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Out with you, you are joking me, I do believe; he doesn’t deny it.
1080
TRANIO
I am sure now that you are joking; for surely he doesn’t deny it.
THEUROPIDES
Nay but, upon my faith, he really does deny it; or that he has sold this house to Philolaches.
TRANIO
Well now, pray, has he denied that the money was paid him?
THEUROPIDES
Nay more, he offered to take an oath to me, if I desired it,
that he had neither sold this house, nor had any money him paid been.
1085
I told him the same that you told me.
THEUROPIDES
He offered to give up all his servants for examination.
TRANIO
Nonsense! On my faith, he never will give them up.
THEUROPIDES
He really does offer them.
TRANIO
Why then, do you summon him to trial.
I’ll make trial as I fancy. I’m determined on it.
1090
TRANIO
Bring the fellow here to me.
1090
THEUROPIDES
What then, if I go fetch some men?
TRANIO
It ought to have been done already;
or else bid the young man to demand possession of the house.
THEUROPIDES
Why no, I want to do this first—to put the servants under examination Servants under examination: Quaestioni. Examination by torture; which was the method used by the Romans for extracting confessions from slaves..
