PERIPLECTOMENUS: Behold us here obedient to your call.

PALAESTRIO: The sway is easy over the good. But I wish to know, if we are to carry out the matter on the same plan that we formed within?

PERIPLECTOMENUS: Why, in fact there's nothing can be more conducive to our purpose. Well, what say you, Pleusicles?

PLEUSICLES: Can that displease me which pleases yourselves? What person is there more my friend than your own self?

PERIPLECTOMENUS: You speak kindly and obligingly.

PALAESTRIO: Faith, and so he ought to do.

PLEUSICLES: But this affair shockingly distresses me, and torments my very heart and body.

PERIPLECTOMENUS: What is it that torments you? Tell me.

PLEUSICLES: That I should cause childish actions in a person of your years, and that I should require of you deeds that neither become