<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="4"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="10"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="995b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> When you choose, read on; I devote to you the attention of my ears.</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><lb/><stage>(looking close.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="991" part="I" rend="align(indent)">Bless me! the letters are small.</l></sp><sp><speaker>CHRYSALUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="991b" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> To one, indeed, who cannot see well with his eyes but they are quite large enough for one who can see well.</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="995" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> Give your attention then.</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="997"><stage>(He reads.)</stage><q rend="double">Father, I beseech you, do give two hundred Philippeans to Chrysalus, if you wish me to be safe or alive for you—</q></l></sp><sp><speaker>CHRYSALUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="999" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> By my troth, really a very great mistake, </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="999b" part="M">I tell you.</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="999c" part="F" rend="align(indent)"> What’s the matter? </l></sp><sp><speaker>CHRYSALUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1000" part="I" rend="align(indent)"> He hasn’t first written the salutation to you.</l></sp><sp><speaker>NICOBULUS</speaker><lb/><stage>(looking.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1000b" part="F" rend="align(indent)">I don’t see it anywhere.</l></sp><sp><speaker>CHRYSALUS</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1006" rend="align(indent)"> Even from its very commencement the letter is an impertinent one.</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi004.perseus-eng2" n="1001">If you are wise, you’ll not give it; but at the best, if you give it him, why, let him find out some other porter for himself, if he is wise; for I won’t carry it if you order me ever so much. I’ve been quite enough suspected as it is, when I was guiltless of a fault.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>