CALL. Just let me be umpire in this matter. (_To_ TRANIO.) Get up;
I'll seat myself there.
THEU. By all means: take the management of this dispute to yourself.
(_Pushes him to one side of the altar._)
TRA. Why, this is _surely_ a trick. Make me, then, not to be in a
fright, and yourself to be in a fright in my stead.
THEU. I consider now everything of trifling consequence, compared with
the way in which he has fooled me.
TRA. I' faith, 'twas cleverly done, and I rejoice that it was done.
Those who have white heads ought at that age to be wiser.
THEU. What am I now to do if my friend Demipho or Philonides--
TRA. Tell them in what way your servant made a fool of you. You would be
affording most capital plots for Comedies.
CALL. Hold your tongue awhile; let me speak in my turn.--Listen. THEU.
By all means.
CALL. In the first place of all then, you know that I am the companion
of your son; he has gone to my house, for he is ashamed to come into
your presence, because he knows that you are aware what he has done.
Now, I beseech you, do pardon his simplicity and youthfulness. He is
your _son_; you know that this age is wont to play such pranks;
whatever he has done, he has done in company with me. We have acted
wrong: the interest, principal, and all the sum at which the mistress
vas purchased, all of it we will find, _and_ will contribute
together, at our own cost, not yours.
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