Perde 5
[Textpart 6]
She’s looking for me.
1005
PYTHIAS
And there he is, I see; I’ll go up to him.
1005
PARMENO
What’s the matter, simpleton? What do you mean? What are you laughing about? Still going on?
PYTHIAS
I’m dying; I’m wretchedly tired with laughing at you.
PYTHIAS
Do you ask? Upon my faith, I never did see, nor shall see, a more silly fellow. Oh dear, I can not well express what amusement you’ve afforded in-doors.
And still I formerly took you to be a clever and shrewd person. Why, was there any need for you instantly to believe what I told you? Or were you not content with the crime, which by your advice the young man had been guilty of, without betraying the poor fellow to his father as well?
1010
Why, what do you suppose his feelings must have been at the moment when his father saw him clothed in that dress? Well, do you now understand that you are done for?
PARMENO
Hah! what is it you say, you hussy? Have you been telling me lies? What, laughing still? Does it appear so delightful to you, you jade, to be making fools of us?
PARMENO
Yes, indeed, if you can do it with impunity.
PARMENO
By heavens, I’ll repay you!
PYTHIAS
I believe you; but, perhaps, that which you are threatening, Parmeno, will need a future day;
you’ll be trussed up directly, for rendering a silly young man remarkable for disgraceful conduct, and then betraying him to his father; they’ll both be making an example of you.
1020
PYTHIAS
This reward has been found you in return for that present of yours;In return for that present of yours: By the present she means Chaerea in the disguise of the Eunuch. I’m off.
PARMENO
Wretch that I am; just like a rat, this day I’ve come to destruction through betrayal of myself.Through betrayal of myself: Which betrays itself by its own squeaking.
[Textpart 7]
Well now? With what hope, or what design, are we come hither? What do you intend to do, Thraso?
THRASO
What, I? To surrender myself to Thais, and do what she bids me.
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