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Here! and this into the bargain (strikes him).

You will not give me any meat?

We cannot give you any until the wolf unites with the sheep.

I will embrace your knees.

’Tis lost labour, good fellow; you will never smooth the rough spikes of the hedgehog. Come, spectators, join us in our feast.

And what am I to do?

You? go and eat the Sibyl.

No, by the Earth! no, you shall not eat without me; if you do not give, I take; ’tis common property.

Strike, strike this Bacis, this humbugging soothsayer.

I take to witness

And I also, that you are a glutton and an impostor. Hold him tight and beat the impostor with a stick.