Again I salute you. DAEMONES And I you. Are you he who, not long since, went away from here to fetch his master? TRACHALIO I am he. DAEMONES What now is it that you want? TRACHALIO (pointing to GRIPUS.) This is your servant, you say? DAEMONES He is mine. TRACHALIO That is very good, since he is yours. DAEMONES What’s the matter? TRACHALIO (pointing to GRIPUS.) That’s a rascally fellow there. DAEMONES What has the rascally fellow done to you? TRACHALIO I wish the ancles of that fellow were smashed. DAEMONES What’s the thing about which you are now disputing between yourselves? TRACHALIO I’ll tell you. GRIPUS No, I’ll tell you. TRACHALIO I fancy I’m to move the matter first. GRIPUS If indeed you were a decent person, you would be moving yourself off from here. DAEMONES Gripus, give attention, and hold your tongue GRIPUS In order that that fellow may speak first? DAEMONES Attend, Itell you. (To TRACHALIO.) Do you say on. GRIPUS Will you give the right of speaking to a stranger sooner than to your own servant? TRACHALIO O dear! how impossible it is for him to be kept quiet. As I was beginning to say, that Procurer, whom some little time since you turned out of the Temple of Venus—see (pointing at the wallet) , he has got his wallet. GRIPUS I haven’t got it. TRACHALIO Do you deny that which I see with my own eyes? GRIPUS But I only wish you couldn’t see. I have got it, and I haven’t got it; why do you trouble yourself about me, what things I do? TRACHALIO In what way you got it does matter, whether rightfully or wrongfully. GRIPUS If I didn’t take it in the sea, there’s not a reason why you shouldn’t deliver me up to the cross. If I took it in the sea with my net, how is it yours rather than my own? TRACHALIO (to DAEMONES.) He is deceiving you; the matter happened in this way, as I am telling you. GRIPUS What do you say? TRACHALIO So long as the person that has the first right to speak is speaking, do (to DAEMONES) put a check on him, please, if he belongs to you.