dexteram.

Ugh! you rascal! How obliging you are! That I may think you
didn't take it! I'm up to your dodges. (_searches him_) Once
more now--out with your hand, the right one.

_Strob._

Em.

(_obeying_) There you are.

_Eucl._

Nunc laevam ostende.

Now the left one.

_Strob._

Quin equidem ambas profero. 650

(_obeying_) Why, certainly: here's the both of 'em.

_Eucl._

Iam scrutari mitto. redde huc.

Enough of this searching. Now give it here.

_Strob._

Quid reddam?

What?

_Eucl._

A, nugas agis,
certe habes.

Oh-h! Bosh! You must have it!

_Strob._

Habeo ego? quid habeo?

I have it? Have what?

_Eucl._

Non dico, audire expetis.
id meum, quidquid habes, redde.

I won't say: you're too anxious to know. Anything of mine
you've got, hand it over.

_Strob._

Insanis: perscrutatus es
tuo arbitratu, neque tui me quicquam invenisti penes.

Crazy! You went all through me as much as you liked without
finding a solitary thing of yours on me.

_Eucl._

Mane, mane. quis illic est? quis hic intus alter erat tecum simul?
perii hercle: ille nunc intus turbat, hunc si amitto hic abierit.
postremo hunc iam perscrutavi, his nihil habet. abi quo lubet.

(_excitedly_) Wait, wait! (_turns toward temple and
listens_) Who's in there? Who was that other fellow in
there along with you? (_aside_) My Lord! this is awful,
awful! There's another one at work in there all this time.
And if I let go of this one, he'll skip off. (_pauses_)
But then I've searched him already: he hasn't anything.
(_aloud_) Off with you, anywhere! (_releases him with a
final cuff_)

_Strob._

Iuppiter te dique perdant.

(_from a safe distance_) You be everlastingly damned!

_Eucl._

Haud male egit gratias.
ibo intro atque illi socienno tuo iam interstringam gulam.
fugin hinc ab oculis? abin an non.

(_aside, dryly_) Nice way he has of showing his gratitude.
(_aloud, sternly_) I'll go in there, and that accomplice of
yours--I'll strangle him on the spot. Are you going to
vanish? Are you going to get out, or not? (_advances_)

_Strob._

Abeo.

(_retreating_) I am, I am!

_Eud._

Cave sis[15] te videam. 660