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(Enter SYRUS.)
(Enter SYRUS.)
SYRUS
Hark you, Demea, your brother begs you will not go out of the way.
Hark you, Demea, your brother begs you will not go out of the way.
DEMEA
Who is it?—O Syrus, my friend,
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save you! how are you? How goes it with you?
Who is it?—O Syrus, my friend,
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save you! how are you? How goes it with you?
SYRUS
Very well.
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Very well.
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DEMEA
Very good.
(Aside.) I have now for the first time used these three expressions contrary to my nature,—
O Syrus, my friend, how are you?—how goes it with you?
(To SYRUS.) You show yourself far from an unworthy servant, and I shall gladly do you a service.
Very good.
(Aside.) I have now for the first time used these three expressions contrary to my nature,—
O Syrus, my friend, how are you?—how goes it with you?
(To SYRUS.) You show yourself far from an unworthy servant, and I shall gladly do you a service.
SYRUS
I thank you.
I thank you.
DEMEA
Yes, Syrus, it is the truth; and you shall be convinced of it by experience before long.
Yes, Syrus, it is the truth; and you shall be convinced of it by experience before long.
Adelphi. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). New York. 1874.
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