Perde 5
[Textpart 5]
Come, Chremes, pray, don’t be so obdurate.
CHREMES
What am I to do here? I see I am not allowed to carry this through, as I had intended.
MENEDEMUS
You are acting as becomes you.
CHREMES
On this condition, then, I’ll do it; if he does
that which I think it right he should do.
1055
CLITIPHO
Father, I’ll do any thing; command me.
1055
CHREMES
You must take a wife.
CHREMES
I’ll hear nothing.
MENEDEMUS
I’ll take it upon myself; he shall do so.
CHREMES
I don’t hear any thing from him as yet.
SOSTRATA
Do you hesitate, Clitipho?
CHREMES
Nay, just as he likes.
MENEDEMUS
He’ll do it all.
SOSTRATA
This course, while you are making a beginning, is disagreeable, and while you are unacquainted with it. When you have become acquainted with it, it will become easy.
CLITIPHO
I’ll do it, father.
SOSTRATA
My son, upon my honor I’ll give you that charming girl, whom you may soon become attached to, the daughter of our neighbor Phanocrata.
1060
CLITIPHO
What! that red-haired girl, with cat’s eyes, freckled face,Freckled face: Many take sparso ore here to mean wide-mouthed. Lemonnier thinks that must be the meaning, as he has analyzed the other features of her countenance. There is, however, no reason why he should not speak of her complexion; and it seems, not improbably, to have the same meaning as the phrase os lentiginosum, a freckled face. and hooked nose? I can not, father.
CHREMES
Heyday! how nice he is! You would fancy he had set his mind upon it.
