Perde 4
[Textpart 2]
You ought to have put it in a cage.
HALISCA
I’ faith, the booty was no great one.
LAMPADISCUS
It’s a wonder, if a whole troop of slaves Troop of slaves: This is said in allusion to the runaway propensities of slaves. isn’t there in the casket.
PHANOSTRATA
Do let her speak.
LAMPADISCUS
If indeed she would speak.
PHANOSTRATA
Come say you, what was in it?
HALISCA
Trinkets only.
735
LAMPADISCUS
There’s a certain man, who declares that he knows where it is.
735
HALISCA
But, by my faith, he’ll confer an obligation on a certain woman if he’ll discover it.
LAMPADISCUS
But this certain man wishes a reward to be given to him.
HALISCA
But, by my faith, this certain woman, that has lost this casket, declares that she has nothing to give to this certain man.
LAMPADISCUS
But still this certain man looks for some money.
HALISCA
But still he looks for it in vain.
LAMPADISCUS
But, by my faith, good woman, in no matter does this certain man give his pains for nothing.
740
PHANOSTRATA
Lend me your conversation: it will now be for your own advantage. We confess that we have got the casket.
HALISCA
Then may Salvation preserve you; where is it now?
PHANOSTRATA
See, here it is, safe. But I wish to discourse with you upon a matter of importance to myself; I take you as a sharer with me in my own preservation.
HALISCA
What matter is this, or who are you?
745
PHANOSTRATA
I am the mother of her who had these things with her, when exposed.
745
HALISCA
Do you live here then?
