Are you not aware that you are done for?SCELEDRUS Now, indeed, I’m sure she is at home; I am now resolved to watch our door, wheresoever she may be. Places himself at the door. PALAESTRIO But, prithee, Sceledrus, how very like the dream she dreamt to what has happened; and how you really did believe that you had seen her kissing. SCELEDRUS And do you suppose that I didn’t see her?PALAESTRIO I’ faith, I verily believe you’ll come to your senses when ’tis too late. If this matter should only reach our master, you certainly are undone.SCELEDRUS Now, at length, I find out that there was a mist placed before my eyes.PALAESTRIO I’ faith, that really has been plain for some time now; as she was here in-doors all the while.SCELEDRUS Not a word of certainty have I to utter; I did not see her, although I did see her.PALAESTRIO By my troth, through this folly of yours you certainly have nearly ruined us; while you have wished to prove yourself faithful to your master, you have been almost undone. But the door of our next neighbour makes a noise; I’ll be silent.
Enter PHILOCOMASIUMSceledrus having been duly prepared, Philocomasium appears as her twin-sister, who is supposed to have come the day before from Athens to Ephesus, and gives directions about returning thanks for having landed in safety. As the circumstance of the communication between the houses is known to the Audience, and is not suspected by Sceledrus, his embarrassment is highly diverting, and very cleverly depicted., dressed in another habit, from the house of PERIPLECOMENUS.PHILOCOMASIUMto a servant SERVANT. Put fire on the altar, that in my joy I may return praises and thanks to Diana of Ephesus, and that I may send up for her a grateful smoke with odours of Arabia: she who has preserved me in the realms of Neptune and amid the boisterous templesBoisterous temples
: In the language of the Poets, Neptune and the inferior Sea Divinities are supposed to have their temples and abodes in the sea and rivers., where with raging billows I have been so recently dismayed.