Perde 5
[Textpart 7]
Why, really, if you persist in being troublesome—
DEMIPHO
What will you do?
PHORMIO
What, I? You fancy, perhaps, just now, that I am the protector of the portionless; for the well portioned,For the well portioned: Though Colman thinks otherwise, it is pretty clear that he alludes to Nausistrata in these words.
I’m in the habit of being so as well.
940
CHREMES
What’s that to us?
940
PHORMIO
Nothing at all. I know a certain lady here (pointing at CHREMES’S house) whose husband had—
940
DEMIPHO
What’s the matter?
PHORMIO
Another wife at Lemnos—
PHORMIO
By whom he had a daughter; and her he is secretly bringing up.
CHREMES
I’m dead and buried!
PHORMIO
This I shall assuredly now inform her of.
PHORMIO
Oh, were you the person?
945
DEMIPHO
Part of line 945b in the Latin.What a jest he’s making of us.
945
CHREMES
We’ll let you off.
CHREMES
What would you have? We’ll forgive you the money you’ve got,
