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[Textpart 3]
If now I had no occasion for silence, now I shouldn’t tell you I shouldn’t tell you: This he says, in his confusion, by mistake for I should tell you..
LYSIMACHUS
Why, this same woman is —
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DORIPPA
Marry, come up! don’t you know who she is?
LYSIMACHUS
Why, yes, I do know. I’ve been chosen as an arbitrator with respect to her.
DORIPPA
An arbitrator? Now I know; you have invited her here to consult with you.
LYSIMACHUS
Why no; she has been given me as a deposit.
LYSIMACHUS
By my troth, it’s not anything of that sort.
DORIPPA
You are clearing yourself too soon Clearing yourself too soon: Numero. Rost thinks that this means you have quite, or satisfactorily cleared yourself; Dorippa, of course, saying so in an ironical manner. She seems, however, rather to allude to his defending himself before he is accused. Lysimachus pretends that some persons have disputed the possession of Pasicompsa, and that she has been left in his hands by mutual consent, till he has given his decision..
LYSIMACHUS
Too much of a business have I met with; really I’m stuck fast.
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[Textpart 4]
Make haste, get quickly on, for I’ve got to cook a dinner for an old gentleman in love. And, in fact, when I think of it again, it’s to be cooked for ourselves, not him for whom we’ve been hired: for a person that’s in love, if he has that with which he is in love, he esteems that as food,
A COOK.
to see her, embrace her, kiss her, chat with her; but we, I trust, shall return well laden home. Step this way. But see, here’s the old gentleman that hired us.
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LYSIMACHUS
Why, look! I’m undone! here’s the Cook.
