Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN’S house.
Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN’S house.
PALAESTRIO
to PHILOCOMASIUM. Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?
PHILOCOMASIUM
What can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.
PALAESTRIO
See, there’s the man that has come from your mother and sister. (pointing to PLEUSICLES.)
PHILOCOMASIUM
I see him.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Palaestrio, do you hear?
PALAESTRIO
What is your pleasure?
PYRGOPOLINICES
Aren’t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?
PLEUSICLES
Health to you, Philocomasium.
PHILOCOMASIUM
And health to you.
PHILOCOMASIUM
Heaven prosper them.
PLEUSICLES
They beg you to set out, so that, while the wind is fair, they may set sail. But if your mother’s eyes had been well, she would have come[1] together with me.
PHILOCOMASIUM
I’ll go; although I do it with regret-duty compels me.
PLEUSICLES
You act wisely.
PYRGOPOLINICES
If she had not been passing her life with myself, this day she would have been a blockhead.
PHILOCOMASIUM
I am distracted at this, that I am estranged from such a man. For you are able to make any woman what-ever abound in wit; and because I was living with you, for that reason I was of a very lofty spirit. I see that I must lose that loftiness of mind. Pretends to cry.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Don’t weep.
PHILOCOMASIUM
I can’t help it when I look upon you.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Be of good courage.
PHILOCOMASIUM
I know what pain it is to me.
PALAESTRIO
I really don’t wonder now, Philocomasium, if you were here with happiness to yourself, when I, a servant–as I look at him, weep because we are parting pretends to cry, so much have his beauty, his manners, his valour, captivated your feelings.
PHILOCOMASIUM
Prithee, do let me embrace you before I depart?
PYRGOPOLINICES
By all means
PHILOCOMASIUM
embracing him. O my eyes! O my life!
PALAESTRIO
Do hold up the woman, I entreat you, lest she should fall. He takes hold of her, and she pretends to faint.
PYRGOPOLINICES
What means this?
PALAESTRIO
Because, after she had quitted you, she suddenly became faint, poor thing.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Run in and fetch some water.
PALAESTRIO
I want no water, but I had rather you would keep at a distance. Prithee, don’t you interfere till she comes to.
PYRGOPOLINICES
observing PLEUSICLES, who is holding PHILOCOMASIUM in his arm. They have their heads too closely in contact between them; I don’t like it; he is soldering his lips[2] to hers.
PLEUSICLES
I was trying whether she was breathing or not.
PYRGOPOLINICES
You ought to have applied your ear then.
PLEUSICLES
If you had rather, I’ll let her go.
PYRGOPOLINICES
No, I don’t care; do you support her.
PALAESTRIO
To my misery, I’m quite distracted.
PYRGOPOLINICES
Go and bring here from in-doors all the things that I have given her.
PALAESTRIO
And even now, household God, do I salute thee before I depart; my fellow-servants, both male and female, all farewell, and happy may you live; prithee, though absent, among yourselves bestow