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PAEGNIUM
But I’m in a hurry.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
And, i’ faith, I as well.
PAEGNIUM
Have you got anything?
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SOPHOCLIDISCA
Have you anything?
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PAEGNIUM
Really nothing whatever.
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SOPHOCLIDISCA
Show me your hand then.
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PAEGNIUM
Is this the hand?
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SOPHOCLIDISCA
Where is that other, the pilfering left hand?
PAEGNIUM
Why, it is at home, d’ye see; I’ve not brought one hither.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
You’ve got something, what it is I know not.
PAEGNIUM
Don’t be mauling me about you she-groper.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
But suppose I’m in love with you.
PAEGNIUM
You employ your pains to no purpose.
PAEGNIUM
Why, because you are in love with nothing at all, when you are in love with one who doesn’t return it.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
It befits these youthful looks and age to be on the watch for pleasure in good time;
so that, when your hair comes to change its hue, you may not be always in a grovelling servitude. Why, really, as yet you are not eighty pounds in weight.
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PAEGNIUM
Still, that warfare is waged much more successfully by spirit than by weight. But I’m losing my pains.
