On my honor you shall never this day know before I’ve heard it of you.PAEGNIUMIs such the fact? SOPHOCLIDISCAIs such the fact?PAEGNIUMYou are a worthless one.SOPHOCLIDISCARogue.PAEGNIUMThat befits me.SOPHOCLIDISCAMe then it does not befit.PAEGNIUMWhat do you say? Are you quite determined, you hussy, to conceal whither you are going?SOPHOCLIDISCAAnd are you quite resolved to hide whither you are betaking yourself, you scoundrel?PAEGNIUMYou 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.)SOPHOCLIDISCAStop!PAEGNIUMBut I’m in a hurry.SOPHOCLIDISCAAnd, i’ faith, I as well.PAEGNIUMHave you got anything?(Pointing to her hand.)SOPHOCLIDISCAHave you anything?(Pointing likewise.)PAEGNIUMReally nothing whatever.SOPHOCLIDISCAShow me your hand then.PAEGNIUM(showing his right hand.)Is this the hand?SOPHOCLIDISCAWhere 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. SOPHOCLIDISCABut suppose I’m in love with you.PAEGNIUMYou employ your pains to no purpose.SOPHOCLIDISCAWhy so?PAEGNIUMWhy, because you are in love with nothing at all, when you are in love with one who doesn’t return it.SOPHOCLIDISCAIt 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.PAEGNIUMStill, that warfare is waged much more successfully by spirit than by weight. But I’m losing my pains.SOPHOCLIDISCAWhy so?