others_) Very well, come now, in
with you, cooks, music girls, every one! (_to Congrio_) Go
on, take your under-strappers inside if you like, the whole
hireling herd of 'em. Cook away, work away, scurry around to
your hearts' content now.

_Cong._

Temperi, postquam implevisti fusti fissorum caput.

A nice time for it, after you've clubbed my head till it's
all cracks!

_Eucl._

Intro abite, opera huc conducta est vostra, non oratio.

In with you. You were engaged to get up a dinner here, not a
declamation.

_Cong._

Heus, senex, pro vapulando hercle ego abs te mercedem petam.
coctum ego, non vapulatum, dudum conductus fui.

I say, old boy, I'll come to you with my bill for that
basting, by the Lord I will. I was hired a while ago to be
cook, not to be thumped.

_Eucl._

Lege agito mecum. molestus ne sis. i et cenam coque,
aut abi in malum cruciatum ab aedibus.

Well, go to law about it. Don't bother me. Away with you:
get dinner, or else get to the devil out of here.

_Cong._

Abi tu modo.

You just get to--(_mildly, as he pushes in past him_) one
side, then. [EXEUNT _Congrio_ AND HIS ASSOCIATES INTO HOUSE.

III. 4.

Scene 4.

_Eucl._

Illic hinc abiit. di immortales, facinus audax incipit 460
qui cum opulento pauper homine coepit rem habere aut negotium.[7]
veluti Megadorus temptat me omnibus miserum modis,
qui simulavit mei honoris mittere huc causa coquos:
is ea causa misit, hoc qui surriperent misero mihi.

(_looking after them_) He's disappeared. My Lord, my Lord!
It's an awful chance a poor man takes when he begins to have
dealings or business with a wealthy man. Here's Megadorus
now, trying to catch me--oh, dear, dear!--in all sorts of
ways. Sending cooks over here and pretending it's because
of regard for me! Sent 'em to steal this (_looking under
cloak_) from a poor old man--that's what his sending 'em
was because of!

condigne etiam meus med intus gallus gallinacius,
qui erat anu peculiaris, perdidit paenissume.
ubi erat haec defossa, occepit ibi scalpurrire ungulis
circum circa. quid opust verbis? ita mihi pectus peracuit:
capio fustem, obtrunco gallum, furem manufestarium.

And then of course that dunghill cock of mine in there, that
used to belong to the old woman, had to com