<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.phi020.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="2"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="2"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="259" part="I">Health to you.</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="259b" part="F">Enow of thy health have I; I care nought for’t, I’ve got no health;</l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" n="260">I’d rather be sick, than be a bit the sounder with health from thee. This I want to know, what’s owing thee here in our house?</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="262" part="I">Do keep close—</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="262b" part="F">Yea, faith, to my own good woman I trust; let him keep close to thee whose habit ’tis. A rare fine joke! a silly hussy to be tempting a countryman to naughty tricks.</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="264">Keep close your anger, I meant.</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="264a" part="Y">As thee’st begun with me, so I’d e’en lay a wager<note resp="editor"><q rend="double">Lay a wager</q>: The meaning of this passage seems to be, <q rend="double">according to the way you have begun, I’d lay a wager your equal can’t be found;</q> but the passage seems hopelessly corrupt, though a dozen different readings have been suggested.</note> there’s not another like thee.<note resp="perseus">Part of line 264 in the Latin. The purported pun on <q rend="double">eiram</q> and <q rend="double">iram</q> is not captured by this translator.</note> </l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><lb/><stage>(half to herself.)</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="265" part="I">Really this fellow’s very churlish.</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="265b" part="F">Woman, dost thee go on abusing me?</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="266" part="I">Why, what did I say to you?</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>