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[Textpart 5]
Whither are you going? Stay, stay, I tell you; whither are you going?
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PHIDIPPUS
What obstinacy is this?
LACHES
Did I not tell you, Phidippus, that he would take this matter amiss? It was for that reason I entreated you to send your daughter back.
PHIDIPPUS
Upon my faith, I did not believe he would be so brutish;
does he now fancy that I shall come begging to him? If so it is that he chooses to take back his wife, why, let him; if he is of another mind, let him pay back her portion,Pay back her portion: As was universally done on a separation by agreement. and take himself off.
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LACHES
Just look at that, now; you too are getting obstinate and huffish.
PHIDIPPUS
You have returned to us in a very ungovernable mood, Pamphilus.
LACHES
This anger will depart; although he has some reason for being vexed.
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PHIDIPPUS
Because you have had a windfall, a little money, your minds are elevated.
LACHES
Are you going to fall out with me, too?
PHIDIPPUS
Let him consider, and bring me word to-day, whether he will or will not, that she may belong to another if she does not to him. (Goes hastily into his own house.)
LACHES
Phidippus, stay; listen to a few words—He’s off; what matters it to me? In fine, let them manage it between themselves, just as they please; since neither my son nor he pay any regard to me; they care but little for what I say. I’ll carry the quarrel to my wife, by whose planning all these things have been brought about,
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and against her I will vent all the vexation that I feel.
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