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You act in a friendly way,
SIMO
in speaking well of me.
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TRANIO
It certainly is your due.
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SIMO
But, i’ faith, in you I don’t hold a good servant by the hand.
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THEUROPIDES
Hark you! you whip-knave, come back to me.
TRANIO
I’ll be there just now.
SIMO
Well now, how soon—?
SIMO
The usual goings-on.
TRANIO
Tell me then, these usual goings-on, what are they?
SIMO
The way that you yourselves proceed. But, Tranio, to say the truth, according as men are, it so befits you to humour them;
reflecting, at the same time, how short life is.
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TRANIO
What of all this? Dear me, at last, after some difficulty, I perceive that you are talking about these goings-on of ours.
SIMO
I’ faith, you people are living a merry life, just as befits you:
on wine, good cheer, nice dainty fish, you enjoy life.
TRANIO
Why yes, so it was in time past, indeed; but now these things have come to an end all at once.
TRANIO
So utterly, Simo, are we all undone!
SIMO
Won’t you hold your tongue? Everything has gone on prosperously with you hitherto.
TRANIO
I don’t deny that it has been as you say; undoubtedly, we have lived heartily, just as we pleased; but, Simo, in such a way has the breeze now forsaken our ship—
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