mount upon the
thinking-shop and dig down the roof, if you love your
master, until you tumble the house upon them.

[Xanthias mounts upon the roof]

But let some one bring me a lighted torch and I'll make
some of them this day suffer punishment, even if they be
ever so much impostors.

1st Dis. (from within) Hollo! Hollo!

Strep. It is your business, O torch, to send forth
abundant flame.

[Mounts upon the roof]

1st Dis. What are you doing, fellow?

Strep. What am I doing? Why, what else, than chopping
logic with the beams of your house?

[Sets the house on fire]

2nd Dis. (from within) You will destroy us! You will
destroy us!

Strep. For I also wish this very thing; unless my
mattock deceive my hopes, or I should somehow fall first
and break my neck.

Soc. (from within). Hollo you! What are you doing, pray,
you fellow on the roof?

Strep. I am walking on air, and speculating about the
sun.

Soc. Ah me, unhappy! I shall be suffocated, wretched
man!

Chaer. And I, miserable man, shall be burnt to death!

Strep. For what has come into your heads that you acted
insolently toward the gods, and pried into the seat of
the moon? Chase, pelt, smite them, for many reasons, but
especially because you know that they offended against
the gods!

[The thinking shop is burned down]

Cho. Lead the way out; for we have sufficiently acted as
chorus for today.

[Exeunt omnes]

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