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Why, what’s the matter?
DEMEA
I’m bringing you some new and great enormities of that hopeful youth.
DEMEA
Fresh ones, of blackest dye.
MICIO
There now—at it again.
DEMEA
Ah, Micio! you little know what sort of person he is.
DEMEA
O simpleton! you are dreaming that I’m talking about the Music-girl; this crime is against a virgin and a citizen.
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DEMEA
So then, you know it, and put up with it!
MICIO
Why not put up with it?
DEMEA
Tell me, pray, don’t you exclaim about it? Don’t you go distracted?
MICIO
Not I: certainly I had ratherCertainly I had rather: He pauses after quidem, but he means to say that if he had his choice, he would rather it had not been so.—
DEMEA
There has been a child born.
MICIO
May the Gods be propitious to it.
DEMEA
The girl has no fortune.
MICIO
So I have heard.
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DEMEA
And he—must he marry her without one?
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DEMEA
What is to be done then?
