Perde 5
[Textpart 4]
I bring you word that you have got no mistress.
DEMIPHO
The Gods confound you. Why, prithee, what affair is this?
EUTYCHUS
I’ll tell you. Give your attention then, both of you.
LYSIMACHUS
Well then, we are giving you our attention, both of us.
EUTYCHUS
Those who are born of a good family, if they are of bad tendencies,
by their own faultiness withdraw nobleness from their rank, and disgrace their disposition.
970
DEMIPHO
He says what’s true.
LYSIMACHUS
Then it’s to yourself he says it.
EUTYCHUS
For this reason is this the more true; for at this time of life, it wasn’t just for you to take away from your son, a young man, his mistress, purchased with his own money.
DEMIPHO
How say you? Is she the mistress of Charinus?
EUTYCHUS
How the rogue does dissemble.
DEMIPHO
Why, he said that he had bought her as a maidservant for his mother.
975
EUTYCHUS
Was it for that reason, then, you bought her, you young lover, you old boy?
LYSIMACHUS
Very well said, i’ troth! Proceed, proceed. I’ll stand by him here on the other side. Let’s both load him well with such speeches as he’s worthy of.
EUTYCHUS
Who has done an injustice so great to his blameless son;
whom, in fact, upon my faith, I brought back home just when he was setting out in self-banishment; for he was going into exile.
980
DEMIPHO
Has he gone then?
LYSIMACHUS
What, do you speak, you hobgoblin? At this time of life you ought to abstain from those pursuits.
DEMIPHO
I confess it; undoubtedly I’ve acted wrong.
