_Sos._ The door is peremptory, that it will not be opened without keys; and my brother on the inside is in possession, and will not part with them. _Amph._ Then 'tis manifest that I am affronted.--Break open the door there. _Grip._ Stir not a man of you to his assistance. _Amph._ Dost thou take part with my adulteress too, because she is thy niece? _Grip._ I take part with nothing, but the law; and, to break the doors open, is to break the law. _Amph._ Do thou command them then. _Grip._ I command nothing without my warrant; and my clerk is not here to take his fees for drawing it. _Amph._ [_Aside._] The devil take all justice-brokers! I curse him too, when I have been hunting him all over the town, to be my witness! But I'll bring soldiers, to force open the doors, by my own commission. [_Exit_ AMPH. _Sos._ Pox o' these forms of law, to defeat a man of a dinner, when he's sharp set! 'Tis against the privilege of a free-born stomach; and is no less than subversion of fundamentals. [JUPITER _above in the Balcony_. _Jup._ Oh, my friends, I am sorry I have made you wait so long: you are welcome; and the door shall be opened to you immediately. [_Exit_ JUPITER. _Grip._ Was not that Amphitryon? _Sos._ Why, who should it be else? _Grip._ In all appearance it was he; but how got be thither? _Pol._ In such a trice too! _Tran._ And after he had just left us! _Grip._ And so much altered, for the better, in his humour! _Sos._ Here's such a company of foolish questions, when a man's hungry! You had best stay dinner, till he has proved himself to be Amphitryon in form of law: but I'll make short work of that business; for I'll take mine oath 'tis he. _Grip._ I should be glad it were. _Sos._ How! glad it were? with your damned interrogatories, when you ought to be thankful, that so it is. _Grip._ [_Aside._] That I may see my mistress Phædra, and present her with my great gold goblet. _Sos._ If this be not the true Amphitryon, I wish I may be kept without doors, fasting, and biting my own fingers, for want of victuals; and that's a dreadful imprecation! I am for the inviting, and eating, and treating Amphitryon; I am sure 'tis he that is my lawfully begotten lord; and, if you had an ounce of true justice in you, you ought to have laid hold on the other Amphitryon, and committed him for a rogue, and an impostor, and a vagabond. [_The Door is opened._ _Merc._ [_From within._] Enter quickly, masters: The passage, on the right hand, leads to the gallery, where my lord expects you; for I am called another way. [GRIPUS, TRANIO, _and_ POLIDAS, _go into the House_.