SER. Hold your tongue, will you, _you clever_ workman, who are in the habit of coining money out of lead [6]. PHA. You cannot compel me to be abusive to you. My master knows me. SER. Why, really, his own pillow [7] he ought to know, _for resting on when drunk_. PHA. If you were sober, you wouldn't be abusive. SER. Am I to give heed to you, when you won't to me? PHA. But, you rascal, you come along with me to fetch him. SER. Troth now, Phaniscus, prithee, do leave off talking about these matters. PHA. I'll do so, and knock at the door. (_Knocks at the door of the house of_ THEUROPIDES.) Hallo there! is there any person here to protect this door from a most serious injury? (_Knocking again._) Is any one, is any one, I say, coming out here and going to open it? Why, really, no one comes out here. Just as befits _such_ worthless fellows, so they are. But on that account, I've the more need to be cautious that no one may come out and use me ill. (_They stand aside._) [Footnote 1: _Well covered up_)--Ver. 865. He alludes to the practice of stripping disobedient slaves, for the purpose of flogging them.] [Footnote 2: _Lavish of their property_)--Ver. 870. That is, of their backs.] [Footnote 3: _To pasturage out of doors_)--Ver. 876. This was probably a proverbial phrase for going to the "thermopolium," the "hot liquor-shop" or "tippling-house," so much frequented by the slaves. See the Trinummus, 1. 1013, and the Note to the passage.] [Footnote 4: _bull's-hide-scourged--rope-scourged_)--Ver. 882. "Bucaedae--restio." The latter word properly signifies "a ropemaker." The former is probably coined by Plautus.] [Footnote 5: _My eyes do ache_)--Ver. 890. Phaniscus probably means to say, that the sight of him is as annoying to his eyes as smoke can be.] [Footnote 6: _Money out of lead_)--Ver. 892. According to Erasmus, (Adagia Chil. v. Cent. 1,) this was a proverbial expression among the Romans, signifying the ability to put on a specious appearance.] [Footnote 7: _His own pillow_)--Ver. 894. There is an indelicate allusion in this line; and another turn has been given to it in the Translation.] SCENE II.--_Enter_ TRANIO _and_ THEUROPIDES, _from the house of_ SIMO. TRA. What's your opinion of this bargain? THEU. I am quite delighted. TRA. Does it seem to you to have been bought too dear? THEU. I' faith, I'm sure that I never anywhere saw a house thrown away, this one only excepted. TRA. Does it please you, _then_? THEU. Does it please me, do you ask me? Why yes, upon my faith, it really does please me very much. TRA. What a fine set of rooms for the women! What a porch! THEU. Exceedingly fine. For my part, I don't think that there is any _porch_ larger than this in the public buildings. TRA. Why, I myself and Philolaches have taken the measure of all the porches in the public buildings. THEU. _Well_, what then? TRA. _This_ is far larger than all of them.