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In the meantime if you have any favours to ask of us

We have: but we would like to speak a little more in private.

Retire a little from our presence. (They retire.) Now you can express your desires without any reserve.

There will be no reserve on our part—our only fear is that you might think restraint necessary for yourself.

Oh no, you need have no scruples on that score.

Come, then, do us honagehomage [sic] by placing your head on the ground before us.