Nay, not to punish you, or to blame you at all on account of this business. And with some difficulty I’ve prevailed. Now, Chrysalus, this must be your care.CHRYSALUS What do you wish should be my care?MNESILOCHUS That once again you should make a second inroad upon the old gentleman. Contrive, devise, invent whatever you please; frame your plansFrame your plans: Conglutina. Literally, glue the pieces together., so that this day you may cleverly deceive the old man unawares, and carry off the gold.CHRYSALUS It scarcely seems possible to be done.MNESILOCHUS Set about it, and you’ll easily effect it.CHRYSALUS How the plague easily, for me, whom he has this moment caught out in a lie? Should I entreat him not to believe me at all, he would not venture even to believe me in that.MNESILOCHUS Aye, and if you were to hear what things he said about you in my presence.CHRYSALUS What did he say?MNESILOCHUS That if you were to say that this sun was the sun, he would believe it was the moon, and that that is the night which is now the day.CHRYSALUS By my troth, I’ll bamboozle the old chap right well this very day, so that he shan’t have said that for nothing.PISTOCLERUS Now, what would you have us do?