Perde 3
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I could very well put up with a pelting with money.
THEUROPIDES
What money’s this?
TRANIO
Philolaches owes this person a little.
TRANIO
About forty minae.
A BANKER
Really, don’t think much of that;
TRANIO
Don’t you hear him? Troth now, prithee, doesn’t he seem just suited to be a Banker—a generation that’s most roguish?
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THEUROPIDES
I don’t care, just now, for that, who he is or whence he is;
this I want to be told me, this I very much wish to know—
I heard from him that there was interest owing on the money as well.
TRANIO
Forty-four minae are due to him.
630
Say that you’ll pay it, that he may be off.
THEUROPIDES
I, say that I’ll pay it?
TRANIO
You yourself. Do only say so. Do be guided by me. Do promise. Come now, I say; I beg of you.
THEUROPIDES
Answer me; what has been done with this money?
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THEUROPIDES
Pay it yourselves then, if it’s safe,
