Whither are you betaking yourself? LUCRIO I am sent elsewhere: I’ll come back here just now.PALAESTRIO Who has sent you? LUCRIO Philocomasium.PALAESTRIO Go; be back directly. LUCRIO If it is divided, prithee do you only take my share of the punishment while I’m away. (Exit LUCRIO.)

PALAESTRIO, alone.PALAESTRIO So—I understand what scheme the lady is upon. Because Sceledrus is asleep, she has sent her under-keeper away out of doors, whilst she may pass from our house to next door. That’s all right. Looks down the street. But Periplecomenus is bringing here a woman of very comely appearance, her, for whom I commissioned him. By my faith, the Gods are helping us in this matter. How becomingly drest she struts alongShe struts along: By the use of the word incedit, he probably refers to the assumed stateliness of her gait., not like a Courtesan. This business is prospering charmingly in our hands. Stands aside.

Enter PERIPLECOMENUS, with ACROTELEUTIUM and MILPHIDIPPA.PERIPLECOMENUSas he advances. I have explained the whole affair, Acroteleutium, to you, and, Milphidippa, to you as well. If you don’t well understand this device and plan, I wish you to hear it all over again. If you comprehend it aright, there is something else that we may speak of in preference. ACROTELEUTIUM I’ faith, it would be folly, and ignorance, and foolishness, for me to engage in the service of another, or to promise you my assistance, if, in its fabrication, I did not know how to be either mischievous or clever at deceiving.PERIPLECOMENUS But, ’tis better for you to be instructed.