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MICIO
You are trifling!
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DEMEA
Aeschinus, if you are a man, he’ll do it.
935
AESCHINUS
My dear father—
MICIO
What, ass! do you attend to him?
DEMEA
’T is all in vain; it can not be otherwise.
AESCHINUS
Do let me prevail on you, my father.
MICIO
Are you out of your senses? Take yourself off.Take yourself off: Aeschinus, probably, in his earnestness, has seized hold of him with his hand, which Micio now pushes away.
DEMEA
Come, do oblige your son.
MICIO
Are you quite in your right mind? Am I, in my five-and-sixtieth year, to be marrying at last?
A decrepit old woman too? Do you advise me to do this?
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AESCHINUS
Do; I have promised it.I have promised it: This is not the truth; the notion has only been started since he last saw them.
MICIO
Promised, indeed; be generous at your own cost, young man.
DEMEA
Come, what if he should ask a still greater favor?
MICIO
As if this was not the greatest!
AESCHINUS
Don’t make any difficulty.
