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[Textpart 6]
Place it around my neck, if it is not too much trouble.
DORDALUS
Certainly, it shall be done.
SAGARISTIO
Is there anything else that you wish with me?
TOXILUS
Why are you in such haste?
SAGARISTIO
My business is of that nature; the letters that have been entrusted me, I want to deliver;
and I’ve heard that my twin-brother’s a slave here; I wish to be off to seek him out, and redeem him.
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TOXILUS
And, i’ faith, you’ve not badly put me in mind of it; I think that I’ve seen here one very like you in figure, of just the same size.
SAGARISTIO
Why, it must surely be my brother Be my brother: Sagaristio is afraid that Dordalus may remember having seen him before about the city, and he artfully preoccupies the ground, by saying that he is searching for his twin-brother, whom he has lost..
DORDALUS
But we’d like to know what your name is.
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TOXILUS
What does it matter to us to know?
SAGARISTIO
Listen then, that you may know; my name is Lying- speakerus Lying-speakerus: He here uses an assemblage of long words made for the occasion, and coined out of Latin and Greek, hashed up together which, however, contain in themselves an account of the part which he is then acting towards the Procurer. The lines in the original are as follows: Vaniloquidorus, Virginisvendonides, Nugipolyloquides, Argentiexterebronides, Tedigniloquides, Nummorumexpalponides, Quodseme arripides, Nunquamposteareddides. , Virgin-seller-onides, Trifle-great-talker-ides, Silver-screwer-outides, Thee-worthy-to-talk-to-ides, Wheedler-out-of-coin-ides,
What-he-has-once-got-hold-of-ides, Never-again-part-with-it-ides.
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DORDALUS
Dear me; upon my faith, this name of yours is written in many ways.
SAGARISTIO
Such is the way with the Persians; we have long names of many words twisted together. Do you wish for anything else?
SAGARISTIO
And you farewell; for my mind’s aboard ship already.
DORDALUS
You’d better have gone to-morrow, and dined here to-day.
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(SAGARISTIO is going.) Farewell!
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[Textpart 7]
Since that fellow’s gone, I may say here whatever I please. This day has assuredly shone a gainful one for you; for you’ve not been buying her, but making a clear profit of her.
DORDALUS
He indeed quite understands what he has been about,
