On my honor you shall never this day know before I’ve heard it of you. PAEGNIUM Is such the fact? SOPHOCLIDISCA Is such the fact? PAEGNIUM You are a worthless one. SOPHOCLIDISCA Rogue. PAEGNIUM That befits me. SOPHOCLIDISCA Me then it does not befit. PAEGNIUM What do you say? Are you quite determined, you hussy, to conceal whither you are going? SOPHOCLIDISCA And are you quite resolved to hide whither you are betaking yourself, you scoundrel? PAEGNIUM You are giving answer to what I say like for like; be off with you then, since such is your determination. I don’t care at all to know. Good-bye. (Moving.) SOPHOCLIDISCA Stop! PAEGNIUM But I’m in a hurry. SOPHOCLIDISCA And, i’ faith, I as well. PAEGNIUM Have you got anything? (Pointing to her hand.) SOPHOCLIDISCA Have you anything? (Pointing likewise.) PAEGNIUM Really nothing whatever. SOPHOCLIDISCA Show me your hand then. PAEGNIUM (showing his right hand.) Is this the hand? SOPHOCLIDISCA Where is that other, the pilfering left hand? PAEGNIUM (hiding his left hand.) Why, it is at home, d’ye see; I’ve not brought one hither. SOPHOCLIDISCA (trying to seize his hand.) You’ve got something, what it is I know not. PAEGNIUM (pushing her away.) Don’t be mauling me about you she-groper. SOPHOCLIDISCA But suppose I’m in love with you. PAEGNIUM You employ your pains to no purpose. SOPHOCLIDISCA Why so? PAEGNIUM Why, because you are in love with nothing at all, when you are in love with one who doesn’t return it. SOPHOCLIDISCA It befits these youthful looks and age to be on the watch for pleasure in good time; so that, when your hair comes to change its hue, you may not be always in a grovelling servitude. Why, really, as yet you are not eighty pounds in weight. PAEGNIUM Still, that warfare is waged much more successfully by spirit than by weight. But I’m losing my pains. SOPHOCLIDISCA Why so?