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Act IV. Scene 6.
Crito, Mysis, Davus.
Ch.
I Was told, that Chrysis lived in this street,
Who chose rather to get wealth here dishonestly,
Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afris poëtae lepidissimi comoediae sex Anglo-Latinae in usum ludi-discipulorum, quo Feliciùs venustatem linguae Latinae ad sermonem quotidianum exercendum assequantur / a Carolo Hoole ... = Six comedies of that excellent poet Publius Terentius, an African of Carthage, in English and Latine : for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine tongue for common discourse / by Charles Hoole ...
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Then to live poor and honestly in her own country,
Her goods are fallen to me by her death.
[line 5] But I see some of whom I may ask. God save you.
M.
I pray you,
Whom do I see? Is not this Crito, Chrysis her full cosin?
It is he.
Cr.
O Mysis, God save you.
M.
God save you, Crito.
Cr.
Is it so, is Chrysis dead? Ha!
M.
Shee hath undone us poor wo∣men.
Cr.
How do you? How do you live? Is all well with you?
M.
What we?
[line 10] We do as we can, as they say, when we cannot do as we would.
Cr.
What doth Glycerie? hath she yet found out her parents here?
M.
I would she had.
Cr.
What not yet? I came hither unluckily;
For truly had I known that, I would never have set foot hither;
For she was always reported and held to be her sister,
[line 15] Shee is in possession of what was Chrysis's. Now for me that am but a stranger to follow suits here,
How easie and profitable it is likely to be, other mens examples fore∣warn me.
Besides I suppose she hath now some friend or guardian,
For she was almost a grown woman when she went thence, They may cry out on me,
That I like a petty-fogging knave do hunt after another bodies estate, that I am a beggerly rascal and besides
[line 20] I may not bereave her of all.
M.
O most honest stranger Crito, indeed you keep your old wont.
Cr.
Bring me to her, and seeing I am come hither, let me see her.
M.
Yes.
D.
I will follow these folks; I am loth the old man should see me at this time.
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Actus IV. Scen. 6.
Crito, Mysis, Davus.
Cr.
IN hac habitasse platea dictum est Chrysidem,
Quae sese inhonestè optavit parare hîc divitias,
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Potius quàm in patriâ honestè pauper vivere.
Ejus morte ad me lege redierunt bona.
[line 5] Sed quos percuncter, video. Salvete.
M.
Obsecro,
Quem video? Estné hic sobrinus Chrysidis?
Is est.
Cr.
O Mysis, salve.
M.
Salvus sis, Crito.
Cr.
Itan' Chrysis? Hem.
M.
Nos quidem pol miseras perdidit.
Cr.
Quî vos? quo pacto? satin' rectè?
M.
Nósne?
[line 10] Sic ut quimus, aiunt, quando ut volumus, non licet?
Cr.
Quid Glycerium? jam hîc suos parentes repperit?
M.
Utinam.
Cr.
An nondum etiam? haud auspicatò huc me appuli:
Nam pol si id scissem, nunquam huc tetulissem pedem.
Semper enim dicta est esse haec, atque habita est soror.
[line 15] Quae illius fuêre possidet. Nunc me hospitem lites sequi, quàm hîc mihi sit
Facile atque utile, aliorum exempla commonent.
Simul arbitror jam aliquem esse amicum & defensorem ei;
Nam ferè grandiuscula jam profecta est illinc, clamitent me
Sycophantem haereditatem persequi, mendicum: tum ipsam despo∣liare
[line 20] Non licet.
M.
Optume hospes, pol, Crito, antiquum tenes.
Cr.
Duc me ad eam, & quando huc veni, ut videam.
M.
Maxumè.
D.
Sequar hos, nolo ut me tempore hoc videat senex.