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(Enter TOXILUS.)
TOXILUS
(to himself.)
If you give attention to any matter with steadiness or with good management,
that same is wont properly to thrive to your satisfaction. And, by my faith, pretty nearly according as each man gives attention to his business, in the same manner do the results
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finally ensure him success. If he is knavish or a rogue, the business turns out badly which he has commenced; but if he uses good management, it results profitably.
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Cleverly and skilfully did I commence upon this business; for that reason do I trust that it will turn out well for me. Now, I’ll this day have the Procurer so hampered, that he shan’t know himself which way to extricate himself.
(Goes to the door.) Sagaristio, hallo! Come forth, and bring out the young woman,
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and that letter which I sealed for you, which you brought me all the way from Persia, from my master.
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If you give attention to any matter with steadiness or with good management,
that same is wont properly to thrive to your satisfaction. And, by my faith, pretty nearly according as each man gives attention to his business, in the same manner do the results
1
finally ensure him success. If he is knavish or a rogue, the business turns out badly which he has commenced; but if he uses good management, it results profitably.
450
Cleverly and skilfully did I commence upon this business; for that reason do I trust that it will turn out well for me. Now, I’ll this day have the Procurer so hampered, that he shan’t know himself which way to extricate himself.
(Goes to the door.) Sagaristio, hallo! Come forth, and bring out the young woman,
455
and that letter which I sealed for you, which you brought me all the way from Persia, from my master.
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Persa. Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley (Translator). London. 1913.
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