mes this way shall eat fists.

_Sos._

Apage, non placet me hoc noctis esse: cenavi modo: 310
proin tu istam cenam largire, si sapis, esurientibus.

(_aside_) No you don't! I don't care about eating at this
time o' night. It wasn't long ago I dined. So if you've got
any sense, you just bestow that dinner on the hungry.

_Mer._

Haud malum huic est pondus pugno.

(_examining his right fist_) There's some weight in that
fist.

_Sos._

Perii, pugnos ponderat.

(_aside_) I'm finished! He's a-weighing his fists!

_Mer._

Quid si ego illum tractim tangam, ut dormiat?

(_sparring_) What if I should stroke him softly into
somnolence?

_Sos._

Servaveris,
nam contiuas has tris noctes pervigilavi.

(_aside_) You'd save my life: I haven't slept a wink
for three nights running.

_Mer._
Pessumest,
facimus nequiter, ferire malam male discit manus;
alia forma esse oportet quem tu pugno legeris.

(_swinging heavily_) Downright sinful, this! This is a
shame! 'Tis wrong of my arm to learn really to jab a jaw!
(_to arm as he feels biceps_) Merely graze a man with
thy fist and his shape must needs be altered.

_Sos._

Illic homo me interpolabit meumque os finget denuo.

(_aside_) That bully's going to do me up and mould my face
all over again for me.

_Mer._

Exossatum os esse oportet quem probe percusseris.

The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound
thereafter to be boneless.

_Sos._

Mirum ni hic me quasi murenam exossare cogitat.
ultro istunc qui exossat homines, perii, si me aspexerit. 320

(_aside_) Sure enough he's reckoning on boning me like
a lamprey. I--I object to these man-boners. It's all up if
he catches sight of me.

_Mer._

Olet homo quidam malo suo.

(_sniffing the air_) Ha! I smell somebody, and woe to him!

_Sos._

Ei, numnam ego obolui?

(_aside_) Oh, dear! It can't be he's got a whiff of me?

_Mer._

Atque haud longe abesse oportet, verum longe hinc afuit.

Aye, and he must be near at hand, albeit he has been afar
from here.

_Sos._

Illi homo superstitiosust.

(_aside_) The fellow's got second sight.

_Mer._

Gestiunt pugni mihi.

My fists are rampant.

_Sos._

Si in me exercituru's, quaeso in parietem ut primum dome