Perde 5
[Textpart 4]
Then, troth, do you caress me;
AGORASTOCLES
give me a kiss in place of a piece of meat; present your lips in place of a bone Your lips in place of a bone: The original of this line is somewhat indelicate, and the translation of it has been modified. She expected assistance from Agorastocles, who appears to her to be taking the part of her enemy.: that way I’ll render this dog more smooth for you than oil.
1235
HANNO
Come on, if you are coming.
ADELPHASIUM
What have we done to you?
HANNO
You are thieves, both of you.
ADELPHASIUM
What, we, as regards you?
AGORASTOCLES
And I know it.
ADELPHASIUM
What theft is this?
AGORASTOCLES
Enquire of him.
HANNO
Because for many years you have been concealing my daughters from me,
and, in fact, persons free-born, and free, and born of the highest rank.
1240
ADELPHASIUM
I’ faith, you’ll never find that villany to have been committed by us.
AGORASTOCLES
Make a bet of a kiss now, if you are not forsworn, which is to give it to the other.
ADELPHASIUM
I’ve nothing to do with you; prithee, get you gone.
AGORASTOCLES
But, i’ faith, I’ve got something to do with you; for he is my kinsman; it’s necessary for me to be his advocate.
And I’ll inform him how you are guilty of many a theft, and in what way you have got his daughters as slaves at your house, whom you know to be free women stolen from their native land.
1245
ADELPHASIUM
Where are these, or who are they, prithee?
AGORASTOCLES
They have been teased sufficiently.
HANNO
Why not speak out, then?
