Why so? LIBANUSBecause your eyes are filled with tears; ’twas for that reason I asked.ARGYRIPPUSOne who would have been a protector to you, you have lost.LIBANUSI’ faith, I surely haven’t lost one; for this reason, be cause I never had one.LEONIDAHealth to you, Philenium.PHILENIUMWhat you desire, the Gods will give you.LIBANUSI could desire your favours, and a cask of wine, if wishes were to come to pass.ARGYRIPPUSWhip-knave, beware how you speak a word.LIBANUSWhy, ’tis for you, not for myself, I wish it.ARGYRIPPUSFor that reason, then, say on what you please.LIBANUS(pointing to LEONIDA.)Troth, I’d like to give him a beating.LEONIDAWho, pray, would allow you to do so, you frizzle- patedYou frizzle-pated: Calamistrate means dressed with the calamistrum, a crisping-pin, or iron tube with which the hair was curled. mountebank? Could you thrash me, you, who reckon as your daily food your own thrashings?ARGYRIPPUSHow far superior, Libanus, are your lots to my own, who never will live this day until the evening.LIBANUSFor what reason, prithee? ARGYRIPPUS(pointing to PHILENIUM.)Because I’m in love with her, and she’s in love with me, and nowhere have I anything to bestow upon her; for that reason has her mother expelled me with all my affection from her house. The twenty minae of silver have brought me to my end, which the young man, Diabolus, declared that he would give her this day, in order that she mightn’t send her anywhere, for this whole year, except to himself. Don’t you see of what force are twenty minae of silver, or what they can effect? The man who parts with them is happy; I, who part not with them, am undone.