?
quid fecimus, quid diximus tibi secus quam velles?

Why won't you let us cook dinner here now? What have we
done? What have we said that you didn't like?

_Eucl._

Etiam rogitas, sceleste homo, qui angulos in omnis
mearum aedium et conclavium mihi pervium facitis?
ibi ubi tibi erat negotium, ad focum si adesses,
non fissile auferres caput: merito id tibi factum est. 440

A pretty question, you villainous rascal, with your making
a public highway of every nook and cranny in my whole house!
If you had stayed by the oven where your business lay, you
wouldn't be carrying that cloven pate: it serves you right.

adeo ut tu meam sententiam iam noscere possis
si ad ianuam huc accesseris, nisi iussero, propius,
ego te faciam miserrimus mortalis uti sis.
scis iam meam sententiam.

(_with forced composure_) Now further, just to acquaint you
with my sentiments in the matter,--you come any nearer this
door without my permission, and I will make you the most
forlorn creature in God's world. Now you know my sentiments.
[EXIT INTO HOUSE.

_Cong._

Quo abis? redi rursum.
ita me bene amet Laverna, uti te iam, nisi reddi
mihi vasa iubes, pipulo te his differam ante aedis.
quid ego nunc agam? ne ego edepol veni huc auspicio malo.
nummo sum conductus: plus iam medico merce dest opus.

(_calling after him_) Where are you off to? Come back! So
help me holy Mother of Thieves, but I'll soon make it warm
for you, the way I'll rip up your reputation in front of the
house here, if you don't have my dishes brought back! (_as
Euclio closes the door_) Now what? Oh, hell! It certainly
was an unlucky day when I came here! Two shillings for the
job, and now it'll take more than that to pay the doctor's
bill.

III. 3.

Scene 3.

RE-ENTER _Euclio_ FROM HOUSE WITH OBJECT UNDER HIS CLOAK.

_Eucl._

Hoc quidem hercle, quoquo ibo, mecum erit, mecum feram,
neque isti id in tantis periclis umquam committam ut siet. 450
ite sane nunciam omnes, et coqui et tibicinae,
etiam intro duce, si vis, vel gregem venalium,
coquite, facite, festinate nunciam, quantum libet.

(_aside_) By heaven, wherever I go this goes (_peering
under cloak_) too: I won't leave it there to run such risks,
never. (_to Congrio and