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Mercator, or The Merchant (964b-989a)

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What’s the matter?
EUTYCHUS
Your wife is peaceful and appeased. Give me your right hands this moment.
(Shakes hands with them both.)
LYSIMACHUS
The Gods are favouring me.
EUTYCHUS
(to DEMIPHO.)
I bring you word that you have got no mistress.
DEMIPHO
The Gods confound you. Why, prithee, what affair is this?
EUTYCHUS
I’ll tell you. Give your attention then, both of you.
LYSIMACHUS
Well then, we are giving you our attention, both of us.
EUTYCHUS
Those who are born of a good family, if they are of bad tendencies,
by their own faultiness withdraw nobleness from their rank, and disgrace their disposition.
DEMIPHO
He says what’s true.
LYSIMACHUS
Then it’s to yourself he says it.
EUTYCHUS
For this reason is this the more true; for at this time of life, it wasn’t just for you to take away from your son, a young man, his mistress, purchased with his own money.
DEMIPHO
How say you? Is she the mistress of Charinus?
EUTYCHUS
(aside.)
How the rogue does dissemble.
DEMIPHO
Why, he said that he had bought her as a maidservant for his mother.
EUTYCHUS
Was it for that reason, then, you bought her, you young lover, you old boy?
LYSIMACHUS
Very well said, i’ troth! Proceed, proceed. I’ll stand by him here on the other side. Let’s both load him well with such speeches as he’s worthy of.
DEMIPHO
(aside.)
I’m done for.
EUTYCHUS
Who has done an injustice so great to his blameless son;
whom, in fact, upon my faith, I brought back home just when he was setting out in self-banishment; for he was going into exile.
DEMIPHO
Has he gone then?
LYSIMACHUS
What, do you speak, you hobgoblin? At this time of life you ought to abstain from those pursuits.
DEMIPHO
I confess it; undoubtedly I’ve acted wrong.
EUTYCHUS
What, do you speak, you hobgoblin? You ought at this time of life to have done with these guilty practices. Just as the seasons of the year, so different lines of conduct befit different ages;
but if this is proper, that old fellows should be wenching in their old age, where in the world is our common welfare?
DEMIPHO
Alas! wretch that I am! I’m undone.
EUTYCHUS
The young men are more in the habit of giving their attention to following those pursuits.
DEMIPHO
Troth, now, prithee, do take her to yourselves, with pigs and with basket[*].
EUTYCHUS
Restore her to your son;
let him have her, now, as he wishes.

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