<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div xml:lang="eng" type="translation" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="act" n="2"><div type="textpart" subtype="scene" n="2"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="296b" part="F">Prithee, what’s this that you know?</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="297b" part="F">How Strabax, my master’s son, is ruining himself at your house; how you are all enticing him to fraud and present-making.</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="299">If you appeared in your senses, I’d tell you. You’re uttering abuse only; </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" n="300">not a person is in the habit of being ruined here at our house; they waste their property; when they’ve wasted their property, they may go bare thence, if they choose. I don’t know this young man of yours.</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="302b" part="F">Indeed so. </l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="302a" part="Y">In sober truth.<note resp="perseus">Part of line 302b in the Latin.</note></l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="303">Aye, but that garden wall<note resp="editor"><q rend="double">That garden wall</q>:  <q rend="double">Maceria.</q> This was a wall made of loose tiles or bricks, laid on each ether without mortar.</note> that’s in our garden says so, which is becoming every night less by a brick, over which he travels to your house on the road to destruction.</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="305">The wall’s an old one; it isn’t wonderful if the bricks, being old, do tumble down.</l></sp><sp><speaker>STRATILAX</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="306">And says thee, hussy, that old bricks do tumble down? By my fakes, may never any mortal man henceforth trust me upon the two grand points<note resp="editor"><q rend="double">The two grand points</q>:  Alciatus thinks that the <q rend="double">two things</q> here mentioned are <q rend="double">yes</q> and <q rend="double">no.</q> Turnebus thinks that they mean <q rend="double">things human and divine.</q></note>, if I don’t inform of these goings on of yours to my elder master.</l></sp><sp><speaker>ASTAPHIUM</speaker><l xml:base="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi020.perseus-eng2" rend="align(indent)" n="309" part="I">Is he a savage as well? </l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>