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Dav. You know not him on whom you play these pranks.

You think if Chremes saw before these gates

That baby, that he would not give his daughter.

He would give her the more quickly.

Chr. Hercle, no!

That would I not.

Dav. Now, I tell you what—

If you don't take him off at once, I'll roll

Him in the street, and you into the gutter.

Mys. Pol, you are drunk!

Dav. One roguery, you see,

Capped by another; now the rumour runs

She is a citizen of Attica.

Chr. Hem!

Dav. And consequently, by the law, his wife.

Mys. Ah! I beseech you, is she not his wife?

Chr. Faith, I have nearly been the laughing-stock

Of all the town.

Dav. Who speaks? O Chremes, here!

You come when needed.

Chr. I have heard it all.

Dav. What, heard it all?

Chr. Commencement to the end.

Dav. What heard it all? The wicked one! we must

Have her interrogated on the cross.

You thought that you were only fooling me,

But he was here.

Mys. Unhappy I! My master,

I told the truth.

Chr. I know it all, I know—

Is Simo now within?

Dav. Simo is now within.