Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
So I perceive. Pray, do you see any thing here that don’t please you?
GNATHO
I believe you,—but any thing else, pray?
GNATHO
Because you are out of spirits.
PARMENO
Not in the least.
GNATHO
Well, don’t be so; but what think you of this slave?
PARMENO
Really, not amiss.
GNATHO
I’ve galled the fellow.
PARMENO
How mistaken you are in your notion!
GNATHO
How far do you suppose this gift will prove acceptable to Thais?
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PARMENO
It’s this you mean to say now, that we are discarded there. Hark you, there are vicissitudes in all things.
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GNATHO
For the next six months, Parmeno, I’ll set you at ease; you sha’n’t have to be running to and fro, or sitting up till daylight. Don’t I make you happy?
PARMENO
Me? O prodigiously!
GNATHO
That’s my way with my friends.
GNATHO
I’m detaining you; perhaps you were about to go somewhere else.
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GNATHO
In that case then, lend me your services a little; let me be introduced to her.
PARMENO
Very well; (GNATHO knocks at the door, which immediately opens) now the door is open for you, (aside) because you are bringing her.
