Good Lord! I should certainly much rather have him at Ephesus, provided he was safe, than back home. (_pauses_) What am I to do in the matter? (_another pause, then irritably_) Let me hurry up and lose what has to be lost. I’ll go in and get four hundred pounds at once--the two hundred I promised the Captain a while ago, poor wretch that I am, and this last. Wait where you are: I’ll be with you again in a moment, Chrysalus. [EXIT INTO HOUSE. _Chrys._ Fit vasta Troia, scindunt proceres Pergamum. scivi ego iam dudum fore me exitio Pergamo. edepol qui me esse dicat cruciatu malo dignum, ne ego cum illo pignus haud ausim dare; tantas turbellas facio. sed crepuit foris: ecfertur praeda ex Troia. taceam nunciam. (_hilarious_). Troy is being made a waste; the chieftains are laying Pergamum low! I knew long ago I’d be the downfall of Pergamum! By gad, the man that says I deserve to be punished damnably--I surely wouldn’t dare bet him I don’t. Oh, the lovely rumpus I’m raising! (_listening_) But the door creaked: the booty is being carried out from Troy. Time for me to keep still! RE-ENTER _Nicobulus_ WITH TWO BAGS OF GOLD. _Nic._ Cape hoc tibi aurum, Chrysale. i, fer filio. ego ad forum autem hinc ibo, ut solvam militi. 1060 Take this money, Chrysalus: go, carry it to my son. As for me, I am going to the forum to settle with the Captain. _Chrys._ Non equidem accipiam. proin tu quaeras qui ferat. nolo ego mihi credi. (_drawing back_) No indeed, I won’t take it. So you can look further for some one to carry it. I don’t want it trusted to me. _Nic._ Cape vero, odiose facis. Come, come, now, take it: you annoy me. _Chrys._ Non equidem capiam. Indeed I won’t take it. _Nic._ At quaeso. But I beg you. _Chrys._ Dico ut res se habet. (_firmly_) I tell you just how I stand. _Nic._ Morare. (_impatiently_) You’re delaying me. _Chrys._ Nolo, inquam, aurum concredi mihi, vel da aliquem qui servet me. I don’t want money put in my charge, I say. (_pause_) At least, appoint some one to watch me. _Nic._ Ohe, odiose facis. Pshaw! You annoy me. _Chrys._ Cedo, si necesse est. (_reluctant_) Give it here, if I must. _Nic._ Cura hoc. iam ego huc revenero. (_handing him bag of gold_) Look out for this. I shall be back here soon. [EXIT TOWARD FORUM. _Chrys._ Curatum est--esse te senem miserrumum. hoc est incepta efficere pulcre: bellule mi evenit, ut ovans praeda onustus incederem; salute nostra atque urbe capta per dolum 1070 domum reduco integrum omnem exercitum.