Perde 2
[Textpart 4]
Are you in your senses, pray?
DINARCHUS
By heavens, I cannot drink now; so sick at heart am I.
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PHRONESIUM
Stay; something shall be done. Don’t go.
DINARCHUS
Ah, you’ve refreshed me with cold water! My senses have now returned. Take off my shoesTake off my shoes: This he says to the servant whose duty it was to take off the slippers of the guests before they reclined. Limiers suggests, most probably incorrectly, that this is going on inside of Phronesium’s house, and that the door is opened wide, so that the Audience can see in.; give me something to drink.
PHRONESIUM
By my faith, you are just the same that you used to be. But tell me, have you sped successfully?
DINARCHUS
I’ troth, successfully enough, indeed, hither to you, inasmuch as I enjoy the opportunity of seeing you.
PHRONESIUM
Embrace me then.
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DINARCHUS
With pleasure. (He embraces her.) Oh, this is honey sweeter than sweet honey. In this, Jove, my fortune does exceed thine own!
PHRONESIUM
Won’t you give me a kiss?
PHRONESIUM
You are not niggardly in that. You promise more than I ask of you.
DINARCHUS
I only wish that from the first I had been as sparing of my property, as you are now thrifty of your kisses.
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PHRONESIUM
If I could possibly cause you any saving, i’ troth, I could wish it done.
DINARCHUS
Have you bathed then?
PHRONESIUM
I’ troth, indeed I have then, to my own satisfaction and that of my eyes. Do I seem to be loathsome to you?
DINARCHUS
I’ faith, not to myself indeed;
but I remember that there was once a time when between ourselves we were loathsomeWere loathsome: Sorderemus unus alteri; he to her because he had spent all his money, she to him for her covetousness and ill-nature., the one to the other. But what doing of yours is this I’ve heard upon my arrival? What new matter have you been scheming here in my absence?
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PHRONESIUM
Why, what is it?
DINARCHUS
In the first place, that you’ve been blessed with children,
and that you’ve safely got over it, I’m delighted.
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