of Bacchis to your house here immediately.
SYRUS
Ask no questions. Let them take what they brought here with them. The old gentleman will hope his expenses are lightened by their departure; for sure he little knows how much loss this trifling gain will bring him. You, Dromo, if you are wise, know nothing of what you do know.
745
