Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
Where is he?
PHAEDRIA
Do you ask the question? Don’t you see him?
PYTHIAS
See whom, pray?
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PHAEDRIA
This fellow, to be sure (pointing).
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PYTHIAS
What person is this?
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PHAEDRIA
The same that was brought to your house to-day.
PYTHIAS
Not one of our people has ever beheld this person with her eyes, Phaedria.
PYTHIAS
Prithee, did you fancy that this was he who was brought to our house?
PHAEDRIA
Why, I had no other.
this one really isn’t to be compared with the other. He was of a handsome and genteel appearance.
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PHAEDRIA
He seemed so, just then, because he was decked out in party-colored clothes:In party-colored clothes: It was the custom to dress Eunuchs in party-colored clothes of bright hue. Most probably it was from them that the motley descended to the fools and buffoons of the Middle Ages. now he appears ugly, for this reason—because he hasn’t got them on.
PYTHIAS
Prithee, do hold your tongue; as though indeed the difference was so trifling.
A young man was brought to our house to-day, whom, really, Phaedria, you would have liked to look upon. This is a withered, antiquated, lethargic, old fellow, with a speckled complexion.With a speckled complexion: Colore stellionino; probably having spots or freckles on his face like a stellio or lizard.
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PHAEDRIA
Hah! What tale is this? You’ll so befool me that I sha’n’t know what I bought.
(To DORUS.) How now, sirrah, did I not buy you?
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DORUS
You did buy me.
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PYTHIAS
Bid him answer me in my turn.
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