Perde 3
[Textpart 3]
What’s this? Whose words are those? Why do I delay to console them? (Aloud.) Harkye, Palaestra,
TRACHALIO
Ampelisca, harkye!
PALAESTRA
Prithee, who is it that calls us?
AMPELISCA
Who is it that calls me by name?
TRACHALIO
If you turn round and look, you’ll know.
PALAESTRA
O hope of my safety!
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TRACHALIO
Be silent and of good courage; trust me Trust me: At the same time he is afraid to go in. Palaestra sees this, and taunts him with being brave—in words only..
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PALAESTRA
If only it can be so, let not violence overwhelm us.
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PALAESTRA
That same which is driving me to commit violence on myself.
TRACHALIO
Oh, do leave off; you are very silly.
PALAESTRA
Then do you leave off at once your consoling me in my misery with words.
AMPELISCA
Unless you afford us protection in reality In reality: Re, in reality, in contradistinction to words., Trachalio, it’s all over with us.
PALAESTRA
I’m resolved to die sooner than suffer this Procurer to get me in his power. But still I am of woman’s heart; when, in my misery, death comes into my mind, fear takes possession of my limbs.End of sentence is part of line 686 in the Latin.
TRACHALIO
By my troth, although this is a bitter affliction,
PALAESTRA
Why where, pray, is a good heart to be found for me?
TRACHALIO
Don’t you fear, I tell you; sit you down here by the altar.
AMPELISCA
What can this altar possibly avail us more than the statue here within the Temple
of Venus, from which just now, embracing it, in our wretchedness, we were torn by force?
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