Andria; or, The Fair Andrian

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4.4.743b
He isn’t any where to be seen. Woe to wretched me! the fellow has left me and is off.
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Ye Gods, by our trust in you!
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what a crowd there is in the Forum! What a lot of people are squabbling there! (Aloud.) Then provisions are so dear. (Aside.) What to say besides, I don’t know.
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Pray, why did you leave me here alone?
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Ha! what story is this? How now, Mysis, whence comes this child? Who has brought it here?
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Are you quite right in your senses, to be asking me that?
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Whom, then, ought I to ask,
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as I don’t see any one else here?
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I wonder whence it has come.
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Are you going to tell me what I ask?
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Pshaw!
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Step aside to the right.
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You are out of your senses; didn’t you your own self?
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Take you care not to utter a single word beyond what I ask you.
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Why don’t you say aloud whence it comes?
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From our house.
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Heyday, indeed!
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it really is a wonder if a woman, who is a courtesan, acts impudently.
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So far as I can learn, this woman belongs to the Andrian.
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Do we seem to you such very suitable persons for you to be playing tricks with us in this way?
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I came just in time.
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Make haste then, and take the child away from the door here:
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(in a low voice.) stay there; take care you don’t stir from that spot.
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May the Gods confound you! you do so terrify poor me.
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Is it to you I speak or not?
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What is it you want?
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What—do you ask me again? Tell me, whose child have you been laying here? Let me know.
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Don’t you know?
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Have done with what I know; tell me what I ask.
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It belongs to your people.
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Which of our people?
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To Pamphilus.
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How? What—to Pamphilus?
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How now—is it not so?
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With good reason have I always been averse to this match, it’s clear.
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O abominable piece of effrontery!
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Why are you bawling out so?
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What, the very one I saw being carried to your house yesterday evening?
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O you impudent fellow!
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It’s the truth. I saw Canthara stuffed out beneath her clothes.
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I’faith, I thank the Gods that several free women were present at the delivery.
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Assuredly she doesn’t know him, on whose account she resorts to these schemes. Chremes, she fancies, if he sees the child laid before the door, will not give his daughter; i’faith, he’ll give her all the sooner.
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I’faith, he’ll not do so.
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Now therefore, that you may be quite aware, if you don’t take up the child, I’ll roll it forthwith into the middle of the road; and yourself in the same place I’ll roll over into the mud.
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Upon my word, man, you are not sober.
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One scheme brings on another. I now hear it whispered about that she is a citizen of Attica—
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Ha!
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And that, constrained by the laws, he will have to take her as his wife.
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Well now, pray, is she not a citizen?
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I had almost fallen unawares into a comical misfortune.
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Who’s that, speaking? (Pretending to look about.) O Chremes, you have come in good time. Do listen to this.
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I have heard it all already.
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Prithee, did you hear it? Here’s villainy for you! she (pointing at MYSIS.) ought to be carried off hence to the torture forthwith. (To MYSIS, pointing at CHREMES.) This is Chremes himself; don’t suppose that you are trifling with Davus only.
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Wretched me! upon my faith I have told no untruth, my worthy old gentleman.
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I know the whole affair. Is Simo within?
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He is.
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Don’t touch me, villain. (Moving away.) On my word, if I don’t tell Glycerium all this—
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How now, simpleton, don’t you know what has been done?
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How should I know?
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This is the bride’s father. It couldn’t any other way have been managed that he should know the things that we wanted him to know.
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You should have told me that before.
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Do you suppose that it makes little difference whether you do things according to impulse,
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as nature prompts, or from premeditation?
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It was said that Chrysis used to live in this street, who preferred to gain wealth here dishonorably to living honestly as a poor woman in her own country: by her death that property has descended to me by law.
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But I see some persons of whom to make inquiry. (Accosting them.) Good-morrow to you.
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Prithee, whom do I see? Isn’t this Crito, the kinsman of Chrysis? It is he.
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O Mysis, greetings to you.
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Welcome to you, Crito.
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Is Chrysis then—? Alas!
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Too truly. She has indeed left us poor creatures quite heart-broken.
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How fare you here, and in what fashion? Pretty well?
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What, we? Just
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as we can, as they say; since we can’t as we would.
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How is Glycerium? Has she discovered her parents yet?
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I wish she had.
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What, not yet? With no favorable omen did I set out for this place; for, upon my faith, if I had known that, I never would have moved a foot hither. She was always said to be, and was looked upon as her sister;
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what things were hers she is in possession of; now for me to begin a suit at law here, the precedents of others warn me, a stranger, how easy and profitable a task it would be for me. At the same time, I suppose that by this she has got some friend and protector; for she was pretty nearly a grown-up girl when she left there. They would cry out
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that I am a sharper; that, a pauper, I’m hunting after an inheritance; besides, I shouldn’t like to strip the girl herself.
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O most worthy stranger! I’faith, Crito, you still adhere to your good old-fashioned ways.
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Lead me to her, since I have come hither, that I may see her.
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By all means.
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I’ll follow them; I don’t wish the old man to see me at this moment.
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Enough already, enough, Simo, has my friendship toward you been proved. Sufficient hazard have I begun to encounter; make an end of your entreaties, then. While I’ve been endeavoring to oblige you, I’ve almost fooled away my daughter’s prospects in life.
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Nay but, now in especial, Chremes, I do beg and entreat of you, that the favor, commenced a short time since in words, you’ll now complete by deeds.
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See how unreasonable you are from your very earnestness; so long as you effect what you desire, you neither think of limits to compliance, nor what it is you request of me; for if you did think, you would now forbear to trouble me with unreasonable requests.
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What unreasonable requests?
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Do you ask? You importuned me to promise my daughter to a young man engaged in another attachment, averse to the marriage state,
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to plunge her into discord and a marriage of uncertain duration; that through her sorrow and her anguish I might reclaim your son. You prevailed; while the case admitted of it I made preparations. Now it does not admit of it; you must put up with it; they say that she is a citizen of this place; a child has been born; do cease to trouble us.
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By the Gods, I do conjure you not to bring your mind to believe
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those whose especial interest it is that he should be as degraded as possible. On account of the marriage, have all these things been feigned and contrived. When the reason for which they do these things is removed from them, they will desist.
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You are mistaken; I myself saw the servant-maid wrangling with Davus.
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I am aware.
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With an appearance of earnestness, when neither at the moment perceived that I was present there.
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I believe it; and Davus a short time since forewarned me that this would be the case; and I don’t know how I forgot to tell it you to-day, as I had intended.
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Now then, I bid you set your minds at ease.
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See you, there’s Davus.
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From what house is he coming out?
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Through my means, and that of the stranger—
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What mischief is this?
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I never did see a more opportune person, encounter, or occasion.

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