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Act V. Scene 3.
Pythias, Chremes, Sophrona.
Py.
VVHat? what can I now devise in my mind?
What? how shall I requite that wicked fellow,
That put him upon us?
Ch.
Stir you self apace,
Nurse.
S.
I stir.
Ch.
I see that, but you make no riddance.
Py.
[line 5] Have you shewed the tokens already to the nurse?
Ch.
All.
Py.
I pray you, what saith she? doth she know them?
Ch.
Yes, and remembreth them too.
Py.
Truly you tell me good news, for I wish the maid well.
Go ye in, my Mystress hath looked for you at home a good while ago.
But look, I see that honest man Parmeno go along.
[line 10] Do you see how leisurely he goeth, forsooth.
I hope I have got a trick, how to vex him after my own fashion.
I will go in, that I may know the certainty about the owning of her:
Afterwards I will come forth, and terrifie this wicked varlet.
Act. V. Scene 3.
Pythias, Chremes, Sophrona.
Py.
QUid? quid venire in mentem nunc possit mihi?
Quidnam? quî referam illi sacrilego gratiam,
Qui hunc supposuit nobis?
Ch.
Move verò ocyus
Te nutrix.
S.
Moveo.
Ch.
Video, sed nihil promoves.
Py.
[line 5] Jámne ostendisti signa nutrici?
Ch.
Omnia.
Py.
Amabò, quid ait, cognoscitne?
Ch.
Ac memoriter.
Py.
Bene aedipol narras: nam illi faveo virgini.
Ite intrò, jamdudum hera vos expectat domi.
Virum bonum eccum Parmenonem incedere
[line 10] Video. Viden', ut otiosus it, si diis placet.
Spero me habere quî hunc mco excruciem modo.
Ibo intrò, de cognitione ut certum sciam:
Post exibo, atque hunc perteribo sacrilegum.