Cleom. Art thou sure

I live? Or am I in the regions of the dead,

And hear the fables there, myself a fable?

Panth. Go in, and see your chearful family

Eating his bread, brought in their last distress;

And, with a good mistaking piety,

First blessing him, then heaven.

Cleom. When I hear this, I have no need of food;

I am restored without it.

Clean. Then, now hear me;