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(Enter CHREMES and SOPHRONA.)
PYTHIAS
(to herself.)
Well! what now can suggest itself to my mind?
What, I wonder, in order that I may repay the favor to that villain who palmed this fellow off upon us?
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Well! what now can suggest itself to my mind?
What, I wonder, in order that I may repay the favor to that villain who palmed this fellow off upon us?
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CHREMES
Really, do bestir yourself more quickly, nurse.
Really, do bestir yourself more quickly, nurse.
SOPHRONA
I am bestirring.
I am bestirring.
CHREMES
So I see; but you don’t stir forward.
So I see; but you don’t stir forward.
PYTHIAS
(to CHREMES.)
Have you yet shown the tokens to the nurse?
Have you yet shown the tokens to the nurse?
CHREMES
All of them.
All of them.
PYTHIAS
Prithee, what does she say? Does she recognize them?
Prithee, what does she say? Does she recognize them?
CHREMES
Yes, with a full recollection of them.
Yes, with a full recollection of them.
PYTHIAS
Upon my faith, you do bring good news; for I really wish well to this young woman. Go in-doors: my mistress has been for some time expecting you at home.
(CHREMES and SOPHRONA go into THAIS’s house.) But look, yonder I espy that worthy fellow, Parmeno, coming: just see, for heaven’s sake, how leisurely he moves along. I hope I have it in my power to torment him after my own fashion.
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I’ll go in-doors, that I may know for certain about the discovery; afterward I’ll come out, and give this villain a terrible fright.
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(Goes into the house.)
Upon my faith, you do bring good news; for I really wish well to this young woman. Go in-doors: my mistress has been for some time expecting you at home.
(CHREMES and SOPHRONA go into THAIS’s house.) But look, yonder I espy that worthy fellow, Parmeno, coming: just see, for heaven’s sake, how leisurely he moves along. I hope I have it in my power to torment him after my own fashion.
915
I’ll go in-doors, that I may know for certain about the discovery; afterward I’ll come out, and give this villain a terrible fright.
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Eunuchus. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). Ney York. 1874.
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