Behold us here obedient to your call. PALAESTRIO The sway is easy over the good. But I wish to know, if we are to carry out the matter on the same plan that we formed within?PERIPLECOMENUS Why, in fact there’s nothing can be more conducive to our purpose. Well, what say you, Pleusicles?PLEUSICLES Can that displease me which pleases yourselves? What person is there more my friend than your own self?PERIPLECOMENUS You speak kindly and obligingly. PALAESTRIO Faith, and so he ought to do.PLEUSICLES But this affair shockingly distresses me, and torments my very heart and body.PERIPLECOMENUS What is it that torments you? Tell me.PLEUSICLES That I should cause childish actions in a person of your years, and that I should require of you deeds that neither become yourself nor your virtues; and that, with all your might, for my sake you are striving to aid me in my passion, and are doing actions of such a kind, as, when done, these years of yours are wont rather to avoid than follow. I am ashamed that I cause you this trouble in your old age.PERIPLECOMENUS You are a person in love after a new fashion. If, in fact, you are ashamed of anything you do, you are nothing of a lover. You are rather the shadow of those who are in love, than a true lover, Pleusicles.