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Stand still; I’ll not let you go from here.
THESPRIO
Why do you hold me back?
EPIDICUS
Is he in love with her whom he has purchased out of the spoil?
He dotes to death upon her.
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EPIDICUS
The hide will be stripped from off my back.
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THESPRIO
He loves her, too, more than ever he loved you.
EPIDICUS
May Jupiter confound you!
THESPRIO
Let me go now; for he has forbidden me to go to our house; he ordered me to come here (pointing to the house) to our neighbour’s, Chaeribulus; there he bade me wait; he’s about to come there himself.
because he doesn’t wish to meet with or see his father, before he has paid down this money which is owing for her.
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EPIDICUS
O dear! an involved business, i’ faith.
THESPRIO
Do let go of me, that I may now be off forthwith.
EPIDICUS
When the old gentleman knows this, our ship will fairly founder.
THESPRIO
What matters it to me in what way you come to your end?
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EPIDICUS
Because I don’t wish to perish alone; I’d like you to perish with me, well-wisher with well-wisher.
THESPRIO
Away with you from me to utter and extreme perdition with those terms of yours!
EPIDICUS
Be off, then, if you are in great haste about anything.
THESPRIO
I never met with any person from whom I parted with greater pleasure.
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