Make yourself easy; you shall receive him back a clever sophist.Strepsiades.Nay, rather, pale and wretched.Exeunt Socrates, Strepsiades, and Phidippides.

Chorus.Go ye, then: but I think that you will repent of these proceedings.

Chorus.We wish to speak about the judges, what they will gain, if at all they justly assist this Chorus. For in the first place, if you wish to plough up your fields in spring, we will rain for you first; but for the others afterward. And then we will protect the fruits, and the vines,