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[Textpart 4]
Do you mean with regard to this
PYTHIAS
Yes; whether I ought to mention it or be silent?
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DORIAS
Upon my word, if you are prudent,This text appears at the end of line 720b in the Latin. you won’t know what you do know, either about the Eunuch or the girl’s misfortune. By this method you’ll both rid yourself of all perplexity, and have done a service to her.Have done a service to her: Though some would have illi here to refer to the damsel, and others again to Phaedria, it is pretty clear that Madame Dacier is right in suggesting that Thais is the person meant. Say this only, that Dorus has run away.
DORIAS
But don’t I see Chremes? Thais will be here just now.
DORIAS
Because when I came away from there, a quarrel had just commenced between them.
PYTHIAS
Take in these golden trinkets; I shall learn from him what’s the matter.
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[Textpart 5]
Heyday! upon my faith, I’ve been bamboozled: the wine that I’ve drunk has got the upper hand. But, so long as I was reclining, how extremely sober I did seem to myself to be; when I got up, neither feet nor senses were quite equal to their duty.
CHREMES
Who’s that? What, Pythias; dear me, how much more charming you now
seem to me than a short time since!
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PYTHIAS
Troth now, you are much more merry, that’s certain.
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CHREMES
Upon my faith, it is a true saying, that Venus grows cold without Ceres and Bacchus. But has Thais got here long before me?
PYTHIAS
Has she already come away from the Captain’s?
CHREMES
A long time ago; an age since. There has been a most violent quarrel between them.
PYTHIAS
Did she say nothing about you following her?
CHREMES
Nothing at all; only, on going away, she gave me a nod.
PYTHIAS
Well now, wasn’t that enough?
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