Perde 2
[Textpart 6]
and to this poor shabby cloak; I’m done for to all intents.
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CHARMIDES
Then you may even go into partnership with me; we have got equal shares.
LABRAX
If at least my damsels had been saved, there would have been some hope. Now, if the young man Plesidippus should be seeing me,
from whom I received the earnest for Palaestra, he’ll then be causing me some trouble in consequence.
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CHARMIDES
Why cry, you fool? Really, by my troth, so long as your tongue shall exist, you have abundance with which to make payment to everybody Payment to everybody: He means, that his readiness to commit perjury will save him the trouble of finding money to pay with as he can always swear that he has paid already..
[Textpart 7]
What to-do is this, I’d like to know, that two young women
SCEPARNIO
here in the Temple, in tears, are holding in their embrace the statue of Venus, dreading I know not what in their wretchedness? But they say that this last night they have been tossed about, and to-day cast on shore from the waves.
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LABRAX
Troth now, young man, prithee, where are these young women that you are talking of?
SCEPARNIO
Here (pointing) in the Temple of Venus.
LABRAX
How many are there?
SCEPARNIO
Just as many as you and I make.
LABRAX
Surely, they are mine.
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SCEPARNIO
Surely, I know nothing about that.
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LABRAX
Of what appearance are they?
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SCEPARNIO
Good-looking; I could even fall in love with either of them, if I were well liquored.
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LABRAX
Surely, they are the damsels.
SCEPARNIO
Surely, you are a nuisance; be off, go in and see, if you like.
LABRAX
These must be my wenches in here, my dear Charmides.
CHARMIDES
Jupiter confound you, both if they are and still if they are not.
LABRAX
I’ll straightway burst into this Temple of Venus here.
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