Mercator
Translated by Henry Thomas Riley
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THE ACROSTIC ARGUMENT.
A YOUNG man, being sent by his father to traffic, buys a damsel of remarkable beauty, and brings her home. The old man, after he has seen her, makes enquiry who she is. The servant pretends that she has been bought by the son as an attendant for his mother. The old man falls in love with her, and pretending that he has sold her, gives her in the charge of his neighbour. His wife thinks that he has brought a mistress home. Then his friend stops Charinus in his flight, after he has discovered his mistress.
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