Besides it is very likely that increase of
years and slavery have completely changed him.
LEL. That is true. But pray, if he should remember my face, what must I
do then?
MASC. Have you no memory at all? I told you just now, that he has merely
seen you for a minute, that therefore you could only have produced a
very transient impression on his mind; besides, your beard and dress
disguise you completely.
LEL. Very well. But, now I think of it, what part of Turkey...?
MASC. It is all the same, I tell you, Turkey or Barbary.
LEL. But what is the name of the town I saw them in?
MASC. Tunis. I think he will keep me till night. He tells me it is
useless to repeat that name so often, and I have already mentioned it a
dozen times.
LEL. Go, go in and prepare matters; I want nothing more.
MASC. Be cautious at least, and act wisely. Let us have none of your
inventions here.
LEL. Let me alone! Trust to me, I say, once more.
MASC. Observe, Horatio, a schoolboy in Bologna; Trufaldin, his true name
Zanobio Ruberti, a citizen of Naples; the tutor was called Alberto...
LEL. You make me blush by preaching so much to me; do you think I am a
fool?
MASC. No, not completely, but something very like it.
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