Ought you not to have ventured to say the harrower first? For countrymen always harrow before they weed.HEGIO Why, with what assurance he stands before me.TYNDARUS It’s proper for a servant, innocent and guiltless, to be full of confidence, most especially before his master.HEGIO(to the SLATES.)Bind this fellow’s hands tightly, will you.TYNDARUS I am your own—do you command them to be cut off even. But what is the matter on account of which you blame me?HEGIO Because me and my fortunes, so far as in you singly lay, by your rascally and knavish stratagems you have rent in pieces, and have distracted my affairs and spoiled all my resources and my plans, in that you’ve thus robbed me of Philocrates by your devices,