The things that you ordered—what’s ordered for a good purpose is forthwith done by the obedient. CHRYSALUS What have you brought? PISTOCLERUS Everything that you bade me bring. CHRYSALUS (to MNESILOCHUS.) Do you take the pen at once, and these tablets. MNESILOCHUS (taking them.) What then? CHRYSALUS Write there what I shall bid you; for I wish you to write for this reason, that your father may know the hand when he reads it. Write now. MNESILOCHUS What shall I write? CHRYSALUS Health to your father, in your own language. (MNESILOCHUS writes.) PISTOCLERUS Suppose he were to write disease and death, in preference, that would be much better. CHRYSALUS Don’t you interrupt us.