Perde 2
[Textpart 2]
Because I’m teaching those who know it all. But I’m loitering here.
PAEGNIUM
You are annoying to me.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
And so I shall be then, if I don’t find out whither you are betaking yourself.
PAEGNIUM
To your house.
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SOPHOCLIDISCA
And I to your house, i’ faith.
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PAEGNIUM
Why thither?
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SOPHOCLIDISCA
What’s that to you?
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PAEGNIUM
Why, you shan’t go now, unless, in return, I know.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
You are teazing.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Never, upon my faith, shall you wring this out of me, so as to prove yourself more artful than I am.
PAEGNIUM
It’s a misery to contend with you in artfulness.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
You are a mischievous baggage.
PAEGNIUM
What is there for you to fear?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
The very same that there is for you.
PAEGNIUM
Say then, what is it?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
But I’m forbidden to tell this to any person, and am instructed that all the dumb people are to speak of it before myself.
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PAEGNIUM
And most especially was I cautioned not to trust this to any person, so that all the dumb people were to mention this before myself.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Still, do you do so; on giving our words, let’s trust each other.
