Perde 3
[Textpart 5]
Does that bear reference to yourself in any way?
PARDALISCA
What business have you with her?
STALINO
I made a mistake; him, the bailiff, I meant to say.
PARDALISCA
It’s on purposeIt’s on purpose: She hints by this that she well knows what his thoughts are, and that really it is no mistake on his part; but that he is designedly deviating from the open path of rectitude, and turning aside into the bye-paths of lust and duplicity. that you are turning aside from the high road into bye-paths.
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STALINO
Does she threaten anything against myself?
PARDALISCA
She is hostile to you individually more than any person.
PARDALISCA
Because you have given her as a wife to Olympio; she says that she’ll neither suffer your life, nor her own, nor that of her husband,
to be prolonged until the morrow. I have been sent hither to tell you this, that you might beware of her.
STALINO
By my troth, to my misery I’m quite undone!
There neither is nor ever was any old man in love so wretched as I.
PARDALISCA
Don’t I play him off cleverly? For everything that I’ve been telling him as taking place, I’ve been telling him falsely. My mistress and she who lives next door have concocted this scheme. I’ve been sent to fool him.
STALINO
Hark you, Pardalisca!
STALINO
There is something that I want to enquire of you about.
PARDALISCA
You are causing me delay.
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STALINO
Why, you are causing me sorrow. But has Casina got that sword even still?
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