Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
May the Gods grant better things.
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DEMIPHO
As for the Gods, it’s they that do this.
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LYSIMACHUS
What’s the matter?
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DEMIPHO
I’d tell you, if I saw that you had time or leisure.
LYSIMACHUS
Although I have business in hand, if you wish for anything, Demipho, I’m never too busy to give attention to a friend.
DEMIPHO
You speak of your kindness to myself who have experienced it. How do I seem to you as to age?
LYSIMACHUS
A subject for Acheron—an antiquated, decrepit old fellow.
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DEMIPHO
You see in a wrong light. I am a child, Lysimachus, of seven years old.
LYSIMACHUS
Are you in your senses, to say that you are a child?
DEMIPHO
I’m telling what’s true.
LYSIMACHUS
I’ faith, it has this moment come into my mind what you mean to say;
directly a person is old, no longer has he sense or taste; people say that he has become a child again.
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DEMIPHO
Why, no; for I’m twice as hearty as ever I was before.
LYSIMACHUS
I’ faith, it’s well that so it is, and I’m glad of it.
DEMIPHO
Aye, and if you did but know; with my eyes, too, I see even better now than I did formerly.
LYSIMACHUS
That’s good.
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DEMIPHO
Of a thing that’s bad, I’m speaking.
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LYSIMACHUS
Then that same is not good.
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DEMIPHO
But, if I wished at all, could I venture to disclose something to you?
