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What fellow is that?
PHRONESIUM
One that, upon my honor, I love far more than yourself.
STRATOPHANES
Than myself? In what way?
PHRONESIUM
Why, this way, that you are not to be troublesome to me. (Moves as if going.)
STRATOPHANES
Are you going now, after you’ve got the gold?
PHRONESIUM
What you’ve given me, I’ve put away in-doors.
920
STRABAX
Come here, sweetheart; I’ve got something to say to you.
920
PHRONESIUM
Why, I was just coming to you.
STRABAX
To me, my charmer?Appears to be part of 921 in the Latin.
PHRONESIUM
In serious truth, i’ faith.
STRABAX
Although I seem a simpleton to you, I like myself to have a bit of recreation. For pretty though you are, you are so to your own loss, unless I amuse myself a bit with you.
PHRONESIUM
Should you like me to embrace you and give you a kiss?
STRABAX
Do whatever you like, I’ll deem it agreable.
STRATOPHANES
What, shall I suffer her to be embracing other men before my eyes? I’ faith, ’twere better that I were dead. Woman, take your hands off of him, unless, perhaps, by this sword of mine, won from the enemy, you wish yourself and him to die.
925
PHRONESIUM
There’s no use in badinageNo use in badinage: φλυαρεῖν, to trifle, to play upon; almost exactly corresponding with our use of the French term badinage., Captain. If you want yourself to be loved, with gold, Stratophanes, not with iron, may you prevent him from loving me.
STRATOPHANES
How, the plague, are you pretty or witty, to be fond of a fellow of that description?
930
PHRONESIUM
Don’t it come to your recollection what an actor once said upon the stage? All people have an eye to their profit, and are not over delicate.
STRATOPHANES
That you could possibly caress this fellow, so dirty and foul!
PHRONESIUM
Although he is dirty, although he is foul, still, he’s pretty to me.
STRATOPHANES
Didn’t I give you some gold?
935
