Perde 4
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To talk with you, to embrace you, and to be intimate with you. For unless you bring her succour, she will soon be quite desponding in her mind. Come, my Achilles, let that be done which I entreat; save her, charmer, by your charming ways.
MILPHIDIPPA
Call forth your kind disposition, stormer of cities, slayer of kings.
1055
PYRGOPOLINICES
O! by my troth, ’tis a vexatious thing! (To PALAESTRIO.) How often, whip-scoundrel, have I forbidden you to make promises of my attention thus common.
PALAESTRIO
Do you hear that, hussy? I have told you already, and I now tell you again, unless a fee is given to this boar-pigBoar-pig: This passage is somewhat nodified in the translation., he cannot possibly throw away his attentions in any quarter.
MILPHIDIPPA
A fee shall be given, as large as he shall demand.
PALAESTRIO
He requires a talent of gold, in Philippean pieces. Less he will take from no one.
MILPHIDIPPA
O, by my troth, but that’s too little, surely.
PYRGOPOLINICES
By nature there’s no avarice in me; I have riches enough. I’ faith! I’ve more than a thousand measuresA thousand measures: The modius was a Roman measure one-third of the amphora. It contained nearly two English gallons. full of Philippean gold coins.
PALAESTRIO
Besides your treasures.
Then, of silver, he has mountains, not ingots; Aetna is not so high.
1065
MILPHIDIPPA
By the stars! O, what a lie!
PALAESTRIO
How rarely I am playing him off!
MILPHIDIPPA
And I; how do I do it? Ain’t I gulling him?
MILPHIDIPPA
But, prithee, do let me go now.
PALAESTRIO
But do you give her some answer, either that you will do it, or that you won’t do it.
Why cause this poor lady so much anguish of mind, who has never deserved any ill of you?
PYRGOPOLINICES
Bid her come to me herself. Tell her that I will do everything that she requires.
MILPHIDIPPA
You now act as it is proper for you to act. since you wish the same yourself that she is wishing.
1070
PALAESTRIO
No poor faculty of invention has she.
