<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.phi013.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="3"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="1"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" n="633" part="I">Say that you’ll pay it, that he may be off.</l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="633b" part="F">I, say that I’ll pay it?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="634" part="I">Do say so. </l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="634b" part="M">What, I?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="634c" part="F">You yourself. Do only say so. Do be guided by me. Do promise. Come now, I say; I beg of you.</l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="635b" part="F">Answer me; what has been done with this money?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="636b" part="M">It’s safe. </l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="636c" part="F">Pay it yourselves then, if it’s safe,</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="637b" part="F">Your son has bought a house.</l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="638b" part="M">A house? </l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="638c" part="M">A house.</l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="638d" part="F">Bravo! Philolaches is taking after his father! The fellow now turns to merchandize. </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" n="640" part="I">A house, say you?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="640b" part="F">A house, I tell you. But do you know of what sort?</l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="641" part="I">How can I know?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="641b" part="M">Out with you! </l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="641c" part="M">What’s the matter?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="641d" part="F">Don’t ask me that. </l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="642" part="I">But why so?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="642b" part="F">Bright as a mirror, pure brilliancy itself.</l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="643">Excellently done, upon my faith! Well, how much did he agree to give for it?</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="644">As many great talents as you and I put together make; </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" n="645">but these forty minae he paid by way of earnest. <stage>(Pointing to the BANKER.)</stage> From him he received what we paid the other man. Do you quite understand<note resp="editor"><q rend="double">Do you quite understand</q>: Warner suggests, that by using this expression before the Banker, he intends to make a secret of the house being haunted, and that he keeps up the mystery in the succeeding line.</note>? For after this house was in such a state as I mentioned to you, he at once purchased another house for himself.</l></sp><sp><speaker>THEUROPIDES</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="649_651" part="I">Excellently done, upon my faith!</l></sp><sp><speaker>A BANKER</speaker><lb/><stage>(touching TRANIO.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="649_651b" part="F">Hark you. Mid-day is now close at hand.</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="652">Prithee, do dismiss this puking fellow, that he mayn’t worry us to death. </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" n="631" part="I"><note resp="perseus">Appears to be a repeat of line 630 in the Latin continuing into the firt part of line 631.</note>Forty-four minae are due to him, both principal and interest.</l></sp><sp><speaker>A BANKER</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="631b" part="F">’Tis just that much; I ask for nothing more.</l></sp><sp><speaker>TRANIO</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi013.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="632">Upon my faith, I really could have wished that you had asked more, if only by a single coin.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>