Perde 3
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I’ll have you well drenched this day, if I live, you who have determined to drink water.
EUCLIO
I know what plan he’s upon;
he’s aiming at this method, to overcome me with wine, and after that, to change the settlementChange the settlement: Commutet coloniam. Literally may change its colony. of what I possess: I’ll take care of that, for I’ll hide it somewhere out of doors. I’ll make him lose his wine and his trouble together.
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MEGADORUS
Unless you want me for anything, I’m going to bathe, that I may sacrifice.
EUCLIO
By my faith, you pot (taking it from under his cloak), you surely have many enemies, and that gold as well which is entrusted to you! Now this is the best thing to be done by me, to take you away, my pot, to the Temple of FaithTemple of Faith: Fides, Faith, was a Goddess worshipped by the Romans. Probably, in the present instance, her Temple was represented at one side of the stage, and the door just beyond the side-scene., where I’ll hide you carefully. Faith, thou dost know me, and I thee; please, do have a care
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not to change thy name against me, if I entrust this to thee. Faith, I’ll come to thee, relying on thy fidelity.
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