Perde 3
[Textpart 2]
How polite! What a beginning he has made on meeting her!
THAIS
Very much, as you deserve.
GNATHO
Let’s go to dinner then. (To THRASO.) What do you stand here for?
PARMENO
Then there’s the other one: you would declare that he was born for his belly’s sake.
THRASO
When you please; I sha’n’t delay.
PARMENO
I’ll accost them, and pretend as though I had just come out. (He comes forward.) Are you going any where, Thais?
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THAIS
Ha! Parmeno; well done; just going out for the day.
THAIS
Why! don’t you see him?
PARMENO
I see him, and I’m sorry for it. (Aloud.) Phaedria’s presents are ready for you when you please.
THRASO
Why are we to stand here? Why don’t we be off?
PARMENO
Troth now, pray, do let us, with your leave, present to her the things we intend, and accost and speak to her.
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THRASO
Very fine presents, I suppose, or at least equal to mine.
PARMENO
The fact will prove itself. (Goes to the door of LACHES’ house and calls.) Ho there! bid those people come out of doors at once, as I ordered.
Do you step forward this way.This sentence appears in the second part of line 469 in the Latin. (To THAIS.) She comes all the way from Aethiopia.
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THRASO
Here are some three minae in value.
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PARMENO
Where are you, Dorus? Step this way. (Enter CHAEREA from the house, dressed like the EUNUCH.) There’s a Eunuch for you—of what a genteel appearance! of what a prime age!
THAIS
God bless me, he’s handsome.
PARMENO
What say you, Gnatho? Do you see any thing to find fault with? And what say you, Thraso?
