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Tell me, please, what you think of it.
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CHREMES
Extremely good, I declare.
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SYRUS
Why yes, pretty fair. But listen, what a piece of policy still remains. He is then to say that he has seen your daughter—that her beauty charmed him as soon as he beheld her; and that he desires her for a wife.
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CHREMES
What, her that has just been discovered ?
and, in fact, he’ll request that she may be asked for.
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CHREMES
For what purpose, Syrus? For I don’t altogether comprehend it.
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SYRUS
O dear, you are so dull.
SYRUS
Money will be given him for the wedding—with which golden trinkets and clothes—do you understand me?
CHREMES
But I neither give nor betroth my daughter to him.
CHREMES
Why, do you ask me? To a fellow—
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SYRUS
Just as you please. I don’t mean that in reality you should give her to him, but that you should pretend it.
CHREMES
Pretending is not in my way; do you mix up these plots of yours, so as not to mix me up in them. Do you think that I’ll betroth my daughter to a person to whom I will not marry her?
SYRUS
It might have been cleverly managed; and I under-took this affair for the very reason, that a short time since you so urgently requested it.
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