We are come.LYSIMACHUSBe off! A COOK.How, be off?LYSIMACHUS(in a low voice.)Hush! Be off!A COOK.What, I, be off? LYSIMACHUSBe off, I say.A COOK.Are you not going to have a dinner?LYSIMACHUSWe are full already.DORIPPABut— LYSIMACHUS(aside.)I’m utterly undone.DORIPPAWhat say you? Have those persons ordered these things to be brought to you as well, between whom you were appointed arbitrator? A COOK.Is this person (pointing to DORIPPA) your mistress, whom a little time since you told me you were in love with, when you were buying the provisions?LYSIMACHUSWon’t you hold your tongue? A COOK.A very pretty figure of a woman! I’ faith, she does love a sweetheart.LYSIMACHUSWon’t you be off to perdition?A COOK.She’s not amiss. LYSIMACHUSBut you are amiss.A COOK.I’ troth, I do fancy she’s a nice bed-fellow.LYSIMACHUSWon’t you be off? I’m not the person that hired you just now.A COOK.How’s that? Nay but, upon my faith, you are that very man. LYSIMACHUS(aside.)Alas wretch that I am!A COOK.Your wife’s in the country, I suppose, whom you were saying a little time ago you hated full as much as vipers.LYSIMACHUSI, said that to you?A COOK.Aye, to me, upon my faith.LYSIMACHUSSo may Jupiter love me, wife, I never did say that.DORIPPADo you deny that as well?A COOK.(to DORIPPA.)He didn’t say he hated you, but his wife. DORIPPAThis is made clear, that you detest me.LYSIMACHUSBut I deny it.A COOK.And he said that his wife was in the country.