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(Enter AESCHINUS, from the house of MICIO.)
(Enter AESCHINUS, from the house of MICIO.)
AESCHINUS
(to himself.)
They really are killing me while too intent on performing the nuptials with all ceremony; the whole day is being wasted in their preparations.
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They really are killing me while too intent on performing the nuptials with all ceremony; the whole day is being wasted in their preparations.
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DEMEA
Aeschinus! how goes it?
Aeschinus! how goes it?
AESCHINUS
Ha, my father! are you here ?
Ha, my father! are you here ?
DEMEA
Your father, indeed, both by affection and by nature; as I love you more than my very eyes; but why don’t you
send for your wife?
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Your father, indeed, both by affection and by nature; as I love you more than my very eyes; but why don’t you
send for your wife?
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AESCHINUS
So I wish to do; but I am waiting for the music-girl
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and people to sing the nuptial song.
So I wish to do; but I am waiting for the music-girl
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and people to sing the nuptial song.
DEMEA
Come now, are you willing to listen to an old fellow like me?
Come now, are you willing to listen to an old fellow like me?
AESCHINUS
What is it?
What is it?
DEMEA
with all dispatch, and bring her over that way; make but one house of the two; bring the mother and all the domestics over to our house.
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with all dispatch, and bring her over that way; make but one house of the two; bring the mother and all the domestics over to our house.
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AESCHINUS
With all my heart, kindest father.
With all my heart, kindest father.
DEMEA
(aside.)
Well done! now I am called
kind. My brother’s house will become a thoroughfare; he will be bringing home a multitude, incurring expense in many ways: what matters it to me?
I, as the kind Demea, shall get into favor. Now then, bid that Babylonian
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pay down his twenty minae.
(To SYRUS.) Syrus, do you delay to go and do it ?
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Well done! now I am called
kind. My brother’s house will become a thoroughfare; he will be bringing home a multitude, incurring expense in many ways: what matters it to me?
I, as the kind Demea, shall get into favor. Now then, bid that Babylonian
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pay down his twenty minae.
(To SYRUS.) Syrus, do you delay to go and do it ?
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SYRUS
What am I to do?
What am I to do?
DEMEA
Pull down the wall: and you, Geta, go and bring them across.
Pull down the wall: and you, Geta, go and bring them across.
GETA
May the Gods bless you, Demea, as I see you so sincere a well-wisher to our family.
(GETA and SYRUS go into MICIO’S house.)
May the Gods bless you, Demea, as I see you so sincere a well-wisher to our family.
DEMEA
I think they deserve it. What say you, Aeschinus, as to this plan ?
I think they deserve it. What say you, Aeschinus, as to this plan ?
AESCHINUS
I quite agree to it.
I quite agree to it.
DEMEA
It is much more proper than that she, being sick and lying-in, should be brought hither through the street.
It is much more proper than that she, being sick and lying-in, should be brought hither through the street.
AESCHINUS
Why, my dear father, I never did see any thing better contrived.
Why, my dear father, I never did see any thing better contrived.
DEMEA
It’s my way; but see, here’s Micio coming out.
It’s my way; but see, here’s Micio coming out.
Adelphi. Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Henry Thomas Riley (Translator), George Colman (Translator). New York. 1874.
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