DAV. Do we seem to you such very suitable persons for you to be playing tricks with us in this way? CHREM. (_apart._) I came {just} in time. DAV. Make haste then, and take the child away from the door here: (_in a low voice_) stay {there}; take care you don’t stir from that spot. MYS. (_aside._) May the Gods confound you! you do so terrify poor me. DAV. (_in a loud voice._) Is it to you I speak or not? MYS. What is it you want? DAV. (_aloud._) What-- do you ask me again? Tell me, whose child have you been laying here? Let me know. MYS. Don’t you know? DAV. (_in a low voice._) Have done with what I know; tell me what I ask. MYS. (_aloud._) It belongs to your people. DAV. (_aloud._) Which of our people? MYS. (_aloud._) To Pamphilus. DAV. (_affecting surprise in a loud tone._) How? What-- to Pamphilus? MYS. (_aloud._) How now-- is it not so? CHREM. (_apart._) With {good} reason have I {always} been averse to this match, it’s clear. DAV. (_calling aloud._) O abominable piece of effrontery! MYS. Why are you bawling out so? DAV. (_aloud._) What, the very one I saw being carried to your house yesterday evening? MYS. O {you} impudent fellow! DAV. (_aloud._) It’s the truth. I saw Canthara stuffed out beneath her clothes.[82] MYS. I’faith, I thank the Gods that several free women were present[83] at the delivery. DAV. (_aloud._) Assuredly she doesn’t know him, on whose account she resorts to these schemes. Chremes, {she fancies}, if he sees the child laid before the door, will not give his daughter; i’faith, he’ll give her all the sooner. CHREM. (_apart._) I’faith, he’ll not do so. DAV. (_aloud._) Now therefore, that you may be quite aware, if you don’t take up the child, I’ll roll it forthwith into the middle of the road; and yourself in the same place I’ll roll over into the mud. MYS. Upon my word, man, you are not sober. DAV. (_aloud._) One scheme brings on another. I now hear it whispered about that she is a citizen of Attica-- CHREM. (_apart._) Ha! DAV. (_aloud._) And that, constrained by the laws,[84] he will have to take her as his wife. MYS. Well now, pray, is she not a citizen? CHREM. (_apart._) I had almost fallen unawares into a comical misfortune. (_Comes forward._) DAV. Who’s that, speaking? (_Pretending to look about._) O Chremes, you have come in good time. Do listen to this. CHREM. I have heard it all already. DAV. Prithee, did you hear it? Here’s villainy for you! she (_pointing at MYSIS_) ought to be carried off[85] hence to the torture forthwith. (_To MYSIS, pointing at CHREMES._) This is Chremes himself; don’t suppose that you are trifling with Davus {only}. MYS. Wretched me! upon my faith I have told no untruth, my {worthy} old gentleman. CHREM. I know the whole affair. Is Simo within? DAV. He is. (_CHREMES goes into SIMO’S house._) SCENE VIII. _DAVUS and MYSIS._