Perde 4
[Textpart 1]
That health I accept for me and mine.
PERIPHIANES
What besides?
PHILIPPA
Health to yourself; what you lent me, I return.
PERIPHIANES
I don’t impeach your punctuality.
PHILIPPA
If I know you, I’ll move your feelings, so that you shall know me.
550
PERIPHIANES
Where have I been in the habit of seeing you?
PHILIPPA
You are unfairly hard upon me.
PHILIPPA
Because you think it right that I should be the prompter of your memory.
PERIPHIANES
You speak to the purpose.
PHILIPPA
You say what’s strange to me, Periphanes.
PERIPHIANES
Ah now! that’s better.
Do you remember, Philippa—
PHILIPPA
Yes, I remember that.
PERIPHIANES
At Epidaurus—
PHILIPPA
Ah! you have moistened my burning breast with a little drop of comfort.
PERIPHIANES
How I relieved the poverty of you, a poor young maiden, and your mother?
555
PHILIPPA
What, are you he who for your own gratification brought heavy troubles upon me?
PERIPHIANES
I am he. Health to you.
