Perde 3
[Textpart 6]
Can you only find me the man, and then be easy as to the rest? If I don’t make a fool of the fellow, do you lay all the blame on me.
PALAESTRIO
Well, go you in then; apply yourselves to this business with all your skill.
ACROTELEUTIUM
Trust me for thatTrust me for that: Alia cura; literally, take care of something else; meaning, trust us in the present instance, or, as Thornton expresses it, never fear us..
PALAESTRIO
Come, Periplecomenus, do you conduct them at once in-doors. I’m off to the Forum; I’ll meet him, and give him this ring, and will tell him that it has been delivered to me from your wife, and that she is dying for him. As soon as we shall have come from the Forum, do you send her (points to MILPHIDIPPA) to our house as though she were privately sent to him.
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PERIPLECOMENUS
We’ll do so; trust us for that.
PALAESTRIO
Do you only attend to the business; I’ll now polish him off with a pretty burden on his back.
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PERIPLECOMENUS
Go, with good luck to you, manage the matter cleverly. (To ACROTELEUTIUM.) But now, if I shall manage this adroitly, that my guest can this day gain the mistress of the Captain, and carry her off hence to Athens; if, I say, this day we shall succeed in this plan,
what shall I give you for a present?
ACROTELEUTIUM
If now the lady seconds our efforts on her part,
I think it will be right cleverly and adroitly managed.
When a comparison shall be made of our artifices, I have no fear that I shall not prove superior in the cleverness of my contrivances.
PERIPLECOMENUS
Let’s go in-doors, then, that we may deeply weigh these plans,
that carefully and cautiously we may carry out what is to be done, so that, when the Captain comes, there may be no tripping.
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ACROTELEUTIUM
You are delaying us with your talk.
