Perde 5
[Textpart 1]
What! do you persist, hussy, in talking ambiguously to me? I do know; I don’t know; he has gone off; I have heard; I wasn’t there. Don’t you mean to tell me plainly, whatever it is? The girl in tears, with her garments torn, is mute;
THAIS
the Eunuch is off: for what reason? What has happened? Won’t you speak?
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PYTHIAS
Wretch that I am, what am I to say to you? They declare that he was not a Eunuch.
PYTHIAS
That stripling, the brother of Phaedria.
THAIS
What’s that you say, you hag?
PYTHIAS
And I am satisfied of it.
THAIS
Pray, what business had he at my house? What brought him there?
825
PYTHIAS
I don’t know; unless, as I suppose, he was in love with Pamphila.
825
THAIS
Alas! to my confusion, unhappy woman that I am, I’m undone, if what you tell me is true. Is it about this that the girl is crying?
THAIS
How say you, you arch-jade? Did I not warn you about this very thing, when I was going away from here?
PYTHIAS
What could I do? Just as you ordered, she was intrusted to his care only.
830
THAIS
Hussy, I’ve been intrusting the sheep to the wolf. I’m quite ashamed to have been imposed upon in this way. What sort of man was he?
PYTHIAS
Hush! hush! mistress, pray; we are all right. Here we have the very man.
PYTHIAS
Why there, to the left.
