(_Pretends to think._)
THEU. Well, call it to mind, then.
TRA. (_aside_). What am I to do now, except _put_ the lie upon
this neighbour of ours next door? I'll say that his son has bought that
house. I' faith, I've heard say that a lie piping-hot is the best
_lie_; this is piping-hot; although it is at a distance off, it
scorches badly. Whatever the Gods dictate, that am I determined to say.
THEU. Well now? Have you recollected it by this?
TRA. (_aside_). May the Gods confound that fellow!--no, this
_other_ fellow, rather. (_To_ THEUROPIDES.) Your son has
bought the house of this next-door neighbour _of yours_.
THEU. In real truth?
TRA. If, indeed, you are going to pay down the money, then in real
_truth_; if you are not going to pay it, in real truth he has not
bought it.
THEU. He hasn't bought it in a very good situation.
TRA. Why yes, in a very good one.
THEU. I' faith, I should like to look over this house; just knock at the
door, and call some one to you from within, Tranio.
TRA. (_aside_). Why just look now, again I don't know what I'm to
say. Once more, now, are the surges bearing me upon the self-same rock.
What now? I' faith, I can't discover what I am now to do; I'm caught in
the fact.
THEU. Just call some one out of doors; ask him to show us round.
TRA. (_going to the door of_ SIMO's _house_). Hallo there,
you! (_Turning round_.
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