a finger's breadth a nail's breadth
from that spot; you so much as turn your head till I say
the word, and by the Almighty, the next minute I'll send
you to the gallows for a lesson, so I will.

scelestiorem me hac anu certo scio 60
vidisse numquam, nimisque ego hanc metuo male,
ne mi ex insidiis verba imprudent duit
neu persentiscat aurum ubi est absconditum,
quae in occipitio quoque habet oculos pessima.
nunc ibo ut visam sitne ita aurum ut condidi,
quod me sollicitat plurimis miserum modis.

(_aside_) A worse reprobate than this old crone I never did
see, no, never. Oh, but how horribly scared I am she'll come
some sly dodge on me when I'm not expecting it, and smell
out the place where the gold is hidden. She has eyes in the
very back of her head, the hell-cat. Now I'll just go see if
the gold is where I hid it. Dear, dear, it worries the life
out of me! [EXIT _Euclio_ INTO HOUSE.

_Staph._

Noenum mecastor quid ego ero dicam meo
malae rei evenisse quamve insaniam,
queo comminisci; ita me miseram ad hunc modum
decies die uno saepe extrudit aedibus. 70
nescio pol quae illunc hominem intemperiae tenent;
pervigilat noctes totas, tum autem interdius
quasi claudus sutor domi sedet totos dies.

Mercy me! What's come over master, what crazy streak he's
got, I can't imagine,--driving a poor woman out of the house
this way ten times a day, often. Goodness gracious, what
whim-whams the man's got into his head I don't see. Never
shuts his eyes all night: yes, and then in the daytime he's
sitting around the house the whole livelong day, for all the
world like a lame cobbler.

neque iam quo pacto celem erilis filiae
probrum, propinqua partitudo cui appetit,
queo comminisci; neque quicquam meliust mihi,
ut opinor, quam ex me ut unam faciam litteram
longam, meum laqueo collum quando obstrinxero.

How I'm going to hide the young mistress's disgrace now is
beyond me, and she with her time so near. There's nothing
better for me to do, as I see, than tie a rope round my neck
and dangle myself out into one long capital I.

I. 2.

Scene 2.

RE-ENTER _Euclio_ FROM HOUSE.

_Eucl._

Nunc defaecato demum animo egredior domo,
postquam perspexi salva esse intus omni