One 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.LIBANUSHas he already paidHas he already paid: Jam dedit argentum? This is curiously rendered by Gueudeville, Ce Monsieur le Diable a-t-il d£ejà donn£e son argent? which, literally translated, is, Has this Mister Devil already paid his money? He appears to have taken a rather unwarranted liberty in translating the name Diabolus by the term le Diable—neither more nor less than the French name of his Satanic Majesty the money?ARGYRIPPUSHe hasn’t paid it. LIBANUSBe of good courage; don’t be afraid.LEONIDA(to LIBANUS.)Step this way, Libanus, I want you.LIBANUSCertainly, if you want anything.(Steps aside, putting his hand on the shoulder of LEONIDA.)ARGYRIPPUSI entreat of you, is it more pleasant in this same matter for you to discourse hugging one another?LIBANUSUnderstand, master, that all things are not equally sweet to all persons. ’Tis pleasant for you lovers to converse, hugging one another; I care nothing for his hugging (pointing to LEONIDA), and (pointing to PHILENIUM) she despises mine. Do you then yourself do that which you would be suggesting to us to do.ARGYRIPPUSIndeed I will, and really with pleasure, i’ faith. (Placing his arm round PHILENIUM’S neck.) In the meantime, if it seems good to you, do you step aside there.LEONIDA(to LIBANUS.)Should you like our master to be bantered a bit? LIBANUSHe really is deserving of it.LEONIDAShould you like me, in his presence, to make Philenium embrace me?LIBANUSI’ faith, I should like it. LEONIDAFollow me this way.(They join ARGYRIPPUS.)ARGYRIPPUSIs there any escape at all? Have you conversed enough?