ee days? Whither
are you going now?

DOR. I was wondering if you had any thing new to offer.

ANT. (_apart, to GETA._) I'm afraid for this Procurer, lest----

GETA (_apart, to ANTIPHO._) Something may befall his own safety.[59]

PHAED. You don't believe me?

DOR. You guess right.

PHAED. But if I pledge my word.

DOR. Nonsense!

PHAED. You will have reason to say that this kindness was well laid out
by you on interest.

DOR. Stuff!

PHAED. Believe me, you will be glad you did so; upon my faith, it is
the truth.

DOR. {Mere} dreams!

PHAED. Do but try; the time is not long.

DOR. The same story over again.

PHAED. You {will be} my kinsman, my father, my friend; you----

DOR. Now, do prate on.

PHAED. For you to be of a disposition so harsh and inexorable, that
neither by pity nor by entreaties can you be softened!

DOR. For you to be of a disposition so unreasonable and so
unconscionable, Phaedria, that you can be talking me over with fine
words,[60] and be for amusing yourself with what's my property for
nothing!

ANT. (_apart, to GETA._) I am sorry for him.

PHAED. (_aside._) Alas! I feel it to be too true.

GETA (_apart, to ANTIPHO._) How well each keeps up to his character!

PHAED. (_to himself._) And would that this misfortune had not befallen
me at a time when Antipho was occupied with other cares as well.

ANT. (_coming forward._) Ah Phaedria, why, what is the matter?

PHAED. O most fortunate Antipho!

ANT. What, I?

PHAED. To have in your possession the object of your love, and have no
occasion to encounter such a nuisance as this.

ANT. What I, in my possession? Why yes, as the saying is, I've got a
wolf by the ears;[61] for I neither know how to get rid of her, nor
yet how to keep her.

DOR. That's just my case with regard to him (_pointing to PHAEDRIA_).

ANT. (_to DORIO._) Aye, aye, don't you show too little of the
Procurer. (_To PHAEDRIA._) What has he been doing?

PHAED. What, he? Acting the part of a most inhuman fellow; been and
sold my Pamphila.

GETA. What! Sold her?

ANT. Sold her, say you?

PHAED. Sold her.

DOR. (_ironically._) What a shocking crime-- a wench bought with one's
own money!

PHAED. I can not prevail upon him to wait for me the next three days,
and {so far} break off the bargain with the person, while I get the
money from my friends, which has been promised {me}; if I don't give
it him then, let him not wait a single hour longer.

DOR. Ve