I don’t care, and I don’t wish to know. NICOBULUS Still, do come here. CHRYSALUS What need is there? NICOBULUS Hold your tongue. CHRYSALUS I’ll stay. CHRYSALUS I won’t, I say. NICOBULUS But I will, I say. CHRYSALUS What need is there? NICOBULUS Still do you only do that which I bid you. CHRYSALUS I’ll come. ’Tis right to do so; your own servant ought to be obedient at your command. (Goes up to him.) NICOBULUS (looking at the tablets.) Heyday! he hasn’t been sparing Hasn’t been sparing : By this expression he means that his son has written a very long letter, as he has been neither sparing of the wax for the table’s, nor of the use of the stylus or pen. of his wax or pen. But whatever it is, I’m resolved to read it through. Attend to me, please, this very instant.