Perde 4
[Textpart 1]
I am in health, since I see you in health.
PERIPHIANES
Give me your hand.
PHILIPPA
Take it—you hold by the hand a woman distrest and full of woes.
PERIPHIANES
What is it that disturbs your features?
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PHILIPPA
The daughter whom I had by you—
PHILIPPA
When I had brought her up, I lost her; she fell into the hands of the enemy.
PERIPHIANES
Keep your mind in quiet and at rest. Why look, she’s here at my house safe and sound. For immediately I heard from my servant that she was a captive, instantly I gave the money for her to be purchased;
he managed this affair as discreetly and frugally as in other matters he is egregiously—dishonest.
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PHILIPPA
Let me see her, whether it is she or no.
PERIPHIANES
Hallo there! you—Canthara, this instant bid my daughter Bid my daughter: Acropolistidem is here inserted in the editions evidently by mistake, and is purposely omitted in this Translation. It was probably inserted by some careless or injudicious transcriber in the middle ages, in the place of Telestidem, as Periphanes knows the girl in his house as Telestis, and fancies that she is his daughter. At the same time he knows that Acropolistis is the name of his son’s mistress, whom he has so recently tried unsuccessfully (as he supposes) to get into his power. come out before the house, that she may see her mother.
PHILIPPA
My spirits now at last return to me.
[Textpart 2]
Why is it, father, that you have called me out before the house?
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PERIPHIANES
That you may see and accost your mother, and wish her health on her arrival, and give her kisses.
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ACROPOLISTIS
What mother of mine?
PERIPHIANES
She who, half dead, is following your gaze.
PHILIPPA
Who is this that you are requesting to kiss me?
PERIPHIANES
Your own daughter.
