SCENE VI.
George Colman translation
Enter Chremes tipsy.
Chrem. So! so!—I’m in for’t—and the wine I’ve drank
Has made me reel again.—Yet while I sat,
How sober I suppos’d myself!—But I
No sooner rose, than neither foot, nor head,
Knew their own business!
Pyth. Chremes!
Chrem. Who’s that?—Ha!
Pythias!—How much more handsome you seem now,
Than you appear’d a little while ago!
Pyth. I’m sure you seem a good deal merrier.
Chrem. I’faith it’s an old saying, and a true one,
“Ceres and Bacchus are warm friends of Venus.”
—But, pray, has Thais been here long before me?
Pyth. Has she yet left the Captain’s?
Chrem. Long time since:
An age ago. They’ve had a bloody quarrel.
Pyth. Did not she bid you follow her?
Chrem. Not she:
Only she made a sign to me at parting.
Pyth. Well, wasn’t that enough?
Chrem. No, faith! I never
At all conceiv’d her meaning, till the Captain
Chrem. No, faith! I did not
At all conceive her meaning, till the Captain
Gave me the hint, and kick’d me out o’ doors!
—But here she is! I wonder how it was,
I overtook her!