Scene 2.

_Diab._

Sequere hac, egone haec patiar aut taceam? emori 810 me malim, quam haec non eius uxori indicem. ain tu? apud amicam munus adulescentuli fungare, uxori excuses te et dicas senem? praeripias scortum amanti atque argentum obicias lenae? suppiles clam domi uxorem tuam?

(_incensed_) Come along! I put up with this? I hold my tongue? I’d rather perish from the earth than not let it out to his wife! (_shouting to Demaenetus within_) You will, will you? You will play the gay young spark with a mistress and excuse yourself to your wife on the plea of old age, eh? You will snatch a girl from her lover and toss your money to the Madame, eh? You will filch things from your lady at home on the sly, eh?

suspendam potius me, quam tu haec tacita auferas. iam quidem hercle ad illam hinc ibo, quam tu propediem, nisi quidem illa ante occupassit te, effliges scio, luxuriae sumptus suppeditare ut possies.

I’d sooner hang myself than let you carry it off so and nothing said. By the Lord, I’ll go to her this very minute, I will, the woman you’re bound to bring to pauperism shortly,--if she doesn’t forestall you, that is,--just so that you may be kept in funds for your orgies!

_Par._

Ego sic faciundum censeo: me honestiust, 820 quam te palam hanc rem facere, ne illa existimet amoris causa percitum id fecisse te magis quam sua causa.

(_calmly, judiciously_) In my opinion, this is the way we should handle the case: it would look better for me to appear in the matter than you; she might think you were hard hit and did it more out of jealousy than out of regard for her.

_Diab._

At pol qui dixti rectius. tu ergo fac ut illi turbas lites concias; cum suo sibi gnato unam ad amicam de die potare, illam expilare narra.

Right you are, gad yes, that is better! Then raise hell for him yourself; stir up a row; notify her that he’s having a daylight carouse with his own son, one girl between ’em there at her house, and she herself being rooked for it!

_Par._

Ne mone, ego istud curabo.

No advice needed! I shall take care of that.

_Diab._

At ego te opperiar domi.[27] (827)

Well, I’ll wait for you at home. [EXIT.

ACTVS V