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Curculio, or The Forgery (415-437b)

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Because, when in my drunken fit I’ve gone to sleep, I summane[*] the garments; for that reason do all people call me Summanus.
LYCO
’Twere better for you to look out for entertainment for you somewhere else; really in my own house I have no room for a Summanus. But I am the person that you are looking for.
CURCULIO
Prithee, are you he,
Lyco the banker?
LYCO
I am.
CURCULIO
Therapontigonus requested me to give you a hearty greeting, and to deliver this letter.
LYCO
What, to me?
CURCULIO
Just so. Take it, recognize the seal. Do you know it? (LYCO takes the letter.)
LYCO
Why should I not know it? On which, a man, holding a shield, is cleaving an elephant asunder with a sword.
CURCULIO
What’s written there he bade me request you to do immediately, if you wished for his esteem.
LYCO
Step aside; I’ll look what’s written in it.
CURCULIO
(stepping aside.)
By all means, at your pleasure, so long as I receive of you that which I’m come for.
LYCO
(reads.)
Therapontigonus Platagidorus, the Captain, his guest, sends to his host Lyco, at Epidaurus,
right hearty greeting.
CURCULIO
(aside.)
This fellow’s my own; he’s swallowing the hook.
LYCO
(going on.)
I beg and request of you that, the person who delivers this letter to you, to him be given up the girl whom I purchased there (which I did there in your presence, and you being the negotiator),
and the golden trinkets and clothes as well. You know already how it was agreed upon. You give the money to the Procurer, and give the young woman to this person.(To CURCULIO.) Where is he himself? Why doesn’t he come?
CURCULIO
I’ll tell you; because it is but four days since we arrived in Caria, from India; there he now intends to order a solid golden statue

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