ell?

_Chrys._

Ducentis Philippis rem pepigi.

I've settled for two hundred pounds.

_Nic._

Ah, salus
mea, servavisti me. quam mox dico "dabo"? 880

(_ecstatic_) Ah, my salvation! you've saved me! How long
before I say "I'll pay"?

_Chrys._

Roga hunc tu, tu promitte huic.

(_to Cleomachus_) You make your demand of him: (_to
Nicobulus_) you promise him.

_Nic._

Promitto, roga.

(_eagerly_) I promise: make your demand.

_Cleom._

Ducentos nummos aureos Philippos probos
dabin?

Will you pay me two hundred good honest gold sovereigns?

_Chrys._

"Dabuntur" inque. responde.

(_to Nicobulus_) "I will": say that. Answer him.

_Nic._

Dabo.

I will.

_Chrys._

Quid nunc, impure? numquid debetur tibi?
quid illi molestu's? quid illum morte territas?
et ego te et ille mactamus infortunio.
si tibi est machaera, at nobis veruinast domi:
qua quidem te faciam, si tu me inritaveris,
confossiorem soricina nenia.
iam dudum hercle equidem sentio, suspicio 890
quae te sollicitet: eum esse cum illa muliere.

(_to Cleomachus_) What now, you beast? Is anything owed
you? What are you annoying that gentleman for? What are you
scaring him with murderous threats for? We'll give you a
horrible time of it, he and I together. You may have a
sword, but we've got a little spit at home: if you get me
roused, I'll up with it and stick you fuller of holes than
a squealing shrewmouse. Good Lord! Why, I saw it all long
ago--how you're suffering from the suspicion that he's with
the lady there.

_Cleom._

Immo est quoque.

Suspicion? He is there, too.

_Chrys._

Ita me Iuppiter Iuno Ceres
Minerva[23] Latona Spes Opis Virtus Venus
Castor Polluces Mars Mercurius Hercules
Summanus Sol Saturnus dique omnes ament,
ut ille cum illa neque cubat neque ambulat
neque osculatur neque illud quod dici solet.

(_with unction_) So help me Jupiter, Juno, Ceres, Minerva,
Latona, Spes, Ops, Virtus, Venus, Castor, Pollux, Mars,
Mercury, Hercules, Summanus, Sol, Saturn, and all the gods,
he is neither lying with her, nor walking with her, nor
kissing her, nor anything else he has the name of doing.

_Nic._

Ut iurat! servat me ille suis periuriis.

(_aside_) What an oath! The