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Persa, or The Persian (23-44)

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Why, that’s your old line of service.
SAGARISTIO
Have you been quite well all along?
TOXILUS
Not very.
SAGARISTIO
I’ faith, it’s with reason then you are so pale.
TOXILUS
I’ve been wounded in the battles of Venus;
Cupid has pierced my heart with his arrow.
SAGARISTIO
Do servants then fall in love here?
TOXILUS
Why, what could I do? Was I to be struggling against the Gods? Was I, like the sons of Titan, to be waging war with the Deities, with whom I am not quite able to cope?
SAGARISTIO
Do you only take care that catapultae made of elm[*] don’t pierce your sides.
TOXILUS
In right royal manner I’m celebrating the feast of Freedom[*].
SAGARISTIO
How so?
TOXILUS
Because my master’s gone abroad.
SAGARISTIO
Do you say so?
Is he gone abroad?
TOXILUS
If you can bear to be enjoying yourself, do you come: you shall live with me; you shall be treated with right royal entertainment.
SAGARISTIO
Out upon it (rubbing himself.) my shoulder-blades are quite itching now, because I’ve heard you mention these things.
TOXILUS
But this one thing is torturing me.
SAGARISTIO
Why, what is it?
TOXILUS
This day is the very last day, to determine whether my mistress is to be free, or whether she is to endure lasting servitude.
SAGARISTIO
What, then, do you now desire?
TOXILUS
You have it in your power to make me your friend for ever.
SAGARISTIO
In what way?
TOXILUS
In lending me six hundred didrachms, for me to pay the same for her freedom, which I will forthwith refund you in the next three or four days. Come, do be good-natured; give me your help.
SAGARISTIO
With what assurance, you impudent fellow, do you venture to ask so much money of me?
Why, if I myself were to be sold all in one lot, it’s hardly possible for as much to be received as you are asking me for; for now you are asking for water from a pumice-stone, which is all a-dry itself.
TOXILUS
Ought you to be treating me in this fashion?
SAGARISTIO
What am I to do?
TOXILUS
Do you ask the question? Beg it on loan from somebody.
SAGARISTIO
You do the same as you are asking me.
TOXILUS
I’ve been trying; I’ve found it nowhere.

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