Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
You haven’t it among your under-clothing?
STROBILUS
Search where you please.
EUCLIO
Pshaw! how civilly the rascal speaks, that I mayn’t suppose he has taken it away! I know your tricks. Come, show me here again that right hand.
STROBILUS
Here it is.
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EUCLIO
Now show me your left.
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STROBILUS
Well, then, I show you both, in fact.
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EUCLIO
Now I leave off searching. Give back that here.
STROBILUS
Give back what?
EUCLIO
Are you trifling with me? You certainly have got it.
STROBILUS
I, got it? Got what?
EUCLIO
I shan’t say; you want to hear. Whatever you have of mine, give it back.
STROBILUS
You are mad; you’ve searched me all over at your own pleasure, and yet you’ve found nothing of yours in my possession.
EUCLIO
Stop, stop; who was that? Who was the otherWho was the other: This suspicion in Euclio is very natural; and he asks the question very artfully, for the purpose of catching a confession from him by inadvertence. that was within here, together with yourself? Troth, I’m undone; he’s now rummaging about within. If I let this one go, he’ll escape. At last, I’ve now searched this one all over; he has got nothing. Be off where you please;
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Jupiter and the Gods confound you!
STROBILUS
He returns his thanks not amissThanks not amiss: He says this sarcastically. If he gets such thanks when he has not stolen the treasure, what would he have got supposing that he had?.
EUCLIO
I’ll go in here now, and I’ll at once throttle this accomplice of yours. Will you not fly hence from my sight? Will you away from here, or no?
EUCLIO
Take you care, please, how I see you.
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[Textpart 5]
I would rather that I were dead outright, by a shocking death, than not lay an ambush this day for that old fellow. But he’ll not venture now to hide his gold here; he’ll now be carrying it with him, I guess, and be changing the spot.
STROBILUS
But hark! there’s a noise at the door. (Looking in the direction of the Temple.) See, the old fellow’s bringing out the gold with him! Meanwhile, I’ll step aside here to the door.
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