Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
Only let me know how much he asks for her.
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TOXILUS
Should you like me to call him here?
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DORDALUS
I’ll go to him.
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TOXILUS
How fare you, guest?
SAGARISTIO
I’m come; I’ve brought her (pointing to the DAMSEL.) as I just now said I would. For yesterday at night the ship arrived in harbour: I want her to be sold, if she can; if she cannot, I intend to go away from here as soon as I can.
DORDALUS
Greetings to you, young man.
SAGARISTIO
If indeed I shall dispose of her at her own price—
TOXILUS
Why, you’ll either sell her handsomely with him for your purchaser, or you can to no one.
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SAGARISTIO
Are you a friend of his?
TOXILUS
In the same measure as all the Divinities who inhabit the heavens.
DORDALUS
Then you are an assured enemy to me; for to the race of procurers no God was ever so kind as to prove propitious.
SAGARISTIO
Attend to the business in hand. Have you any need to purchase her?
DORDALUS
If you have need for her to be sold,
I, too, have need to purchase her; if you have no sudden occasion to sell, just in the same degree have I to buy.
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SAGARISTIO
State a sum; name a price.
DORDALUS
The commodity is your own; it’s for you to name a sum.
TOXILUS
He asks what’s right.
SAGARISTIO
Do you wish to buy at a bargain?
DORDALUS
Do you wish to sell at a handsome profit?
TOXILUS
I’ faith, I’m sure that both of you would like to do so.
