Perde 4
[Textpart 8]
And health to you.
1315
PLEUSICLES
Your mother and sister bade me give their love to you.
1315
PHILOCOMASIUM
Heaven prosper them.
PLEUSICLES
They beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother’s eyes had been well, she would have comeShe would have come: Thornton justly observes that this excuse for the pretended mother not making her appearance is fair enough, but there is no reason alleged why the sister should not come, except that we may suppose that she stays to nurse and comfort her sick parent. together with me.
PHILOCOMASIUM
I’ll go; although I do it with regret—duty compels me.
PLEUSICLES
You act wisely.
PYRGOPOLINICES
If she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead.
1320
PHILOCOMASIUM
I am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Don’t weep.
PHILOCOMASIUM
I can’t help it when I look upon you.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Be of good courage.
1325
PHILOCOMASIUM
I know what pain it is to me.
1325
PALAESTRIO
I really don’t wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant—as I look at him, weep because we are parting (pretends to cry), so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.
PHILOCOMASIUM
Prithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?
PYRGOPOLINICES
By all means
PHILOCOMASIUM
O my eyes! O my life!
1330
PALAESTRIO
Do hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall.
1330
PYRGOPOLINICES
What means this?
PALAESTRIO
Because, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Run in and fetch some water.
