Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
What’s the matter? Is your father in captivity?
DAUGHTER
Not in captivity; but what he had, he has lost.
TOXILUS
She will prove to be born of a good family; she knows how to say nothing but the truth.
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DORDALUS
Who was he? Tell me his name?
DAUGHTER
Why should I tell of him, wretched man, who he was? For the present ’twere proper for him to be called Miserable, and me Miserable.
DORDALUS
What kind of a person was he considered by the public?
DAUGHTER
Not a person more acceptable; slaves and free persons all liked him.
TOXILUS
You do speak of a miserable man,
inasmuch as he’s almost lost himself, and has lost his friends.
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DORDALUS
I shall purchase her, I think.
TOXILUS
What, still I think?
DORDALUS
I imagine that she’s of a noble family.Part of line 651b in the Latin.
TOXILUS
You’ll make riches by her.
DORDALUS
May the Gods grant it so.
TOXILUS
Do you only buy her.
DAUGHTER
Now this I tell you: my father will be here directly, when he knows that I’ve been sold, and will ransom me thus separated from him.
TOXILUS
What say you now?
DORDALUS
What’s the matter?
TOXILUS
Do you hear what she says?
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DAUGHTER
For although his fortunes are broken, he still has friends.
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