<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg003.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="Lyric-Scene"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg003.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1135">For every one to whom I happen to be indebted, swears, and says he will ruin and destroy me, having made his deposits against me; though I only ask what is moderate and just—<q>My good sir, one part don’t take just now; the other part put off I pray; and the other part remit</q>; they say that thus </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg003.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1140">they will never get back their money, but abuse me, as I am unjust, and say they will go to law with me. Now therefore let them go to law, for it little concerns me, if Phidippides has learned to speak well. I shall soon know by knocking at the thinking-shop.</l><stage rend="italic">Knocks at the door.</stage><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg003.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="1145" part="I">Boy, I say! Boy, boy!</l></sp><stage rend="italic">Enter Socrates.</stage><sp><speaker>Socrates.</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg003.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" rend="align(indent)" n="1145b" part="F">Good morning, Strepsiades.</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>