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What is this I see, ye wretched old men? Honest and pious folk ye cannot be who act so vilely.

Ah, ha! here’s something new! a swarm of women stand posted outside to defend the gates!

Ah! ah! we frighten you, do we; we seem a mighty host, yet you do not see the ten-thousandth part of our sex.

Ho, Phædrias! shall we stop their cackle? Suppose one of us were to break a stick across their backs, eh?

Let us set down our water-pots on the ground, to be out of the way, if they should dare to offer us violence.

Let. someone knock out two or three teeth for them, as they did to Bupalus; they won’t talk so loud then.

Come on then; I wait you with unflinching foot, and I will snap off your testicles like a bitch.

Silence! ere my stick has cut short your days.

Now, just you dare to touch Stratyllis with the tip of your finger!