BLEPYRUS. And everything that used to be the men's concern has been given over to the women?
CHREMES. You express it exactly.
BLEPYRUS. Thus 'twill be my wife who will go to the Courts now in my stead.
CHREMES. And it will be she who will keep your children in your place.
BLEPYRUS. I shall no longer have to tire myself out with work from daybreak onwards?
CHREMES. No, 'twill be the women's business, and you can stop at home and take your ease.
BLEPYRUS. Well, what I fear for us fellows now is, that, holding the reins of government, they will forcibly compel us …
CHREMES. To do what?
BLEPYRUS. … to work them.
CHREMES. And if we are not able?