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[Textpart 8]
That happiness may. attend you.
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TOXILUS
I’ faith, all that indeed I shall surely enjoy at home now; for I shall now go take my place at table with your freed-woman.
DORDALUS
Why don’t you hold your tongue? I know what it is you want.
730
[Textpart 9]
If I don’t prove the destruction of that fellow—
DORDALUS
I’m undone.Part of line 738 in the Latin.
SATURIO
And most luckilyPart of line 738 in the Latin. there he is, himself, before the door.
DAUGHTER
Most welcome, my dear father.
SATURIO
Welcome, my child.
740
DORDALUS
That Persian has utterly ruined me!
740
DAUGHTER
This is my father.
DORDALUS
Ha!—what?—father? I’m utterly undone! Why then, in my misery, do I delay to bewail my sixty minae?
SATURIO
By my faith, you scoundrel, I’ll give you cause to bewail your own self as well.
SATURIO
Come, walk before a magistrate, Procurer.
745
DORDALUS
Why do you summon me before a magistrate?
745
SATURIO
I’ll tell you there, before the Praetor. But before the magistrate I summon you.
DORDALUS
Don’t you summon Don’t you summon: See the Notes to the Curculio, l. 621. A slave, or a person of infamous character, might be dragged by force, when summoned to appear before the Praetor. a witness?
SATURIO
What, for your sake, hangdog, am I to be touching the ear of any being that’s free—you, who are here trading in persons, free citizens?
DORDALUS
Let me but speak—
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