Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
Do you deny that as well?
A COOK.
He didn’t say he hated you, but his wife.
765
DORIPPA
This is made clear, that you detest me.
LYSIMACHUS
But I deny it.
A COOK.
And he said that his wife was in the country.
LYSIMACHUS
This is she. Why are you annoying me?
A COOK.
Because you say that you don’t know me. Are you afraid of her?
LYSIMACHUS
I’m wise in being so; for she’s my only companion.
A COOK.
Do you wish to use my services?
LYSIMACHUS
Ask for it to-morrow; it shall be given you; for the present, be off.
770
(Aside.) Alas, wretch that I am!
770
I now find that that old saying is a true one, that some bad comes through a bad neighbour.
A COOK.
Why are we standing here?
LYSIMACHUS
Why don’t you be gone?Part of line 773 in the Latin.
A COOK.
If any inconvenience happens to you, that’s not my fault.
LYSIMACHUS
Why, you are utterly ruining wretched me
775
A COOK.
I understand now what you want. You mean, you wish me to go away from here.
775
LYSIMACHUS
I do wish it, I say.
