Why, because thee dost call me churlish. Therefore now, if thee doesn’t be off this instant, and tell me quickly what thee want’st, adzookers, woman, I’ll be, here this very instant, trampling thee beneath my feet like a sow her piglings. ASTAPHIUM This is indeed right country, and no mistake; ’tis an abominable and truly a monkey race. STRATILAX (holding up his fist.) Dost thee throw the country in my teeth, when thee hast found a man who’s ashamed of what’s foul? Hast thee come hither to tempt me with thy decked out bones Decked out bones : Ossibus, with your bones. Probably, in allusion to her thinness, he insinuates that she is a skeleton. Exornatis may apply either to her dress or to the paint upon her face. ? Was it for that, shameless slut, thee dyed thy mantle of its smoke-dried colour, or art thee so fine because that thee’s been a stealing? Come thee towards me then. ASTAPHIUM Now you charm me. STRATILAX How much I wish I could charm thee. ASTAPHIUM You tell a lie. Part of line 273 in a variant reading of the Latin. STRATILAX Tell me— Part of line 273 in the Latin.