Perde 3
[Textpart 1]
Upon my faith, I really could have wished that you had asked more, if only by a single coin.
THEUROPIDES
Young man, transact the business with me.
A BANKER
I’m to ask it of you, you mean?
THEUROPIDES
Come for it to-morrow.
A BANKER
I’ll be off, then; I’m quite satisfied if I get it tomorrow.
TRANIO
A plague may all the Gods and Goddesses send upon him! so utterly has he disarranged my plans. On my word, no class of men is there more disgusting, or less acquainted with fair dealing than the banking race.
655
THEUROPIDES
In what neighbourhood did my son buy this house?
TRANIO
Just see that, now! I’m undone!
660
THEUROPIDES
Are you going to tell me that which I ask you?
660
TRANIO
I’ll tell you; but I’m thinking what was the name of the owner.
THEUROPIDES
Well, call it to mind, then.
TRANIO
What am I to do now, except put the lie upon this neighbour of ours next door? I’ll say that his son has bought that house.
I’ faith, I’ve heard say that a lie piping-hot is the best lie; this is piping-hot; although it is at a distance off, it scorches badly. Whatever the Gods dictate, that am I determined to say.
665
THEUROPIDES
Well now? Have you recollected it by this?
TRANIO
May the Gods confound that fellow!—no this other fellow, rather.
(To THEUROPIDES.) Your son has bought the house of this next-door neighbour of yours.
THEUROPIDES
In real truth?
TRANIO
If, indeed, you are going to pay down the money, then in real truth; if you are not going to pay it, in real truth he has not bought it.
THEUROPIDES
He hasn’t bought it in a very good situation.
TRANIO
Why yes, in a very good one.
