But do make haste. TRACHALIOVery well.DAEMONESTake care and let a dinner be prepared here at once.TRACHALIOVery well. DAEMONESWhat, all very well?TRACHALIOVery well. But do you know what it is I want of you? That you’ll remember what you promised, that this day I’m to be free.DAEMONESVery wellVery well: Here Daemones begins to pay him in his own coin, and answers him with licet until he makes his exit.. TRACHALIOTake care and entreat Plesidippus to give me my freedom.DAEMONESVery well. TRACHALIOAnd let your daughter request it; she’ll easily prevail.DAEMONESVery well. TRACHALIOAnd that Ampelisca may marry me, when I’m a free man.DAEMONESVery well. TRACHALIOAnd that I may experience a pleasing return to myself in kindness for my actions.DAEMONESVery well. TRACHALIOWhat, all very well?DAEMONESVery well. Again I return you thanks. But do you make haste to proceed to the city forthwith, and betake yourself hither again.TRACHALIOVery well. I’ll be here directly. In the meanwhile, do you make the other preparations that are necessary.(Exit TRACHALIO.)DAEMONESVery well—may Hercules ill befriend him with his very-wellingHis very-welling: Cum suâ licentiâ. In the latter word he alludes to Trachalio having bored him with his licets, although, having given him a Roland for his Oliver, he might have surely been content with that.; he has so stuffed my ears with it. Whatever it was I said, very well was the answer.

(Enter GRIPUS, from the cottage.)GRIPUSHow soon may I have a word with you, Daemones?DAEMONESWhat’s your business, Gripus? GRIPUSTouching that wallet, if you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the Gods provide you.DAEMONESDoes it seem right to you, that, what belongs to another I should assert to be my own?GRIPUSWhat, not a thing that I found in the sea?DAEMONESSo much the better does it happen for him who lost it; none the more is it necessary that it should be your wallet. GRIPUSFor this reason are you poor because you are too scrupulously righteous.DAEMONESO Gripus, Gripus, in the life of man very many traps there are, in what they are deceived by guile. And, by my troth, full often is a bait placed in them, which bait if any greedy person greedily snaps at, through his own greediness he is caught in the trap. He who prudently, skilfully, and warily, takes precaution, full long he may enjoy that which is honestly acquired. This booty seems to meThis booty seems to me: This passage is very obscure, and has been variously interpreted. He seems, however, to mean that more good will come of restoring the booty to its owner than of keeping it. to be about to be made a booty of by me, that it may go hence with a greater blessing than it first came. What, ought I to conceal what I know was brought to me as belonging to another? By no means will my friend Daemones do that. ’Tis ever most becoming for prudent men to be on their guard against this, that they be not themselves confederates with their servants in evil-doing. Except only when I’m gaming, I don’t care for any gain.