Would you know for certain? SCELEDRUS I should like to.PERIPLECOMENUS Go you this instant into your own house: see whether your lady is within.SCELEDRUS Very well: you’ve advised me rightly. I’ll be out again to you this instant. Goes into the CAPTAIN’S house. PERIPLECOMENUS I’ faith, I never saw any man more cleverly fooled, and by more singular devices. But here he is coming.

Enter SCLEDRUS from the CAPTAIN’s house.SCELEDRUS Periplecomenus, by Gods and men, and by my own folly, and by your knees! I do beseech you—PERIPLECOMENUS What now? SCELEDRUS Pardon my ignorance and my folly; now, at length, I know that I am half-witted, blind, and thoughtless; for, behold! Philocomasium is at home.PERIPLECOMENUS How, then, hang-dogHang-dog: Furcifer.Literally, bearer of the furca. Slaves are repeatedly thus called in these plays, as, by way of punishment for their misdeeds, they were compelled to carry a furca, or two pieces of wood shaped like the letter V, round their necks, with their hands tied to the ends of the instrument.. Have you seen them both?SCELEDRUS I have seen them.