Perde 4
[Textpart 3]
You are drunk.
PYTHIAS
I wish that they were so, who wish ill to me.
DORIAS
Oh, prithee, my dear Pythias, what a monstrous thing this is!
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PHAEDRIA
You are out of your senses. How could a Eunuch possibly do this?
PYTHIAS
I know nothing about him: as to what he has done, the thing speaks for itself. The girl is in tears; and when you ask her what’s the matter, she does not dare tell. But he, a precious fellow, is nowhere to be seen. To my sorrow I suspect too,
that when he took himself off he carried something away from the house.
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PHAEDRIA
I can not enough wonder, whither this varlet can possibly have betaken himself to any distance from here; unless perhaps he has returned home to our house.
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PYTHIAS
Pray, go and see whether he is there.
PHAEDRIA
I’ll let you know immediately.
DORIAS
Ruined outright! Prithee, my dear, I never did so much as hear of a deed so abominable!
PYTHIAS
Why, faith, I had heard that they were extremely fond of the women,
but were incapable; unfortunately what has happened never came into my mind; otherwise I should have shut him up somewhere, and not have intrusted the girl to him.
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[Textpart 4]
Come out, you villain! What, do you lag behind, you runaway? Out with you, you sorry bargain!
DORUS
Mercy, I do entreat you!
PHAEDRIA
Oh, do look at that! How the villain distorts his face.
What means your coming back hither? Why this change of dress? What have you to say? If I had delayed a moment, Pythias, I shouldn’t have found him at home: he had just prepared, in this fashion, for flight.
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PYTHIAS
Have you caught the fellow, pray?
PHAEDRIA
Caught him, why not?
DORIAS
Upon my faith that really is capital!
