Why? STAPHYLA Because I don’t see any wine brought. STROBILUS Why, that will be brought just now, when he himself comes back from the market. STAPHYLA There’s no firewood here in our house. LYCONIDES There are the beams. STAPHYLA I’ faith, there are. LYCONIDES There is wood, then; don’t you be seeking it out of doors. STAPHYLA What, you unpurified fellow You unpurified fellow : Impurate. You that are unpurified, in spite of your everlastingly stewing over the fire. She alludes, figuratively, to the process of smelting and purifying metals by the action of fire. , although your business is with the fire, for the sake of a dinner, or of your own hire, do you request us to set our house on fire?