By heavens! do get up, I beg of you; my father has arrived.CALLIDAMATESYour father has come? Bid him go back again. What business had he to come back here so soon?PHILOLACHESWhat am I to do? My father will, just now, be coming and unfortunately finding me amid drunken carousals, and the house full of revellers and women. It’s a shocking bad job, to be digging a well at the last moment, just when thirst has gained possession of your throat; just as I, on the arrival of my father, wretch that I am, am now enquiring what I am to do.TRANIO(pointing at CALLIDAMATES.)Why look, he has laid down his head and gone to sleep. Do arouse him.PHILOLACHES(shaking him.)Will you awake now? My father, I tell you, will be here this instant.CALLIDAMATESHow say you? Your father? Give me my shoes, that I may take up arms. On my word, I’ll kill your father this instant.PHILOLACHES(seizing hold of him.)You’re spoiling the whole business;do hold your tongue. (To DELPHIUM.) Prithee, do carry him off in your arms into the house.CALLIDAMATES(To DELPHIUM, who is lifting him up.)Upon my faith, I’ll be making an utensil of you just now, if you don’t find me one.(He is led off into the house.)PHILOLACHESI’m undone!TRANIOBe of good courage; I’ll cleverly find a remedy for this alarm. PHILOLACHESI’m utterly ruined!TRANIODo hold your tongue; I’ll think of something by means of which to alleviate this for you. Are you satisfied, if on his arrival I shall so manage your father, not only that he shall not enter, but even that he shall run away to a distance from the house? Do you only be off from here in-doors, and remove these things from here with all haste.PHILOLACHESWhere am I to be? TRANIOWhere you especially desire: with her (pointing to PHILEMATIUM); with this girl, too, you’ll be. (Pointing to DELPHEIUM.) DELPHIUMHow then? Are we to go away from here?TRANIONot far from here, Delphium. For carouse away in the house not a bit the less on account of this.PHILOLACHESAh me! I’m in a sweat with fear as to how these fine words are to end! TRANIOCan you not be tranquil in your mind, and do as I bid you?PHILOLACHESI can be. TRANIOIn the first place of all, Philematium, do you go in-doors; and you, Delphium.DELPHIUMWe’ll both be obedient to you.(They go into the house.)TRANIOMay Jupiter grant it so! Now then, do you give attention as to what I’d have attended to. In the first place, then, before anything, cause the house to be shut up at once. Take care and don’t let any one whisper a word indoors.PHILOLACHESCare shall be taken. TRANIOJust as though no living being were dwelling within the house.PHILOLACHESVery well.