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[Textpart 8]
I am quite aware.
PHAEDRIA
Why, then, do I see you in this neighborhood?
THRASO
Depending on your kindness.
PHAEDRIA
Do you know what sort of dependence you have? Captain, I give you notice, if ever I catch you in this street again, even if you should say to me, I was looking for another person, I was on my road this way, you are undone.
GNATHO
Come, come, that’s not handsome.
PHAEDRIA
I’ve said it.
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GNATHO
I didn’t know you gave yourself such airs.
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PHAEDRIA
So it shall be.
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GNATHO
First hear a few words from me; and when I have said the thing, if you approve of it, do it.
GNATHO
Do you step a little that way, Thraso. (THRASO stands aside.) In the first place, I wish you both implicitly to believe me in this, that whatever I do in this matter, I do it entirely for my own sake;
but if the same thing is of advantage to yourselves, it would be folly for you not to do it.
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GNATHO
I’m of opinion that the Captain, your rival, should be received among you.
GNATHO
Only consider. I’faith, Phaedria, at the free rate you are living with her, and indeed very freely you are living, you have but little to give; and it’s necessary for Thais to receive a good deal.
That all this may be supplied for your amour and not at your own expense, there is not an individual better suited or more fitted for your purpose than the Captain. In the first place, he both.has got enough to give, and no one does give more profusely. He is a fool, a dolt, a blockhead; night and day he snores away; and you need not fear that the lady will fall in love with him; you may easily have him discarded whenever you please.
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CHAEREA
What shall we do?
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GNATHO
And this besides, which I deem to be of even greater importance,—not a single person entertains in better style or more bountifully.
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