mine is that I told to wait for me here. (_pauses_) Well,
on thinking it over, if he's doing something for me, it's
all wrong my finding fault with him. (_turning toward
Megadorus's door_) Now for the session that decides my fate.
[EXIT.

IV. 8.

Scene 8.

ENTER _Strobilus_ WITH POT.

_Strob._

Picis divitiis, qui aureos montes colunt,
ego solus supero. nam istos reges ceteros
memorare nolo, hominum mendicabula:
ego sum ille rex Philippus. o lepidum diem,
nam ut dudum hinc abii, multo illo adveni prior
multoque prius me conlocavi in arborem
indeque spectabam aurum ubi abstrudebat senex.

(_elated_) Woodpeckers that haunt the Hills of Gold, eh!
I can buy 'em up my own single self. As for the rest of your
big kings--not worth mentioning, poor beggarlets! I am the
great King Philip. Oh, this is a grand day! Why, after I
left here a while ago I got there long before him and was
up in a tree long before he came: and from there I spotted
where the old chap hid the stuff.

ubi ille abiit, ego me dorsum duco de arbore,
exfodio aulam auri plenam. inde ex eo loco
video recipere se senem; ille me non videt, 710
nam ego declinavi paululum me extra viam.
attat, eccum ipsum. ibo ut hoc condam domum.

After he'd gone I scrabbled down, dug up the pot full of
gold! Then I saw him coming back from the place; he didn't
see me, though. I slipped off a bit to one side of the road
(_looking down street_) Aha! there he comes! I'll home and
tuck this out of sight. [EXIT _Strobilus_.

IV. 9.

Scene 9.

ENTER _Euclio_ FRANTIC.

_Eucl._

Perii interii occidi. quo curram? quo non curram? tene, tene.
quem? quis?
nescio, nil video, caecus eo atque equidem quo eam aut ubi sim
aut qui sim
nequeo cum animo certum investigare. obsecro vos ego, mi auxilio,
oro obtestor, sitis et hominem demonstretis, quis eam abstulerit.

(_running wildly back and forth_) I'm ruined, I'm killed,
I'm murdered! Where shall I run? Where shan't I run? Stop
thief! Stop thief! What thief? Who? I don't know! I can't
see! I'm all in the dark! Yes, yes, and where I'm going, or
where I am, or who I am--oh, I can't tell, I can't think!
(_to audienc