Perde 4
[Textpart 7]
What fellow are you? What do you mean? What business have you with her?
CHREMES
I’ll let you know: in the first place, I assert that she is a freeborn woman.
CHREMES
A citizen of Attica.
CHREMES
My own sister.
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CHREMES
Now, therefore, Captain, I give you warning; don’t you use any violence toward her. Thais, I’m going to Sophrona, the nurse, that I may bring her here and show her these tokens.
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THRASO
What! Are you to prevent me from touching what’s my own?
CHREMES
I will prevent it, I tell you.
GNATHO
Do you hear him? He is convicting himself of theft. Is not that enough for you?
THRASO
Do you say the same, Thais?
THAIS
Go, find some one to answer you.
THRASO
What are we to do now?
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GNATHO
Why, go back again: she’ll soon be with you, of her own accord, to entreat forgiveness.
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GNATHO
Certainly, yes. I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won’t; when you won’t, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
GNATHO
Shall I dismiss the army then?
THRASO
Whenever you like.
