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Cistellaria, or The Casket (739a-768)

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But still he looks for it in vain.
LAMPADISCUS
But, by my faith, good woman, in no matter does this certain man give his pains for nothing.
PHANOSTRATA
Lend me your conversation: it will now be for your own advantage. We confess that we have got the casket.
HALISCA
Then may Salvation preserve you; where is it now?
PHANOSTRATA(producing the casket.)
See, here it is, safe. But I wish to discourse with you upon a matter of importance to myself; I take you as a sharer with me in my own preservation.
HALISCA
What matter is this, or who are you?
PHANOSTRATA
I am the mother of her who had these things with her, when exposed.
HALISCA
Do you live here then?
(Pointing to the house.)
PHANOSTRATA
You are a diviner. But, prithee, good woman, do lay aside all mystification, and to the point; tell me at once, whence did you get these trinkets?
HALISCA
This daughter of my mistress had them.
LAMPADISCUS
You tell a falsehood; for my own mistress’s daughter had them, not yours.
PHANOSTRATA
Don’t interrupt.
LAMPADISCUS
I’ll be mum.
PHANOSTRATA
Good woman, go on speaking. Where is she who had them?
HALISCA(pointing to the house of ALCESIMARCHUS.)
Here, next door.
PHANOSTRATA
By the powers, surely the son-in-law of my husband is living there.
LAMPADISCUS
Surely—
PHANOSTRATA(to LAMPADISCUS.)
Interrupting again? (To HALISCA.) Go on relating it. How many years old is she said to be?
HALISCA
Seventeen.
PHANOSTRATA
She is my own daughter then!
LAMPADISCUS
’Tis she, as the number of her years has proved.
HALISCA
What you are seeking, you have found; I now seek what’s mine.
LAMPADISCUS
Why, faith, they’ve found what’s their own, I’ll seek for number three[*].
PHANOSTRATA
My daughter, the object which I was seeking, I have discovered.
HALISCA
It’s proper to keep in safety what has been entrusted in confidence, lest a kindness should turn out a detriment to the well-deserving. This fosterling of ours is assuredly your daughter,
and my mistress is about to restore you your own, and for that purpose has she come from her house. But, prithee,
enquire of her own self; I am but a servant.
PHANOSTRATA
You ask what’s just.
HALISCA
To her rather do I choose this obligation to belong. But I beg that you’ll restore me that casket.
PHANOSTRATA
What’s to be done, Lampadio?

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