Perde 4
[Textpart 4]
The auspices are favourable.
TOXILUS
Hold your tongue.Part of line 607b in the Latin. (To DORDALUS.) Step you aside here; I will now conduct her to you.
DORDALUS
Do what you think is most for my interest.
TOXILUS
Follow me. (To DORDALUS.) I’ve brought her, if you are wishful to make any enquiries of her.
DORDALUS
But I want you to be present.
TOXILUS
I cannot do otherwise than pay attention to this stranger (pointing to SAGARISTIO.) whom my master bade me show courtesy to. What if he doesn’t choose that I should be present together with you?
SAGARISTIO
Yes, but do come.
TOXILUS
I’ll lend you my assistance, then.
DORDALUS
You’re lending it yourself as well when you are assisting your friend.
TOXILUS
Examine her. (Aside to the YOUNG WOMAN.) Hark you, be on your guard.
615
DAUGHTER
Enough has been said to me. (Aloud.) Although I am a slave, I know my duty, so that whatever he asks I’ll tell the truth as I have heard it.
615
TOXILUS
Young woman, this is an honorable man.
TOXILUS
You’ll not be long in servitude with him.
DAUGHTER
I’ faith, and so I trust, if my parents do their duty.
DORDALUS
I do not wish you to be surprised, if we make enquiries of you
about either your country or your parents.
620
DAUGHTER
Why should I be surprised at that, my dear sir? My state of servitude has forbidden me to be surprised at any misfortune of my own.
620
TOXILUS
May the Gods confound her! so cunning and crafty is she. She has got shrewd sense: how readily she does say what’s needed.
DORDALUS
What’s your name?
