Perde 5
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To go along with you.
CHARINUS
Look for another companion; these companions that have possession of me, will not part with me.
CHARINUS
Care, misery, sickness, tears, and lamentation.
870
EUTYCHUS
Drive away those companions, and look this way and return.
CHARINUS
If indeed you wish to speak to me, do you follow.
EUTYCHUS
Stop, this instant!
CHARINUS
You do amiss, in delaying me as I haste; the sun is setting.
EUTYCHUS
If you would make haste in this direction, just as you are hastening in that one, you’d be doing more rightly;
this way there is now a prospering gale, only tack about. Here is a fair Westerly breeze; there is a showery Southern blast. The one causes a calm; the other stirs up all the waves. Betake yourself towards the land, Charinus, in this direction. Don’t you see right opposite? Black clouds and showers are coming on. Look now to the left,
875
how full the heaven is of brightness. Don’t you see right opposite?
880
CHARINUS
He has thrown religious scruples Thrown religious scruples: He considers the remark made by Eutychus as ominous, which it would be impious for him to disregard. in my way; I’ll betake myself in that direction.
EUTYCHUS
You are wise. O Charinus, turn your steps, and turn your feet as well, in the opposite direction.
Extend your arm. Catch hold of me. Do you hold me new?
CHARINUS
I’m holding you.
Whither now were you going?
CHARINUS
Into banishment.
EUTYCHUS
What to do there?
CHARINUS
As a wretched person would.
