Perde 4
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Upon my faith, if I ever hear you call me father, I’ll put an end to your life, you jade!
ACROPOLISTIS
I shan’t call you so.
When you want to be my father, then be so; when you don’t want, don’t be my father.
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PHILIPPA
What? Did you purchase her for that reason, because you supposed her to be your daughter? By what signs did you recognize her?
PHILIPPA
Why did you suppose her to be our daughter?
PERIPHIANES
My servant Epidicus told me so.
PHILIPPA
What if it had seemed to your servant otherwise? Prithee, could you not have known?
PERIPHIANES
How should I, who had never seen her after having once beheld her.
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PHILIPPA
Wretched creature, I’m quite undone!
PERIPHIANES
Don’t weep, madam; go in-doors; be of good courage; I’ll find her out.
PHILIPPA
An Attic citizen from Athens here purchased her Indeed, they said it was a young man who had bought her.
PERIPHIANES
I will find her; hold your peace. Only do go in-doors, and keep an eye upon this Circe Upon this Circe: He calls her a Circe, because she has laid a spell upon him, as it were by enchantments, for which Circe was famous. Perhaps, too, he calls her a daughter of the Sun, from his not knowing who her father really is, when he has so recently supposed himself to be so., this daughter of the Sun.
All business laid aside, I’ll give my attention to seeking for Epidicus. If I find him, I’ll make this day become the final one for him.
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