HEG. (_apart_). I'd like much to address the fellow. (_Aloud._) Ergasilus! ERG. Who's calling Ergasilus? HEG. _Turn round, and_ look at me. ERG. (_not seeing who it is_). A thing that Fortune does not do for you, nor _ever_ will do, you bid me _to do_. But who is it. HEG. Look round at me. 'Tis Hegio. ERG. (_turning round_). O me! Best of the very best of men, as many as exist, you have arrived opportunely. HEG. You've met with some one at the harbour to dine with; through that you are elevated. ERG. Give me your hand. HEG. My hand? ERG. Give me your hand, I say, this instant. HEG. Take it. (_Giving him his hand._) ERG. Rejoice. HEG. Why should I rejoice? ERG. Because I bid you; come now, rejoice. HEG. I' faith, my sorrows exceed my rejoicings. ERG. 'Tis not so, _as_ you shall find; I'll at once drive away every spot of sorrow [7] from your body. Rejoice without restraint. HEG. I do rejoice, although I don't at all know why I should rejoice. ERG. You do rightly; _now_ order--HEG. Order what? ERG. A large fire to be made. HEG. A large fire? ERG. So I say, that a huge one it must be. HEG. What, you vulture, do you suppose that for your sake I'm going to set my house on fire? ERG. Don't be angry. Will you order, or will you not order, the pots to be put on, _and_ the saucepans to be washed out, the bacon and the dainties to be made warm in the heated cooking-stoves, another one, _too_, to go purchase the fish? HEG. This fellow's dreaming while awake. ERG. Another to buy pork, and lamb, and pullets. HEG. You understand how to feed well, if you had the means. ERG. Gammons of bacon, _too_, and lampreys, spring pickled tunny-fish, mackerel, and sting-ray; large fish, too, and soft cheese. HEG. You will have more opportunity, Ergasilus, here at my house, of talking about these things than of eating them. ERG. Do you suppose that I'm saying this on my own account? HEG. You will neither be eating nothing here to-day, nor yet much more _than usual, so_ don't you be mistaken. Do you then bring an appetite to my house for your every-day fare. ERG. Why, I'll so manage it, that you yourself shall wish to be profuse, though I myself should desire you not. HEG. What, I? ERG. Yes, you. HEG. Then you are my master. ERG. Yes, _and_ a kindly disposed one. Do you wish me to make you happy? HEG. Certainly I would, rather than miserable. ERG. Give me your hand. HEG. (_extending his hand_) Here is my hand. ERG. All the Gods are blessing you. HEG. I don't feel it so. ERG. Why, you are not in a quickset hedge,[8] therefore you don't feel it; but order the vessels, in a clean state, to be got for you forthwith in readiness for the sacrifice, and one lamb to be brought here with all haste, a fat one. HEG. Why? ERG. That you may offer sacrifice. HEG. To which one of the Gods?