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Phormio; or, The Scheming Parasite (765-793b)

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No one shall know it from me.
CHREMES
Follow me; in-doors we’ll hear the rest. (He goes into DEMIPHO’S house, followed by SOPHRONA.)
766
(Enter DEMIPHO and GETA.)
DEMIPHO
’Tis caused by our own fault, that it is advantageous to be dishonest; while we wish ourselves to be styled very honest and generous. So run away as not to run beyond the house,[*] as the saying is. Was it not enough to receive an injury from him, but money must be voluntarily offered him as well,
that he may have something on which to subsist while he plans some other piece of roguery?
GETA
Most clearly so.
DEMIPHO
They now get rewarded for it, who confound right with wrong.
GETA
Most undoubtedly.
DEMIPHO
How very foolishly, in fact, we have managed the affair with him!
GETA
If by these means we can only manage for him to marry her.
DEMIPHO
Is that, then, a matter of doubt?
GETA
I’ faith, judging from what the fellow is, I don’t know whether he mightn’t change his mind.
DEMIPHO
How! change it indeed?
GETA
I don’t know: but if perhaps, I say.
DEMIPHO
I’ll do as my brother advised me, bring hither his wife, to talk with her. Do you, Geta, go before; tell her that Nausistrata is about to visit her. (DEMIPHO goes into the house of CHREMES.)
GETA
The money’s been got for Phaedria; it’s all hushed about the lawsuit; due care has been taken that she’s not to leave for the present. What next, then?
What’s to be done? You are still sticking in the mud. You are paying by borrowing;[*] the evil that was at hand, has been put off for a day. The toils are increasing upon you, if you don’t look out. Now I’ll away home, and tell Phanium not to be afraid of Nausistrata, or his talking.[*]
(Goes into the house of DEMIPHO.)
784
(Enter DEMIPHO and NAUSISTRATA, from the house of CHREMES.)
DEMIPHO
Come now, Nausistrata, after your usual way, manage to keep her in good-humor with us,
and make her do of her own accord what must be done.
NAUSISTRATA
I will.
DEMIPHO
You are now seconding me with your endeavors, just as you assisted me with your money[*] before.
NAUSISTRATA
I wish to do so; and yet, i’ faith, through the fault of my husband, I am less able than I ought to be.
DEMIPHO
Why so?
NAUSISTRATA
Because, i’ faith, he takes such indifferent care of the property that was so industriously acquired by my father; for from those farms he used regularly to receive two talents of silver yearly; there’s an instance, how superior one man is to another.
DEMIPHO
Two talents, pray?
NAUSISTRATA
Aye, and when things were much worse, two talents even.
DEMIPHO
Whew!
NAUSISTRATA
What! does this seem surprising?
DEMIPHO
Of course it does.
NAUSISTRATA
I wish I had been born a man; I’d have shown—
DEMIPHO
That I’m quite sure of.

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