Perde 4
[Textpart 6]
What!—I come home to her, when she is a married woman? Her husband is to be stood in fear of.
MILPHIDIPPA
Why,—for your sake, she has turned her husband out of her house.
PYRGOPOLINICES
How? How could she do so?
MILPHIDIPPA
The house was her marriage-portion.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Was it so?
MILPHIDIPPA
It was so, on my word.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Bid her go home; I’ll be there just now.
MILPHIDIPPA
Take care, and don’t keep her in expectation; don’t torment her feelings.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Not I, indeed. Do you go then.
1280
MILPHIDIPPA
We are going. (ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA go into the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.)
1280
PYRGOPOLINICES
But what do I see?
PALAESTRIO
What do you see?
PYRGOPOLINICES
See there, some one is coming, I know not who, but in a sailor’s dress.
PALAESTRIO
He is surely wanting us, now; really, it is the shipmaster.
PYRGOPOLINICES
He’s come, I suppose, to fetch her.
[Textpart 7]
Did I not know that another man in other ways
PLEUSICLES
has done many a thing unbecomingly on account of love, I should be more ashamed by reason of love for me to be going in this garb. But since I have learned that many persons by reason of love have committed many actions, disgraceful and estranged from what is good, for I pass by how Achilles sufferedAchilles suffered: This was when he withdrew from the warfare on being deprived of Briseis by Agamemnon, on which occasion Hector made great havoc among the Grecian forces. his comrades to be slain—
1285
But there’s Palaestrio, he’s standing with the Captain. My talk must now be changed for another kind. Woman is surely born of tardiness itself. For every other delay, which is a delay just as much, seems a less delay than that which is on account of a woman.
1290
I really think that this is done merely from habit. But I shall call for this Philocomasium. I’ll knock at the door then. Hallo! is there any one here?
1295
