to PASICOMPSA, within. I'll bring him to you directly, if I meet him.

behind. He's meaning me.

turning about. How say you, Demipho?

Is the damsel at your house?

What do you suppose?

What if I go see her? Moves towards the house.

Why making such haste? Stay.

What am I to do?

What you ought to do; take care and consider.

Consider what? Why troth, for my own part, I think there's need for my doing this, going in-doors there, I mean.

What, is it so, you old wether? Would you be going in?

What should I do else?

First listen to this, and attend; there's something even before this that I think it proper you should do. For if you now go in-doors to her, you'll be wishing to embrace her, chatting with her, and kissing her.

Really you know my feelings; you understand what I would be at.

You will be doing wrong.

What, with that which you love?

So much the less reason. Would you, full of hungriness, with a foul breath, a stinking old fellow, be kissing a woman? And wouldn't you, as you approached, be setting a female vomiting?

I' faith, I'm sure that you're in love, as you point out these things beforehand to me. What then, if I give a dinner? If you approve of this, let's lay hold of some cook, who may be cooking away a meal Cooking away a meal: "Prandium" here does not mean the morning meal, similar to our breakfast, but a "feast" or "banquet in general. here at your house, even until the evening.

Well, I'm of that way of thinking. Now you are talking wisely, and like a lover.

Why are we standing here? Why then don't we be off and procure the provisions, that we may be comfortable?

For my part, I'll follow you. And, i' troth, you'll be finding out a lodging for her, if you are prudent; for, i' faith, she shan't be at my house a single day beyond the present; I'm afraid of my wife, lest, if she should return from the country to-morrow, she'll be finding her here. (Exeunt.)