Perde 1
[Textpart 4]
In that wish you are my rival.
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AMPELISCA
Let’s follow our voices with our steps; where are you?
PALAESTRA
See, here am I. Step onward towards me, and come straight on to meet me.
AMPELISCA
I’m doing so with care.
PALAESTRA
Give me your hand.
PALAESTRA
Are you still alive? Prithee, tell me.
AMPELISCA
You, indeed, make me now wish to live,
since I’m empowered to touch you. How hardly can I persuade myself of this, that I am holding you. Prithee, do embrace me (they embrace), my only hope; how you are now easing me of all my woes.
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PALAESTRA
You are beforehand with me in using expressions which belong to me. Now it befits us to be going hence.
AMPELISCA
Prithee, whither shall we go?
PALAESTRA
Let’s keep along this sea-shore.
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AMPELISCA
Wherever you please, I’ll follow.
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PALAESTRA
Shall we go along thus with our wet clothing?
AMPELISCA
That which exists, the same must of necessity be borne. (Looking up at the Temple.) But, pray, what’s this?
AMPELISCA
Prithee, don’t you see this Temple?
AMPELISCA
On the right hand.
PALAESTRA
I seem to be looking at a place becoming the Divinities.
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