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Persa, or The Persian (219-233b)

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On my honor you shall never this day know before I’ve heard it of you.
PAEGNIUM
Is such the fact?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Is such the fact?
PAEGNIUM
You are a worthless one.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Rogue.
PAEGNIUM
That befits me.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Me then it does not befit.
PAEGNIUM
What do you say? Are you quite determined, you hussy, to conceal whither you are going?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
And are you quite resolved to hide whither you are betaking yourself, you scoundrel?
PAEGNIUM
You are giving answer to what I say like for like; be off with you then, since such is your determination. I don’t care at all to know. Good-bye.
(Moving.)
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Stop!
PAEGNIUM
But I’m in a hurry.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
And, i’ faith, I as well.
PAEGNIUM
Have you got anything?
(Pointing to her hand.)
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Have you anything?
(Pointing likewise.)
PAEGNIUM
Really nothing whatever.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Show me your hand then.
PAEGNIUM
(showing his right hand.)
Is this the hand?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Where is that other, the pilfering left hand?
PAEGNIUM
(hiding his left hand.)
Why, it is at home, d’ye see; I’ve not brought one hither.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
(trying to seize his hand.)
You’ve got something, what it is I know not.
PAEGNIUM
(pushing her away.)
Don’t be mauling me about you she-groper.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
But suppose I’m in love with you.
PAEGNIUM
You employ your pains to no purpose.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Why so?
PAEGNIUM
Why, because you are in love with nothing at all, when you are in love with one who doesn’t return it.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
It befits these youthful looks and age to be on the watch for pleasure in good time;
so that, when your hair comes to change its hue, you may not be always in a grovelling servitude. Why, really, as yet you are not eighty pounds in weight.
PAEGNIUM
Still, that warfare is waged much more successfully by spirit than by weight. But I’m losing my pains.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Why so?

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