Perde 3
[Textpart 4]
I have none to be desponding in.
CHARINUS
Tell on, then, the rest of your bad news; for whom has she been purchased?
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EUTYCHUS
I don’t know. She had been already knocked down to the bidder and taken off by him, when I got to the harbour.
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CHARINUS
Ah me! Already, indeed, have you heaped burning mountains of woe upon me. Proceed, executioner, torment me on, since you have once begun.
EUTYCHUS
This is not more a cause of anguish to yourself, than it has proved to me this day.
CHARINUS
Tell me, who bought her?
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EUTYCHUS
I’ faith, I do not know.
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CHARINUS
Well, is this a good friend giving one his aid?
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EUTYCHUS
What would you have me do?
CHARINUS
The same that you see me doing, die with grief. But did you make enquiry, what was the appearance of the person that had bought her? Perhaps the damsel might have been traced out by that means.
EUTYCHUS
Ah! wretch that I am—
CHARINUS
Do cease lamenting; attend to that which you are now about.
EUTYCHUS
What have I done?
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CHARINUS
Proved the destruction of myself, and with myself of your own word.
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EUTYCHUS
The Gods know that that is not any fault of mine.
CHARINUS
A fine thing, indeed! You mention the Gods, who are absent, as witnesses; how am I to believe you in that?
EUTYCHUS
Why, it rests with your own self what to believe; with myself, what to say, that rests with me.
CHARINUS
On that point you are ready, so as to give answer like for like;
but as to what you are requested, you are lame, blind, dumb, defective, and weak. You promised that you would trick my father; I myself supposed that I was entrusting the matter to a skilful person, and I entrusted it to an utter stone.
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EUTYCHUS
What could I do?
