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Phormio; or, The Scheming Parasite (740-763b)

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Look round at me.
SOPHRONA
(seeing him.)
Ye Gods, I do beseech you, isn’t this Stilpho?
CHREMES
No.
SOPHRONA
Do you deny it?
CHREMES
(in a low voice.)
Step a little this way from that door, Sophrona, if you please (pointing). Don’t you, henceforth, be calling me by that name.
SOPHRONA
Why? Pray, are you not the person you always used to say you were?
CHREMES
Hush! (pointing to his own house.)
SOPHRONA
Why are you afraid about that door?
CHREMES
(in a low voice.)
I have got a shrew of a wife shut up there. For by that name I formerly
falsely called myself, in order that you might not chance indiscreetly to blab it out of doors, and then my wife, by some means or other, might come to know of it.
SOPHRONA
I’ faith, that’s the very reason why we, wretched creatures, have never been able to find you out here.
CHREMES
Well, but tell me, what business have you with that family from whose house you were coming out? Where are the ladies?[*]
SOPHRONA
Ah, wretched me!
CHREMES
Hah! What’s the matter? Are they still alive?
SOPHRONA
Your daughter is alive.
Her poor mother died of grief.
CHREMES
An unfortunate thing!
SOPHRONA
As for me, being a lone old woman, in want, and unknown, I contrived, as well as I could, to get the young woman married to the young man who is master of this house (pointing).
CHREMES
What! to Antipho?
SOPHRONA
The very same, I say.
CHREMES
What? Has he got two wives?
SOPHRONA
Dear no, prithee, he has only got this one.
CHREMES
What about the other one that’s called his relative?
SOPHRONA
Why, this is she.
CHREMES
What is it you say?
SOPHRONA
It was done on purpose, in order that her lover might be enabled to marry her without a portion.
CHREMES
Ye Gods, by our trust in you! How often do those things come about through accident, which you couldn’t dare to hope for? On my return, I have found my daughter matched with the very person I wished, and just as I wanted;
a thing that we were both using our endeavors, with the greatest earnestness, to bring about. Without any very great management on our part, by her own management, she has by herself brought this about.
SOPHRONA
Now consider what’s to be done. The young man’s father has returned, and they say that he bears this with feelings highly offended.
CHREMES
There’s no danger of that. But, by Gods and men, do take care that no one comes to know that she’s my daughter.

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