Will you not be off from here? Perhaps you suppose that I don’t see what you’re about. Do you look to yourself, please.(To PAMPHILUS.) How that fellow is gaping after your property just like a hungry wolf. Don’t you know how men are set upon here in the street at night?PAMPHILUS So many the more servants will I bid to come and fetch me, that they may protect me.EPIGNOMUS He won’t stir—he won’t stir; because you persuade him so earnestly not to go out.GELASIMUS Do order a dinner to be cooked at home with all speed for me and for yourself and your wife. Troth, if you do so, I don’t think you’ll say that you are deceived.PAMPHILUS So far as that dinner is concerned, Gelasimus, you may be dinnerless to-day.GELASIMUS Are you going abroad to dine?PAMPHILUS I’m going to dine at my brother’s, hard by.GELASIMUS Is that fixed? PAMPHILUS Fixed.GELASIMUS By my troth, I hope you may be struck with a stone this day.PAMPHILUS I’m not afraid; I shall go through the garden; I’ll not go abroad.EPIGNOMUS What say you to that, Gelasimus?GELASIMUS You’re entertaining your deputies; keep them to yourself.EPIGNOMUS Why, faith, ’tis your own business.GELASIMUS If, indeed, ’tis my own business, avail yourself of my assistance; invite me.EPIGNOMUS By my faith, I see, as I fancy, one place still for yourself only, where you may recline.PAMPHILUS Really, I do think it may be managed.GELASIMUS O light of the city! EPIGNOMUS If you can manage to recline in a small compass.GELASIMUS Aye, even between two wedgesBetween two wedges: He will take so little space, that he will be able to sit in the compass that lies between two wedges, when driven into a tree for the purpose of forcing out a portion of the wood. of iron. As little space as a puppy can lie in, the same will be enough for me.EPIGNOMUS I’ll beg for it some way or other; come along.