<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.phi004.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="5"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="2"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1193" rend="align(indent)"> My head does itch so<note resp="editor"><emph rend="italic" n="mentioned">Does itch so</emph>:  Being in doubt what to do, he scratches his head, and then tries to turn it off by saying, <q rend="double">Bless me, how my head does itch.</q></note>. <stage>(Aside.)</stage> I’m a ruined man—I can scarce deny her.</l></sp><sp><speaker>PHILOXENUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1194" rend="align(indent)"> And has it not before this come into your mind, that if, while you live, you enjoy yourself, </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1195">that, i’ faith, is for no very long time; and that, if you lose the present day, it can never return to you after you are dead?</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1196" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> What am I to do? </l></sp><sp><speaker>PHILOXENUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1196b" part="M" rend="align(indent)"> What are you to do? Do you even ask it?</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1196c" part="M" rend="align(indent)"> I should like, and yet I’m afraid.</l></sp><sp><speaker>1st BACCHIS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1196d" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> What are you afraid of?</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1197" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> Lest I should be exposed before my son and my servant.</l></sp><sp><speaker>1st BACCHIS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1197b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> Pray now, my honey; such things do happen. He’s your own son; whence do you suppose that he is to have money, except that only which you give him yourself? Let me obtain pardon of you for them both.</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><lb/><stage>(aside.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1199b" part="F" rend="align(indent)">How she does work her way. </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1200">She’s now prevailing on me against that which I was quite resolved upon.</l></sp><sp><speaker>1st BACCHIS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1200a" rend="align(indent)"> I will love you, and embrace you.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>