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He who, falling in love, destitute of means, has first entered upon the paths of love, has in his own labours exceeded all the labours of Hercules. For with the lion With the lion: The. conquest of the Nemaean lion, the Hydra of Lerna, the brazen-footed stag, the Erymanthian boar, the birds of Lake Stymphalus, and the giant Antaeus, formed part of the labours of Hercules. See the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books 9 and 10., and with the Hydra, with the stag, with the Aetolian boar, with the birds of Stamphalus, with Antaeus, would I rather contend
TOXILUS
than with love. So wretched am I become with hunting after money to borrow; and yet, those whom I ask know of nothing to answer me, except I have got none.
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SAGARISTIO
The servant that is desirous faithfully to serve his master, i’ troth, it surely does behove him to treasure up full many a thing in his breast which he may think will please his master, both present and abroad.
I neither serve with cheerfulness, nor am I quite to my master’s satisfaction; but, as though from a running eye, my master is still unable to keep his hands off me, in giving me his commands, in making me the support of his affairs.
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TOXILUS
Who’s this that’s standing opposite to me?
SAGARISTIO
Who’s that that’s standing opposite to me?
TOXILUS
It’s like Sagaristio.
SAGARISTIO
Surely this is my friend Toxilus.
TOXILUS
Certainly it is he.
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SAGARISTIO
I think it is he.
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TOXILUS
I’ll go meet him.
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SAGARISTIO
I’ll go up and accost him.
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TOXILUS
O Sagaristio, may the Gods bless you.
SAGARISTIO
O Sagaristio, the Gods grant you what you may desire. How fare you?
SAGARISTIO
What’s the matter?
SAGARISTIO
Quite then to your satisfaction?
TOXILUS
If the things come to pass which I desire, quite.
SAGARISTIO
You deal with your friends in a very silly fashion.
