<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="3"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="6"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="538" part="I" rend="align(indent)">Did you hear me? </l></sp><sp><speaker>EUCLIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="538b" part="F" rend="align(indent)">Everything from the very beginning.</l></sp><sp><speaker>MEGADORUS</speaker><lb/><stage>(eyeing him from head to foot.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="539" rend="align(indent)">Still, in my way of thinking indeed, you would be acting a little more becomingly </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="540">if you were more tidy at the wedding of your daughter.</l></sp><sp><speaker>EUCLIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="541" rend="align(indent)">Those who have display according to their circumstances and splendour according to their means<note resp="editor"><emph rend="italic" n="mentioned">According to their means</emph>:  Shakspeare expresses the same idea in <cit><bibl n="Shak. Ham 1.3">Hamlet, Act I, Sc. 3:</bibl><quote xml:lang="eng"><lg type="blank"><l>Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,</l><l>But not expressed in fancy.</l></lg></quote></cit></note>, remember themselves, from whence they are sprung; neither by myself, Megadorus, nor by any poor man, are better circumstances enjoyed than appearances warrant.</l></sp><sp><speaker>MEGADORUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="545" rend="align(indent)">Surely they are; and may the Gods, I hope, make them so to be, and more and more may they prosper that which you now possess.</l></sp><sp><speaker>EUCLIO</speaker><lb/><stage>(aside.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="547" rend="align(indent)">That expression don’t please me, <q rend="double">which you now possess.</q> He knows that I’ve got this, as well as I do myself: the old woman has discovered it to him.</l></sp><sp><speaker>MEGADORUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="549" rend="align(indent)">Why do you separate yourself thus alone, apart from the Senate <note resp="editor"><emph rend="italic" n="mentioned">Apart from the Senate</emph>:  As the Senate consults about the common interests, so are they discussing their common sentiments. Megadorus therefore, on hearing him talking to himself, asks him why he is withdrawing himself from the discussions of the Senate.</note>?</l></sp><sp><speaker>EUCLIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi003.perseus-eng2" n="550" part="I" rend="align(indent)">Troth, I was considering whether I should accuse you deservedly.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>