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Andria; or, The Fair Andrian

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   The rascal!

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   I wonder who it is he’s praising?

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   All the affair is now in a safe position.

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   Why do I delay to accost him?

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   It’s my master; what am I to do?

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   O, save you, good sir!

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   Hah! Simo! O, Chremes, my dear sir, all things are now quite ready in-doors.

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   You have taken such very good care.

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   Send for the bride when you like.

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    Very good: (ironically.) of course, that’s the only thing that’s now wanting here. But do you answer me this, what business had you there?

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    What, I?

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    Just so.

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    I?

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    Yes, you.

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    I went in just now.

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    As if I asked how long ago!

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    Together with your son.

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    What, is Phamphilus in there? (Aside.) To my confusion, I’m on the rack! (To DAVUS.) How now? Didn’t you say that there was enmity between them, you scoundrel?

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    There is.

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    Why is he there, then?

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    Why do you. suppose he is? (Ironically.) Quarreling with her, of course.

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    Nay but, Chremes, I’ll let you now hear from me a disgraceful piece of business.

23. 5.2.855

    An old man, I don’t know who he is, has just now come here; look you, he is a confident and shrewd person; when you look at his appearance, he seems to be a person of some consequence. There is a grave sternness in his features, and something commanding in his words.

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    What news are you bringing, I wonder?

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    Why nothing but what I heard him mention.

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    What does he say then?

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    That he knows Glycerium to be a citizen of Attica.

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    Ho there!

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    Dromo, Dromo!

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    What is it?

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    Dromo!

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    Hear me.

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    If you add a word—Dromo!

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    Hear me, pray.

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    What do you want?

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    Carry him off on your shoulders in-doors as fast as possible.

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    Whom?

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    Davus.

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    For what reason?

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    Because I choose. (To. DROMO.) Carry him off, I say.

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    What have I done?

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    Carry him off.

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    If you find that I have told a lie in any one matter, then kill me.

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    I’ll hear nothing. I’ll soon have you set in motion.

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    What? Although this is the truth.

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    In spite of it.

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    (To DROMO.) Take care he’s kept well secured; and, do you hear? Tie him up hands and feet together. Now then, be off; upon my faith this very day, if I live, I’ll teach you what hazard there is in deceiving a master, and him in deceiving a father.

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    Oh, don’t be so extremely vexed.

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    O Chremes, the dutifulness of a son! Do you not pity me?

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    That I should endure so much trouble for such a son! (Goes to the door of GLYCERIUM’s house.) Come, Pamphilus, come out, Pamphilus! have you any shame left?

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    Who is it that wants me? (Aside.) I’m undone! it’s my father.

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    What say you, of all men, the —?

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    Oh! rather speak about the matter itself, and forbear to use harsh language.

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    As if any thing too severe could now be possibly said against him.

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    Pray, do you say that Glycerium is a citizen—

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    So they say.

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    So they say! Unparalleled assurance! does he consider what he says? Is he sorry for what he has done? Does his countenance, pray, at all betray any marks of shame? That he should be of mind so weak, as, without regard

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    to the custom and the law of his fellow-citizens, and the wish of his own father, to be anxious, in spite of every thing, to have her, to his own utter disgrace!

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    Miserable that I am!

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    Ha! have you at last found that out only just now, Pamphilus? Long since did that expression, long since, when you made up your mind, that what you desired must be effected by you at any price;

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    from that very day did that expression aptly befit you. But yet why do I torment myself? Why vex myself? Why worry my old age with this madness? Am I to suffer the punishment for his offenses? Nay then, let him have her, good-by to him, let him pass his life with her.

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    My father—

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    How, my father? As if you stood in any need of this father. Home, wife, and children, provided by you against the will of your father! People suborned, too, to say that she is a citizen of this place! You have gained your point.

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    Father, may I say a few words?

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    What can you say to me?

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    But, Simo, do hear him.

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    I, hear him? Why should I hear him,

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    Chremes?

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    Still, however, do allow him to speak.

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    Well then, let him speak: I allow him.

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    I own that I love her; if that is committing a fault, I own that also. To you, father, do I subject myself. Impose on me any injunction you please; command me. Do you wish me to take a wife? Do you wish me to give her up? As well as I can I will endure it. This only I request of you, not to think that this old gentleman has been suborned by me.

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    Allow me to clear myself, and to bring him here before you.

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    To bring him here?

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    Do allow me, father.

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    He asks what’s reasonable; do give him leave.

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    Allow me to obtain thus much of you.

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    I allow it. I desire any thing, so long as I find, Chremes, that I have not been deceived by him.

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    For a great offense, a slight punishment ought to satisfy a father.

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    Forbear entreating. Of these, any one reason prompts me to do it,

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    either your own sake, or the fact that it is the truth, or that I wish well for Glycerium herself.

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    Do I see Crito of Andros? Surely it is he.

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    Greetings to you, Chremes.

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    How is it that, so contrary to your usage, you are at Athens?

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    So it has happened. But is this Simo?

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    It is he.

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    Simo, were you asking for me?

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    How now, do you say that Glycerium is a citizen of this place?

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    Do you deny it?

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    Have you come here so well prepared?

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    For what purpose?

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    Do you ask? Are you to be acting this way with impunity? Are you to be luring young men into snares here, inexperienced in affairs, and liberally brought up, by tempting them, and to be playing upon their fancies by making promises?

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    Are you in your senses?

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    And are you to be patching up amours with Courtesans by marriage?

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    I’m undone! I fear that the stranger will not put up with this.

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    If, Simo, you knew this person well,

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    you would not think thus; he is a worthy man.

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    He, a worthy man! To come so opportunely to-day just at the very nuptials, and yet never to have come before? (Ironically.) Of course, we must believe him, Chremes.

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    If I didn’t dread my father, I have something, which, in this conjuncture, I could opportunely suggest to him

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    A sharper!

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     Hah!

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