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Persa, or The Persian (233c-247)

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Because I’m teaching those who know it all. But I’m loitering here.
(Moves.)
SOPHOCLIDISCA
(taking hold of him.)
Do stop.
PAEGNIUM
You are annoying to me.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
And so I shall be then, if I don’t find out whither you are betaking yourself.
PAEGNIUM
To your house.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
And I to your house, i’ faith.
PAEGNIUM
Why thither?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
What’s that to you?
PAEGNIUM
(standing before her.)
Why, you shan’t go now, unless, in return, I know.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
You are teazing.
PAEGNIUM
I choose to.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Never, upon my faith, shall you wring this out of me, so as to prove yourself more artful than I am.
PAEGNIUM
It’s a misery to contend with you in artfulness.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
You are a mischievous baggage.
PAEGNIUM
What is there for you to fear?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
The very same that there is for you.
PAEGNIUM
Say then, what is it?
SOPHOCLIDISCA
But I’m forbidden to tell this to any person, and am instructed that all the dumb people are to speak of it before myself.
PAEGNIUM
And most especially was I cautioned not to trust this to any person, so that all the dumb people were to mention this before myself.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Still, do you do so; on giving our words, let’s trust each other.
PAEGNIUM
I know this—all procuresses are light of faith, and the weight of a water-gnat[*] is not more light than is the word of a procurer.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Tell me, there’s a dear.
PAEGNIUM
Tell me, there’s a dear.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
I don’t want to be your dear.
PAEGNIUM
You’ll easily prevail upon me in that.
SOPHOCLIDISCA
Keep it yourself.
PAEGNIUM
And you be mum about this.
(Showing her a letter.)
SOPHOCLIDISCA
It shall be kept a secret.
PAEGNIUM
It shall not be known.
(She shows him a letter.)
SOPHOCLIDISCA
I’m carrying this letter to Toxilus, your master.

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