Sceledrus, Sceledrus, what one man is there on earth more impudent than yourself? Who more than yourself has been born with the Deities hostile and enraged?SCELEDRUS What’s the matter? PALAESTRIO Do you want those eyes of yours gouged out, with which you see what never existed?SCELEDRUS How, what never existed? PALAESTRIO I would not buy your life at the price of a rotten nut.SCELEDRUS Why, what’s the matter? PALAESTRIO What’s the matter, do you ask?SCELEDRUS And why shouldn’t I ask? PALAESTRIO Why don’t you beg for that tongue of yours to be cut out, that prates so at random?SCELEDRUS Why should I beg for that?