Perde 5
[Textpart 8]
Take care how you believe that fellow in any thing.
PHORMIO
Go, touch him; if he isn’t in a cold sweat all over, why then kill me.
CHREMES
’Tis nothing at all.
995
NAUSISTRATA
What is it, then, that this person is talking about?
995
PHORMIO
You shall know directly; listen now.
995
CHREMES
Are you resolved to believe him?
NAUSISTRATA
Pray, how can I believe him, when he has told me nothing?
PHORMIO
The poor creature is distracted from fright.
NAUSISTRATA
It isn’t for nothing, i’ faith, that you are in such a fright.
CHREMES
What, I in a fright?
PHORMIO
All right, of course: since you are not in a fright at all,
and this is nothing at all that I’m going to tell, do you relate it.
1000
DEMIPHO
Villain, is he to relate it at your request?
1000
PHORMIO
Come now, you’ve managed nicely for your brother.
NAUSISTRATA
My husband, will you not tell me?
CHREMES
There’s no need to tell you.
PHORMIO
Not for you, indeed; but there’s need for her to know it. At Lemnos—
CHREMES
Ha! what are you doing?
