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(Enter SAGARISTIO and the DAUGHTER of SATURIO, from the house, each dressed in Persian costume.)
SAGARISTIO
Have I delayed at all?
Have I delayed at all?
TOXILUS
Bravo! bravo! dressed out in splendid style.
(To SAGARISTIO.) The tiara
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does finely set off your dress. Then, too, how beautifully does the slipper become this stranger damsel!
But are you thoroughly up in your parts?
465
Bravo! bravo! dressed out in splendid style.
(To SAGARISTIO.) The tiara
1
does finely set off your dress. Then, too, how beautifully does the slipper become this stranger damsel!
But are you thoroughly up in your parts?
465
SAGARISTIO
Tragedians and Comedians have never been up so well.
Tragedians and Comedians have never been up so well.
TOXILUS
Troth, you are giving me kind assistance. Come, be off that way
(pointing.) to a distance out of sight, and hold your tongue. When you see me conversing with the Procurer, that will be the time to accost us; now be off, you,—away with you.
(SAGARISTIO and the DAMSEL go aside, out of sight.)
Troth, you are giving me kind assistance. Come, be off that way
(pointing.) to a distance out of sight, and hold your tongue. When you see me conversing with the Procurer, that will be the time to accost us; now be off, you,—away with you.
Persa. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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