What do you want? EUCLIO Lay it down. STROBILUS Troth, for my part, I think that you are in the habit In the habit : The real meaning of the author in this line is so indelicate, that it requires another turn to be given to the passage. of quizzing, old gentleman. EUCLIO Put that down, please; cease your quibbling; I’m not trifling now. STROBILUS What am I to put down? Why don’t you mention it, whatever it is, by its own name? By my faith, I really have neither taken nor touched anything. EUCLIO Show me your hands, here. STROBILUS Well, I do show them; see, here they are. (Holdinq out his hands.) EUCLIO I see them. Come, show me the third Show me the third : This passage has been considered as extravagant; but it really does not appear inconsistent with the ridiculous conduct of the wretched Euclio throughout. Thornton supposes that the following passage in the old play of Albumazar, Act III., Sc. 8 (where Trinculo questions Ronca about the purse, which the latter has stolen from him), is an imitation of this passage: Trin. Show me your hand. Ron. Here ’tis. Trin. But where’s the other? Ron. Why, here. Trin. But I mean, where’s your other hand? Ron. Think you me the giant with an hundred hands? Trin. Give me your right. Ron. My right? Trin. Your left? Ron. My left? Trin. Now both. Ron. There’s both, my dear Antonio , as well.