yourself a lighter son,
and him a heavier slave. (_indicating Stalagmus_)

_Hegio_

Certum est principio id praevortier.
eamus intro, ut arcessatur faber, ut istas compedes
tibi adimam, huic dem.

Yes, yes, I must see to that first of all. Let's go inside
and have a blacksmith sent for, so that I may get those
irons off of you and make this fellow (_turning to
Stalagmus_) a present of them.

_Stal._

Quoi peculi nihil est, recte feceris.

Thanks awfully--seeing I haven't a thing I can call my own.
[EXEUNT OMNES.

CATERVA

EPILOGUE

SPOKEN BY THE COMPANY.

Spectatores, ad pudicos mores facta haec fabula est,
neque in hac subigitationes sunt neque ulla amatio 1030
nec pueri suppositio nec argenti circumductio,
neque ubi amans adulescens scortum liberet clam suom patrem.

Spectators, this play was composed with due regard to the
proprieties: here you have no vicious intrigues, no love
affair, no supposititious child, no getting money on false
pretences, no young spark setting a wench free without his
father's knowledge.

huius modi paucas poetae reperiunt comoedias,
ubi boni meliores fiant. nunc vos, si vobis placet
et si placuimus neque odio fuimus, signum hoc mittite:
qui pudicitiae esse voltis praemium, plausum date.

Dramatists find few plays such as this which make good men
better. Now, if you so please, and if we have pleased you
and have not been boring, intimate as much: you who wish
virtue to be rewarded, give us your applause.

* * * * *

[Footnote 1: Corrupt (Leo): _vincti quia astant_ Fleckeisen.]

[Footnote 2: Leo notes lacuna here:
_(cette), iam hoc tenetis_ Schoell.]

[Footnote 3: _vel_ precedes in MSS: Leo brackets.]

[Footnote 4: Leo notes lacuna here: _cupio (fieri)_ Schoell.]

[Footnote 5: Leo's correction of _multa miraclitis_ of the MSS.]

[Footnote 6: Corrupt (Leo): _ea_ MSS: _consili_ Schoell.]

[Footnote 7: Leo brackets the following v., 237:
_quod tibi suadeam, suadeam meo patri._]

[Footnote 8: Leo notes lacuna here: _huius (ille)_ Camerarius.]

[Footnote 9: Leo brackets the following v., 280:

Hegio
_Tum igitur ei cum in Aleis tanta gratia est, ut praedicas._]

[Footnote 10: Leo