FIRST COUNTRYMAN. Perhaps they flee from some monster just come out of the sea?
MERCHANT. It is ever thus—always the great crowds surging through the streets.
[The Merchant goes.]
SECOND WAG (to Countrymen, winking aside at First Wag). This is your first visit to a city, I take it?
BOTH COUNTRYMEN (bowing). It is, good sirs.
FIRST WAG (winking aside at Second Wag). You know what happens to strangers in our city, of course?
FIRST COUNTRYMAN (anxiously). No, good sir.
SECOND COUNTRYMAN (anxiously). Pray tell us what it may be.
FIRST WAG. 'T is said they become so dazed by the noise of the city and the rush of such countless numbers, they forget who they are.
FIRST COUNTRYMAN. Eh? Forget who they are?