Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
Now I’m afraid she’ll be tripping.
DAUGHTER
My name was Lucris Was Lucris: He is enchanted with her name of Lucris, because it so closely resembles lucrum, profit or gain. in my own country.
TOXILUS
The name and the omen are worth any price. Why don’t you make purchase of her? (Aside.) I was greatly afraid that she would be tripping. She has got herself free.
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DORDALUS
If I make purchase of you, I trust that you’ll prove Lucris to myself as well.
TOXILUS
If you do make purchase of her, never, on my word, do I think that she’ll remain your slave throughout the month.
DORDALUS
And so indeed I’d hope, i’ faith.
TOXILUS
That what you wish may come to pass, employ your own energies.
(Aside.) In nothing even as yet has she made a slip.
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DORDALUS
Where were you born?
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DAUGHTER
According to what my mother told me,in the kitchen In the kitchen: This is the first of her evasions of a direct answer to Dordalus. The cleverness of all of them is admirable, and shows a wish, if possible, to save her conscience in the awkward position in which she has been placed by the gluttony of her father., in a corner on the left hand.
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TOXILUS
This woman will prove a lucky Courtesan for you; she has been born in a warm spot, where full oft there is an abundance of all good things. (Aside.) The Procurer was taken in when he asked where she was born.
She has played him off nicely.
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DORDALUS
But I ask of you, what is your country?
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DAUGHTER
What should be mine but that where I now am?
DORDALUS
But this I’m asking, what was?
DAUGHTER
Everything that was, do I consider as nothing, since it was, and is not now. Just like a man when he has breathed forth his spirit; why enquire of him who he was?
TOXILUS
So may the Deities kindly favour me, right cleverly. And yet I really do pity her.
DORDALUS
But still, young woman, come, tell me at once which is your country? Why are you silent?
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DAUGHTER
For my part, I really am telling you my country. Since I’m in servitude here, this is my country.
TOXILUS
Do cease now making enquiries about that. Don’t you see that she’s unwilling to declare, lest you should recall to her the remembrance of her misfortunes?
