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[Textpart 4]
You know everything. But how do you know that this woman is my mistress?
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EUTYCHUS
You yourself told me yesterday.
CHARINUS
Isn’t it the fact that I had quite forgotten that I told you yesterday?
EUTYCHUS
It’s not surprising it is so.
CHARINUS
I now consult you. Answer me; by what death do you think that I should die in preference?
EUTYCHUS
Won’t you hold your peace? Take you care how you say that.
CHARINUS
What then do you wish me to say?
EUTYCHUS
Should you like me to trick your father nicely?
485
CHARINUS
I really should like it.
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EUTYCHUS
Should you like me to walk to the harbour—
CHARINUS
What, rather than that you should fly?
EUTYCHUS
And release the fair one for a sum.
CHARINUS
What, rather than you should pay her weight in gold?
EUTYCHUS
Whence is it to come?
CHARINUS
I’ll entreat Achilles to lend me the gold with which Hector was ransomed
EUTYCHUS
Are you in your senses?
CHARINUS
I’ faith, if I were in my senses, I shouldn’t be seeking you for my physician.
EUTYCHUS
Do you wish her to be purchased for as high a price as he asks?
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CHARINUS
Throw in something by way of surplus; even a thousand didrachms more than he shall demand.
490
EUTYCHUS
Now, do hold your peace. But what say you as to this? Whence will the money come, for you to give, when your father asks for it?
