Scaife ATLAS

Mercator, or The Merchant (510-535b)

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If you choose to be a good girl, it shall be well for you.

PASICOMPSA

Then, i’ faith, to my sorrow, I’m undone.

LYSIMACHUS

Why so?

PASICOMPSA

Because in the place from which I have been conveyed hither, it used to be well with the worthless[*].

LYSIMACHUS
(aside.)

By my troth, her talk alone is worth more than the sum that she was purchased at.

(To PASICOMPSA.)

As though you would say that no woman is good.

PASICOMPSA

Indeed I don’t say so; nor is it my way, to say a thing which I believe all people are acquainted with.

LYSIMACHUS

I want to ask this one thing of you.

PASICOMPSA

I’ll answer you when you ask.

LYSIMACHUS

What say you now? What am I to say your name is?

PASICOMPSA

Pasicompsa.

LYSIMACHUS

The name was given you from your good looks[*]. But what say you, Pasicompsa? Can you, if occasion should arise, spin a fine woof?

PASICOMPSA

I can.

LYSIMACHUS

If you know how to do a fine one, I’m sure you can spin a coarser one.

PASICOMPSA

For spinning, I fear no woman that’s of the same age.

LYSIMACHUS

Upon my faith, I take it that you are good and industrious, since, young woman, now that you are grown up, you know how to do your duty.

PASICOMPSA

I’ faith, I learned it from a skilful mistress. I won’t let my work be called in question.

LYSIMACHUS

Well, thus the matter stands, i’ faith. Look now, I’ll give you a sheep for your own, one sixty years old.

PASICOMPSA

My good old gentleman, one so old as that?

LYSIMACHUS

It’s of the Grecian breed. If you take care of it, it is a very good one; it is shorn very easily.

PASICOMPSA

For the sake of the compliment, whatever it is that shall be given me, I shall receive it with thanks.

LYSIMACHUS

Now, damsel, that you mayn’t be mistaken, you are not mine; so don’t think it.

PASICOMPSA

Prithee, tell me, then, whose I am?

LYSIMACHUS

You’ve been bought back for your own master.

I’ve bought you back for him[*]; he requested me to do so.

PASICOMPSA

My spirits have returned, if good faith is kept with me.

LYSIMACHUS

Be of good courage; this person will give you your liberty. I’ troth, he did so dote upon you this day as soon as ever he had seen you.

PASICOMPSA

I’ faith, it’s now two years since he commenced his connexion with me. Now, as I’m sure that you are a friend of his, I’ll disclose it.

LYSIMACHUS

How say you? Is it now two years since he formed the connexion with you?

PASICOMPSA

Certainly, it is; and we agreed, on oath, between ourselves, I with him, and he with me, that I would never have intercourse with any man except himself, nor he with any woman except myself.

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