Perde 2
[Textpart 10]
To whom but to yourself?
425
PHILOCOMASIUM
What person are you? Or what business have you with me?
425
SCELEDRUS
O, you ask me who I am, do you?
PHILOCOMASIUM
Why shouldn’t I ask that which I don’t know?
PALAESTRIO
Who am I, then, if you don’t know him?
PHILOCOMASIUM
You are an annoyance to me, whoever you are, both you and he.
SCELEDRUS
What? don’t you know us?
PHILOCOMASIUM
No, neither of you.
SCELEDRUS
I very much fear—
PALAESTRIO
What do you fear?
SCELEDRUS
Why, that we have lost ourselves somewhere or other; for she says that she knows neither you nor me.
PALAESTRIO
I wish, Sceledrus, to examine into this, whether we are ourselves, or else some other persons; lest secretly somehow some one of our neighbours may have transformed us without our knowing it.
430
SCELEDRUS
For my part, beyond a doubt, I am my own self.
PALAESTRIO
I’ faith, and so am I.
SCELEDRUS
My lady, you are seeking your destruction.Part of line 433b in Latin. To you I am speaking; hark you, Philocomasium!
PHILOCOMASIUM
What craziness possesses you,
to be calling me wrongly by a crackjaw nameCrackjaw name: Perplexo nomine. The Commentators seem to think that this means no more than by my wrong name. The word perplexo seems, however, to refer to the extreme length of the name, as well as the fact that it does not belong to her.?
435
SCELEDRUS
How now! What are you called, then?
435
PHILOCOMASIUM
My name is Glycera.
SCELEDRUS
For a bad purpose, Philocomasium, you wish to have a wrong nameIn the original Latin, the name is Diceae, which sounds like the Greek word for just or righteous. Scledrus is making a pun.. Away with you, shocking woman; for most notably are you doing a wrong to my master.
