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SCENE IV.--_Enter_ SIMO.
THEU. What are you about?
SIM. I'm coming home from the Forum.
THEU. Has anything new been going on at the Forum to-day?
SIM. Why yes. THEU. What is it, pray?
SIM. I saw a dead man being carried to burial.
THEU. Dear me! that is something new!
SIM. I saw one who was dead being carried out to burial [1]. They said
that he had been alive but just before.
THEU. Woe to that head of yours _for your nonsense_!
SIM. Why are you, _thus_ idling about, enquiring after the news?
THEU. Because I've just arrived from abroad.
SIM. I'm engaged out to dine: don't suppose I shall invite you [2].
THEU. I' faith, I don't want.
SIM. But, to-morrow, unless any person invites me first, I'll even dine
with you.
THEU. I' faith, and that, too, I don't want. Unless you are engaged
_with something_ of greater importance, lend me your attention.
SIM. By all means. THEU. You have received, as far as I understand,
forty minae of Philolaches.
SIM. Never a coin, so far as I know.
THEU. What? _Not_ from my servant Tranio?
SIM. Much less _is_ that _the case_.
THEU. Which he gave you by way of deposit?
SIM. What are you dreaming about?
THEU. What, I? Why, really, 'tis yourself, who hope that, by dissembling
in this manner, you'll be able to make void this bargain.
SIM. Why, what _do you mean_? THEU. The business that, in my
absence, my son transacted with you here.
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