But the left one I mean.PLEUSICLES I’ll tell you. On account of the sea, I use this eye less; but if I kept away from the seaFrom the sea: There is a pun here, which cannot be preserved in the translation. Si abstinuissem a mareIf I kept away from the sea, may also be read, Si abstinuissem amare, If I refrained from loving. The Captain understands him in the former sense, thinking that he means that he has got a disease in his eye, which may be increased by leading a seafaring life., I should use the one like the other. But they are detaining me too long.PYRGOPOLINICES See, here they are coming out.

Enter PALAESTRIO and PHILOCOMASIUM from the CAPTAIN’S house.PALAESTRIOto PHILOCOMASIUM. Prithee, when will you this day make an end of your weeping?PHILOCOMASIUM What can I do but weep? I am going away hence where I have spent my days most happily.PALAESTRIO See, there’s the man that has come from your mother and sister pointing to PLEUSICLES.PHILOCOMASIUM I see him. PYRGOPOLINICES Palaestrio, do you hear?PALAESTRIO What is your pleasure? PYRGOPOLINICES Aren’t you ordering those presents to be brought out which I gave her?