Perde 3
[Textpart 3]
You have obtained it.
ARGYRIPPUS
Do you really say so?
LEONIDA
I do say so for certain.
LIBANUS
Come to me, in my turn, and make trial: wish ardently for that which you especially desire to happen to you; it shall be done.
ARGYRIPPUS
What other thing could I ardently wish for rather than that of which I am in want?
Oblige me with twenty silver minae to give to her mother.
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LIBANUS
They shall be given: take care and be of good courage, your wishes shall be fulfilled.
ARGYRIPPUS
Just as they are wont, Salvation and Fortune are deceiving mortals.
LEONIDA
I this day have been the head in finding this money for you.
LIBANUS
I have been the foot.
ARGYRIPPUS
Why, neither head nor foot of your talking is visible;
I can understand neither what you mean, nor why you are trifling with me.
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LIBANUS
I think that now you’ve been teased enough; now let’s disclose the matter as it really stands. Give your attention, Argyrippus, if you please. Your father has ordered us to bring this money to you.
ARGYRIPPUS
How very à propos and opportunely you have brought it.
LIBANUS
Here, in this, there will be twenty good minae, obtained by bad means:
these, on certain conditions, he bade us give you.
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ARGYRIPPUS
Prithee, what are they?
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LIBANUS
That you would grant him her favours and an entertainment.
ARGYRIPPUS
Bid him come, I beg. For him who deserves it right well, we’ll do what he wishes, him who has brought these scattered loves of ours to a happy result.
LEONIDA
You’ll permit your father then, Argyrippus, to caress her?
