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[Textpart 3]
You yourself shall be surprised at me.
SYRUS
But how quickly the ladies have come up with us!
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CLITIPHO
Where are they? (SYRUS stands before him.) Why do you hold me back?
SYRUS
For the present she is nothing to you.
CLITIPHO
I know it, before my father; but now in the mean time—
SYRUS
Not a bit the more.
SYRUS
I will not let you, I tell you.
CLITIPHO
But only for a moment, pray.
CLITIPHO
Only to salute her.
SYRUS
If you are wise, get you gone.
SYRUS
He will stay here.
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CLITIPHO
O happy man!
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SYRUS
Take yourself off.
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[Textpart 4]
Upon my word, my dear Antiphila, I commend you, and think you fortunate in having made it your study that your manners should be conformable to those good looks of yours: and so may the Gods bless me, I do not at all wonder if every man is in love with you. For your discourse has been a proof to me what kind of disposition you possess.
BACCHIS
And when now I reflect in my mind upon your way of life, and that of all of you, in fact, who keep the public at a distance from yourselves, it is not surprising both that you are of that disposition, and that we are not; for it is your interest to be virtuous; those, with whom we are acquainted, will not allow us to be so. For our lovers, allured merely by our beauty, court us for that;
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when that has faded, they transfer their affections elsewhere; and unless we have made provision in the mean time for the future, we live in destitution. Now with you, when you have once resolved to pass your life with one man whose manners are especially kindred to your own, those personsA man whose manners—those persons: Cujus—hi; a change of number by the use of the figure Enallage. become attached to you. By this kindly feeling, you are truly devoted to each other;
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